Republicans, from Trump to Mark Robinson, have been running away from their anti-choice records, hoping voters will overlook their controversial stance against reproductive rights.
States with highly restrictive abortion bans have seen a significant drop in prescriptions for birth control and emergency contraception, according to a new national study.
The laws for obtaining mifepristone, medication to terminate a pregnancy, in North Carolina are changing.
The National Democratic Redistricting Committee, a group that fights for fair legislative maps, and Planned Parenthood Votes, the health care organization’s political arm, are teaming up to invest in state supreme court races in North Carolina as well as Arizona, Michigan, Montana, Ohio, and Texas. The groups plan to spend $5 million across the states to fund digital ads, canvassing operations, and get-out-the-vote efforts, they announced earlier this month.
On the anniversary of the Republican-led state legislature voting to increase restrictions on abortion in North Carolina, groups opposed to the ban held a press conference to underscore the measure’s impact.
Some of North Carolina government’s restrictions on dispensing abortion pills, such as requiring that doctors prescribe and provide the drug to the patient in person, are unlawful, a judge ruled on Tuesday.
The North Carolina General Assembly’s short session officially began on April 24, with big budget ticket issues at the top of mind.
The Biden administration announced new regulations this April to strengthen privacy protections for abortion patients and health care providers.
The Florida Supreme Court issued a ruling this month allowing a six-week abortion ban to go into effect starting May 1. The extremely restrictive law – which bans abortion at a stage when many women do not even know they are pregnant – will have a wide-ranging impact not just on Florida, but the entire South.
North Carolina Attorney General Josh Stein filed a friend-of-the-court brief along with a coalition of 24 other attorneys general at the end of March, imploring the U.S. Supreme Court to uphold a ruling that requires Idaho hospitals to provide emergency abortion care.