Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs shot down more than a dozen bills on Friday, including GOP-backed attempts to codify fetal personhood into state law, conspiracy-fueled election bills and attempts to restrict gubernatorial power. Read more»
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The appeals court’s panel appeared to be persuaded not by the medical consensus in the federal lawsuit asking the FDA to revoke its 23-year-old approval of mifepristone, but by some of the evidence that consists largely of anecdotes, speculation, and cherry-picked studies. Read more»
Republicans at a U.S. House hearing aired frustration with the Department of Justice this week for what they contended is a lack of enforcement of a Clinton-era law that protects access to reproductive health care at anti-abortion pregnancy centers and abortion clinics. Read more»
Three conservative judges with a history of rulings restricting abortion access signaled they will side with a group of doctors challenging the approval of an abortion drug.
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Former President Donald Trump’s town hall event felt like a lightning round of false and misleading claims — most of which we’ve heard before - on voter fraud, immigration, classified documents and more. Read more»
The anti-abortion doctor attempting to restore Arizona’s near-total abortion ban has no legal standing in the case and his petition should be rejected by the court, according to Democratic Attorney General Kris Mayes. Read more»
As legal battles continue over the FDA approval of abortion drug mifepristone, Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes joined 22 other states and the District of Columbia in filing an amicus brief that urged the court to preserve access to the medication. Read more»
Abortion foes’ post-Dobbs strategy has been even more sprawling than state-level bans and restrictions; anti-abortion activists have flooded state legislatures and city governments with proposals to criminalize pregnancy termination or to add burdensome regulations. Read more»
A recent New Mexico law prohibiting public entities from interfering with reproductive and gender care access is the latest challenge to abortion access to lean on the Comstock Act of 1873, and recent court rulings in the abortion pill case suggest the dormant law can be applied today. Read more»
The Supreme Court on Friday stopped new restrictions on mifepristone from going into effect and limiting access to the procedure nationwide, a pause on lower court rulings restricting the use of the popular abortion pill that will stay in place while the appeal proceeds. Read more»
The Supreme Court extended its pause on restrictions to a popular abortion pill until Friday, giving the justices more time to act on the controversial case that could restrict abortion access nationwide. Read more»
Los proveedores de atención médica de Arizona confían en que podrán continuar brindando abortos seguros, incluso cuando los tribunales se enredan por una orden que podría detener la distribución de un medicamento clave para el aborto. Read more»
The Supreme Court intervened Friday to ensure that medication abortion remains available to the public without restrictions while a legal battle plays out in the lower courts. Read more»
Arizona health care providers are confident they will be able to continue providing safe abortions, even as courts tangle over an order that could halt distribution of a key abortion medication. Read more»
The U.S. Justice Department announced Thursday it will ask the Supreme Court on an emergency basis to keep access to the abortion medication mifepristone exactly as it is now, amid the appeals process in a much-watched case out of Texas. Read more»
A group of 69 congressional Republicans is backing a federal judge’s ruling that would overturn the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s two-decade-old approval of the abortion pill mifepristone. Read more»