Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill and the attorneys general in Arkansas and Alabama filed a lawsuit Tuesday in the U.S. Supreme Court, suing California, Massachusetts and New York to invalidate the so-called “shield laws” that have allowed providers in those states to send abortion medication to people in states with abortion bans. The state officials, all Republicans…
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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has launched a study that purports to examine the safety of the widely used abortion medication mifepristone, a move that critics say could be used as a means to further regulate the drug and restrict abortion access. FDA administrators deny that the study, revealed in a Wall Street Journal report late last week, is new, asserting it has been going…
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Some Republican lawmakers have routinely proposed criminally prosecuting women for getting abortions since the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, despite bipartisan condemnation and criticism from national anti-abortion organizations. These bills never made it to the finish line, but they keep circulating in legislatures across the country. So-called “abortion abolitionists” who…
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