Federal court strikes down Texas ban on second trimester abortion procedure
The US District Court for the Western District of Texas struck down as unconstitutional Texas SB 8 , which effectively banned the country's most commonly used procedure of second trimester abortion known as "dilation and...
JURIST Guest Columnist Kermit Roosevelt of the University of Pennsylvania Law School discusses abortion rights in America ...In 1973, over 40 years ago now, the US Supreme Court entered the abortion fray in Roe v. Wade. Roe offered the nation...
Restrictions on Public Funding of Abortion Although the Supreme Court guaranteed women's constitutional right to have medical access to abortion in Roe, Congress has increasingly restricted federal funding of abortion services, most notably through the Hyde Amendment. Passed as part...
Fourth Circuit ruling on late-term abortion highlights women's health as priority
Courtney E. Jones : "Planned Parenthood Advocates of Virginia welcomes the US Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals' decision to strike down Virginia's burdensome ban on late-term abortions. The Court stated that the onerous 2003...
JURIST Guest Columnist Richard Garnett of the University of Chicago Law School says that alleging that the Catholic judges in the majority in the Carhart partial birth abortion case failed to respect a fundamental difference between religious belief and morality...
JURIST Guest Columnist Elizabeth Price Foley of Florida International University College of Law says that President Bush's veto of stem cell research legislation is an abuse of his constitutional authority antithetical to the rulings of the US Supreme Court... For...
Appeals court refuses rehearing of Virginia late-term abortion case
The US Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals Friday refused a request by Virginia Attorney General Judy Jagdmann to have the full court rehear a June ruling by a three-judge panel striking down Virginia's...
