The Latest Breaking News from Abortion

BOISE, Idaho — A new Idaho bill would withhold tax money from local governments that defy the state’s abortion ban.

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GOP Rep. Nancy Mace said the party should focus on access to birth control and the nationwide rape kit backlog

In early January 2023, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration modified its rules for mifepristone, a drug used for medication abortion, allowing it to be offered with a prescription by certified pharmacies. Before this rule change, mifepristone could be dispensed only in person by providers at hospitals, clinics and medical…

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — Gov. J.B. Pritzker signed into law Tuesday night a comprehensive measure that supporters called one of the nation’s toughest bans on military style firearms, immediately prohibiting their sale and giving current owners until Jan. 1 to register gun serial numbers with Illinois State Police.

The plaintiff is represented by a group created by former Trump adviser Stephen Miller and former Texas Solicitor General Jonathan Mitchell, the architect of the state’s six-week abortion ban.

Illinois lawmakers are working during the last day of their lame duck session on a measure that would secure access to reproductive health care

South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem called Tuesday for using the state’s surplus to eliminate the tax charged on groceries and lower other taxes in a State of the State address that notably steered clear of the hot-button topic of abortion

On Jan. 5, 2023, the South Carolina Supreme Court ruled 3-2 that the state’s abortion ban was unconstitutional.

It is timely that the 2022 Nobel Prize for Literature went to French writer Annie Ernaux.

Plus: House votes to rescind IRS funding, the FDA is putting unnecessary strings on pharmacies filling abortion pill prescriptions, and more...