Abortion rights roundup: August 3, 2023
The latest news impacting reproductive rights around the country.
By Rebekah Sager - August 03, 2023The latest news impacting reproductive rights around the country.
By Rebekah Sager - August 03, 2023Planned Parenthood has vowed to be 'courageous in the courts, and in our clinics.'
By Rebekah Sager - August 01, 2023When former Indiana Gov. Mike Pence signed a religious freedom bill into law, he probably never imagined it would be used as an argument against the state's future abortion ban.
By Rebekah Sager - June 13, 2023A county judge issued a temporary restraining order against Missouri’s Republican Attorney General preventing his emergency order from going into effect for at least another two weeks.
By Associated Press - May 02, 2023This is at least the third bill targeting transgender youth signed into law under Gov. Kevin Stitt.
By Associated Press - May 02, 2023Abortion rights advocates warn that Virginia could soon see the same kind of near-total abortion ban just enacted in Florida if Republicans win full control of the General Assembly.
By Josh Israel - April 17, 2023The 'emergency regulation' issued by Andrew Bailey adds several hurdles patients must get past if they’re seeking gender-affirming care, including being screened for 'social contagion.'
By Will Fritz - April 14, 2023Indiana’s law mandates trans youth stop receiving medication before 2024. Idaho’s law makes providing gender-affirming health care a felony.
By Associated Press - April 06, 2023Arkansas’ 2021 legislation outlawing gender-affirming care is just one of several anti-transgender laws around the country that courts have blocked or scrutinized.
By Associated Press - August 26, 2022Nearly one in six Michigan women between the ages of 15 and 44 had an induced abortion in 2020.
By Kaishi Chhabra - May 10, 2022‘I am relieved that we are moving out of state and filled with anxiety for everyone who can’t escape this nightmare,’ one parent said.
By Casey Quinlan - March 03, 2022Texas Gov. Greg Abbott and Attorney General Ken Paxton are targeting trans kids and their families.
By Casey Quinlan - February 28, 2022Two decades out, harmful and discriminatory practices remain and draw upon defunct databases for prejudicial policing, experts say.
By Josh Axelrod - September 15, 2021A 14-year-old Kansas student was punished by her school in January for saying she was a lesbian.
By Casey Quinlan - August 02, 2021The Texas Legislature is considering bills banning trans student athletes from sports teams.
By Casey Quinlan - July 13, 2021Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is running for reelection as ‘conservative, stalwart leader with a deep passion and respect for our U.S. Constitution.’
By Josh Israel - July 12, 2021The Biden administration’s Family Reunification Task Force has identified 3,913 children so far.
By Associated Press - June 08, 2021Democrats are eager to turn the page on the Trump administration, especially when it comes to judges.
By Associated Press - June 07, 2021The ACLU is suing to overturn a new state law that bans gender-affirming health care.
By Casey Quinlan - May 26, 2021The Biden administration believes more than 1,000 families remain separated.
By Associated Press - May 03, 2021‘The myth of voter fraud is frequently used to target communities of color to delegitimize their vote,’ said Common Cause Texas.
By Emily Singer - April 08, 2021The bill is in response to the racial justice protests sparked by the murder of Breonna Taylor.
By Emily Singer - March 12, 2021‘It was complete chaos and no one seemed to know the answers,’ one female inmate told the American Independent Foundation.
By Tana Ganeva - October 31, 2020The Trump administration’s foot-dragging has made it even tougher to reunite families, experts say.
By Associated Press - October 23, 2020If used, the heat ray would have made demonstrators’ skin feel as though it were on fire.
By Emily Singer - September 17, 2020Many of the lawsuits deal with immigrant rights, targeting the family separation policy, detention and deportation practices, and asylum policies.
By Associated Press - August 08, 2020Republicans are attacking the safest way to get an abortion during the pandemic.
By Lisa Needham - August 07, 2020The federal government argued that journalists must disperse when an illegal assembly is declared.
By Associated Press - July 24, 2020The Supreme Court ruled on workplace equality and an administration move against DACA.
By Casey Quinlan - June 23, 2020A civil liberties lawyer says the suit is ‘doomed to fail.’
By Associated Press - June 17, 2020