Nearly two years after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, litigation over abortion has surged dramatically. In 2022, Justice Samuel Alito wrote in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization that the court’s longstanding precedent had intensified debate and deepened division. He stated it was time to remove the abortion issue from the court’s…
On Thursday, the Louisiana Senate approved a bill that will make the state the first in the U.S. to reclassify two abortion-inducing drugs as controlled substances with potential for abuse or addiction. This bill, which now goes to Governor Jeff Landry, would criminalize the unprescribed possession of the abortion pills mifepristone and misoprostol, punishable by…
Former President Donald Trump asserted that individual states, rather than implementing a nationwide ban, should decide on abortion rights. This announcement, made on Monday, reflects a departure from the desires of many within his own Republican Party, who had hoped for Trump’s endorsement of a nationwide ban on abortions after 15 weeks of pregnancy. Trump…
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