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The Wisconsin Senate on Wednesday approved a package of Republican-authored bills designed to discourage abortion in the state.
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Read More »Biden team asks Supreme Court to pause Texas abortion law
The Biden administration is asking the Supreme Court to block the Texas law banning most abortions, while the fight over the measure's constitutionality plays out in the courts.
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Read More »Justice Department again presses to halt Texas abortion law
The Biden administration is again urging the courts to step in and suspend a new Texas law that has banned most abortions since early September, as clinics hundreds of miles away remain busy with Texas patients making long journeys to get care.
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Read More »Justices’ views on abortion in their own words and votes
Abortion already is dominating the Supreme Court's new term, months before the justices will decide whether to reverse decisions reaching back nearly 50 years. Not only is there Mississippi's call to overrule Roe v. Wade, but the court also soon will be asked again to weigh in on the Texas law banning abortion at roughly six weeks.
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Read More »Biden lifts abortion referral ban on family-planning clinics
The Biden administration reversed a ban on abortion referrals by family-planning clinics, lifting a Trump administration restriction as political and legal battles over abortion grow sharper from Texas to the U.S. Supreme Court.
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Read More »Abortion laws across the US (CHART)
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Read More »Senate Republicans approve ‘born alive’ legislation
The state Senate was set to vote Tuesday on a bill that would raise penalties for a child who is "born alive" during an abortion.
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Read More »Supreme Court sets arguments in big abortion case
The Supreme Court will hear arguments Dec. 1 in Mississippi's bid to have the landmark Roe v. Wade decision guaranteeing a woman's right to an abortion overturned.
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Read More »High court divides 5-4 to leave Texas abortion law in place
A deeply divided U.S. Supreme Court is allowing a Texas law that bans most abortions to remain in force, for now stripping most women of the right to an abortion in the nation's second-largest state.
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Read More »With abortion heading back to the Supreme Court, is it time to retire the ‘my body, my choice’ slogan?
One of the blockbuster cases the U.S. Supreme Court will hear in its upcoming session is a challenge to Mississippi's 15-week abortion ban.
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Read More »Kaul to seek permission to drop multistate abortion lawsuit
Democratic Attorney General Josh Kaul will try to persuade Republicans on the Legislature's budget committee on Thursday to let him join a multistate decision to drop a lawsuit challenging Trump administration obstacles to abortion.
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Read More »Republicans, UW clash over abortion ban proposal
Republican legislators sparred with University of Wisconsin medical school officials Wednesday over a bill that would end an arrangement that allows UW doctors to train on abortion procedures at a Planned Parenthood clinic.
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Read More »Republicans, UW clash over abortion ban proposal
Republican legislators sparred with University of Wisconsin medical school officials Wednesday over a bill that would end an arrangement that allows UW doctors to train on abortion procedures at a Planned Parenthood clinic.
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Read More »Supreme Court throws abortion fight into center of midterms
In agreeing to hear a potentially groundbreaking abortion case, the Supreme Court has energized activists on both sides of the long-running debate who are now girding to make abortion access a major issue in next year's midterm elections.
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Read More »Supreme Court to weigh rollback of abortion rights
The U.S. Supreme Court agreed Monday to consider a major rollback of abortion rights, saying it will decide whether states can ban abortions before a fetus can survive outside the womb.
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Read More »3 key Trump policies teed up for Supreme Court action
Trump administration policies on the census, asylum seekers and the border wall, held illegal by lower courts, are on the Supreme Court's agenda on Friday.
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Read More »Health care is focus as Barrett Supreme Court hearing opens
Senate Democrats branded Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett a threat to Americans' health care during the coronavirus pandemic Monday at the start of a fast-tracked hearing that Republicans are confident will end with Barrett's confirmation to replace the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg before Election Day.
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Read More »Scalia ‘heir’ Barrett may be open to reversing Roe v. Wade
President Donald Trump's nominee to the Supreme Court has expressed unease with some landmark rulings, including ones that established a right to abortion, and has suggested in her academic writing that she may be willing to reconsider those decisions.
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Read More »High court won’t hear abortion clinic ‘buffer zone’ cases
The Supreme Court on Thursday turned away pleas from anti-abortion activists to make it easier for them to protest outside clinics, declining to wade back into the abortion debate just days after striking down a Louisiana law regulating abortion clinics.
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Read More »Roberts a pivotal vote in the Supreme Court’s big opinions
The biggest cases of the Supreme Court term so far have a surprising common thread.
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Read More »Supreme Court strikes down Louisiana abortion clinic law
A divided Supreme Court on Monday struck down a Louisiana law regulating abortion clinics, reasserting a commitment to abortion rights over fierce opposition from dissenting conservative justices in the first big abortion case of the Trump era.
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Read More »US appeals court upholds Trump rules involving abortions
A U.S. appeals court on Monday upheld Trump administration changes that include additional hurdles for those seeking abortions through a federal program that helps low-income women.
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Read More »Appeals court says GOP can’t join Wisconsin abortion lawsuit
A federal appeals court has affirmed a lower court ruling that Republican state lawmakers can't intervene in a Planned Parenthood lawsuit challenging certain Wisconsin abortion restrictions.
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Read More »Assembly passes bill expanding birth control
The Republican-controlled state Assembly has passed a bill opposed by anti-abortion groups that would provide more access to birth control.
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Read More »Assembly weighs expanding birth control access for 18 and up
The Republican-controlled state Assembly is expected to pass a bill opposed by anti-abortion groups that would broaden birth control access.
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Read More »Wisconsin Republicans renew bill to ban fetal-tissue research
Wisconsin Republicans are renewing their attempt to ban the use of aborted fetal tissue for research or any other purpose.
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Read More »Evers vetoes 4 abortion bills
Gov. Tony Evers has vetoed four abortion bills passed by the Republican-controlled Legislature.
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Read More »Wisconsin Legislature to send abortion bills to governor
Wisconsin's Republican-controlled Legislature was poised Wednesday to send four anti-abortion bills to Democratic Gov. Tony Evers, who has vowed to veto all of them.
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Read More »Wisconsin Assembly poised to approve ‘born alive’ bill
The Wisconsin Assembly is poised to pass a so-called "born alive" anti-abortion bill passed in other states that President Donald Trump has touted.
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Read More »Wisconsin committee signs off on anti-abortion bills
The state Assembly Health Committee has approved a series of anti-abortion bills, setting up a floor vote next week.
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