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The US Supreme Court on Thursday vacated three orders issued by lower courts in Arizona, Indiana, and Arkansas that had invalidated state-level abortion on the grounds of Roe v. Wade. This follows the Supreme Court’s overturning of Roe last Friday. The now-vacated Arizona ruling had stopped a state law that criminalized abortions performed on fetuses with non-lethal [...]

Abortion policy is now in the hands of the states following the US Supreme Court’s Friday decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, which overturned Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood v. Casey. President Joe Biden has directed the Department of Health and Human Services to take steps to make sure abortion and contraception [...]

The Oklahoma legislature on Thursday passed its third major abortion-ban law in a little over a month. HB 4327 bans abortions starting at fertilization except in cases of medical emergency, incest, or sexual assault. However the incest and sexual assault exceptions apply only if those incidents were reported to law enforcement.  Modeled after Texas’s abortion ban, [...]

Last week, Louisiana made headlines by proposing a bill that would make abortion a homicide and explicitly allow pregnant people to be charged with murder. While the bill ultimately failed to advance in the Louisiana House of Representatives, it’s important to know that many states already have laws on the books that could result in [...]

Arizona authorities Wednesday executed Clarence Dixon for the 1978 rape and murder of an Arizona State University student despite Dixon’s lawyers’ attempts to halt the execution. Dixon’s execution was Arizona’s first since 2014. On Tuesday the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit upheld District Judge Diane Humetewa’s decision to deny Dixon’s petition for habeas [...]

Connecticut Governor Ned Lamont Tuesday attended a ceremonial signing of House Bill 5414, the Reproductive Freedom Defense Act (RFDA). RFDA, which Lamont officially signed into law on May 5, provides significant protections to individuals providing or seeking abortions in Connecticut from restrictive abortion laws in other states. The bill includes the following protections: Expands which [...]

A federal judge Thursday temporarily blocked a new Kentucky abortion law from being enforced by state officials. HB 3 went into effect last week after the Kentucky legislature overturned Governor Andy Beshear’s veto of the bill. The bill is modeled after a Mississippi law that is currently under consideration by the US Supreme Court. HB [...]

Planned Parenthood and the American Civil Liberties Union filed separate lawsuits Thursday to block a Kentucky law that effectively bans abortion in the state. The organizations filed their lawsuits a day after the Republican-led state legislature overrode Democratic Governor Andy Beshear’s veto of House Bill 3. Because of the numerous requirements enacted by the bill, [...]

Kentucky lawmakers Wednesday enacted a law suspending all statewide legal abortion access. Effective immediately, House Bill 3 will force providers to stop offering abortions in clinics and will halt all abortion services until certain requirements are met. Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear vetoed the bill last week, but his veto was quickly overturned by the Republican-led Kentucky [...]

Led by Florida Republican governor Ron DeSantis, twenty-one states filed a lawsuit Tuesday against the Center for Disease Control’s public transportation mask mandate. The current CDC order, in place since February of last year, requires those traveling on “conveyances” within the United States, including airplanes, trains, and buses, to wear a mask. It also requires [...]