The Food and Drug Administration said Thursday that it would permanently remove a key restriction on medication used to terminate pregnancies, allowing so-called “abortion pills” to be available by mail and prescribed through telehealth medical consultations. The FDA had temporarily allowed the medication
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Biden Administration Permanently Lifts Restrictions on Abortion Pills
The FDA headquarters in White Oak, Md., August 29, 2020. (Andrew Kelly/Reuters) The Biden administration on Thursday permanently rescinded rules requiring women to obtain abortion drugs in-person, allowing patients to receive pills by mail instead of via specially certified health
Supreme Court Allows Challenge to Texas Abortion Law to Proceed
Anti-abortion prortestors demonstrate outside the United States Supreme Court as the court hears arguments over a challenge to a Texas law that bans abortion after six weeks in Washington, D.C., November 1, 2021. (Evelyn Hockstein/Reuters) The Supreme Court handed abortion
State Lawmakers, Activists Prepare to Make California a ‘Sanctuary State’ for Abortion
A demonstrator shouts during a counter demonstration at the Ninth Annual Walk for Life West Coast in San Francisco, Calif., in 2013. (Stephen Lam/Reuters) Anticipating a reversal in the Supreme Court’s abortion jurisprudence, pro-abortion clinics, activists and lawmakers in California
Justice Sotomayor Is Wrong about Abortion and Religion
To suggest that religion alone provides the source for addressing life’s beginnings is false. NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE H ow do we as a body politic know when human life begins? And, where is it appropriate for the law to look
The Best Exchanges from the Supreme Court’s Abortion Argument
What a close reading of the oral argument in Dobbs reveals. Source link
Pelosi Says Favorable Ruling for Mississippi Abortion Law Will Erode Supreme Court’s ‘Legitimacy’
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) speaks during a news conference following the passage of the Build Back Better Act at the U.S. Capitol, in Washington, D.C. November 19, 2021. (Al Drago/Reuters) As the Supreme Court convened Wednesday to hear oral arguments
Some Friendly Advice on Abortion and Judicial Activism
Judge Henry J. Friendly of the Second Circuit offered some prescient thoughts on abortion and the law in a 1970 opinion. NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE W ith oral argument approaching this week in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, it is
Catholic Bishops Set to Vote on Communion Guidelines That Could Exclude Biden, Other Abortion Proponents
(wideonet/Getty Images) The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) is set to vote this week on draft guidelines clarifying the meaning of Communion that could prohibit Catholics who express support for abortion — such as President Joe Biden and House
Supreme Court Agrees to Hear Challenges to Texas Abortion Law
The Supreme Court Building in Washington D.C., August 5, 2021 (Brent Buterbaugh/National Review) The Supreme Court on Friday declined to immediately block Texas’s heartbeat abortion law, which allows private citizens to sue providers who perform abortions after a heartbeat can
Supreme Court Again Refuses to Block Texas Abortion Law
The majority wrote that its ruling “in no way limits other procedurally proper challenges to the Texas law, including in Texas state courts.” Officials in Texas have said that providers can challenge the law by violating it, getting sued and
Texas Abortion Law to Remain in Effect, Federal Appeals Court Rules
Texas State Capitol in Austin. (CrackerClips/Getty Images) The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit said Thursday it will allow Texas’s heartbeat abortion law, which allows private citizens to sue providers who perform abortions after a fetal heartbeat can
Texas abortion ban resumes: Patients, providers face whiplash
Texas’ restrictive abortion law is again in effect — for now — after a Friday order. It’s the latest twist in a dizzying legal saga that advocates say is having “devastating effects” on providers and patients in the state. Nearly all abortions were
Oklahoma Judge Blocks Abortion Laws Including Measure Similar to Texas Heartbeat Ban
(Kuzma/iStock/Getty Images Plus) An Oklahoma judge on Monday temporarily blocked two new abortion laws that were set to take effect next month, including a measure similar to Texas’ heartbeat abortion law. District Judge Cindy Truong said the two laws, which
Biden Admin Revokes Ban on Abortion Referrals from Federally Funded Clinics
Pro-choice activists at a “Stop Abortion Bans Day of Action” rally hosted by the Tennessee chapter of Planned Parenthood in Memphis, Tenn., May 21, 2019. (Karen Pulfer Focht/Reuters) The Biden administration has revoked a rule that barred health-care clinics that