The Latest Breaking News from Abortion

The federal government recently announced its intention to amend the Expungement of Historically Unjust Convictions Act to expand the list of offences Canadians can apply to have struck from their criminal records. The list now includes abortion-related offences and indecent acts in a bawdy house.

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During a four-hour hearing last week that could eliminate nationwide access to a common and widely used abortion pill, federal Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk, of the Northern District of Texas, signaled his conservative Christian beliefs early and often.

Near-total ban on abortions is driving doctors away, hospital says, leading to lack of nearby labor and delivery care for thousands

A nominee's work defending a state parental-notification law in 2005 may be a stumbling block to his confirmation.

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Anti-abortion advocates are trying to revive the long-dormant 1873 Comstock Act, which banned mailing of anything related to abortion or contraception, in a lawsuit about mifepristone, an abortion-inducing drug.

Efforts to criminalize abortion care have spread across the country

One of President Joe Biden’s nominees to a federal appeals court has generated rare concern from some Democrats and outside groups

I always get worried in a committee hearing when a member of the state Legislature presenting a bill doesn’t seem to know exactly what he or she is talking about.

The strictest abortion law in the US doesn’t allow exceptions for medical emergencies – and efforts to change it face powerful opposition from the right