Arizona Republicans again block effort to repeal abortion ban – CBS News Watch CBS News For the second time, Republicans in the Arizona Legislature thwarted an effort to repeal the state’s 1864 abortion law, which was upheld last week by the state Supreme Court. This comes despite high-profile Republicans like former President Donald Trump saying … Read more
Amanda Zurawski was lying in a hospital bed. She had lost her baby 18 weeks into her pregnancy and then nearly died twice because of Texas’s further tightening of antiabortion laws. The room’s TV set was malfunctioning, stuck on a news channel featuring coverage of the law that had taken effect days earlier and landed … Read more
Trump takes credit for Roe v. Wade reversal; says states should decide abortion laws – CBS News Watch CBS News Former President Donald Trump took credit on Monday for ending the constitutional right to abortion but said the issue is now up to the states. CBS News senior White House correspondent Weijia Jiang has more. … Read more
On Thursday, the Supreme Court heard arguments in a case that could reinstate restrictions on the abortion pill mifepristone, the first time abortion rights returned to the justices since the court overturned Roe v. Wade in 2022. During the arguments, conservative justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito repeatedly invoked the Comstock Act. What is the … Read more
Biden’s State of the Union points on abortion – CBS News Watch CBS News Reproductive rights were a big focus during his State of the Union with women in the Democratic Party wearing white to the event in solidarity and President Biden vowing to restore Roe v. Wade as the law of the land if … Read more
The number of abortions performed each month in the United States is about the same as before the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade and the nationwide right to abortion more than a year and a half ago, a new report finds. The latest edition of the #WeCount report conducted for the Society of … Read more
CHICAGO — The recent ruling in Alabama that frozen embryos are legally considered children created a political firestorm after the decision halted treatment for many couples seeking to have families through fertility treatments. It also has turned the spotlight on the importance of institutions that are poised to play a central in this year’s elections: … Read more
In September 2021, Texas governor Greg Abbott boldly claimed that his state’s barbaric abortion law, which banned the procedure after six weeks of pregnancy with no exceptions for incest or rape, was not actually as bad as it sounded because he was going to “eliminate” rape. “Rape is a crime and Texas will work tirelessly … Read more
The moment Ruth Bader Ginsburg died, I knew Roe’s days were numbered. Sometime in 2019, a conservative friend texted me that Donald Trump was saving Amy Coney Barrett for when RBG dies. Sure enough, Trump tapped Coney Barrett shortly after trailblazing justice’s death, with Mitch McConnell steamrolling the nomination through the Senate just ahead of … Read more
The Texas Supreme Court temporarily halted a district court order on Friday that would have allowed a Texas woman carrying a fetus with a fatal condition to obtain an abortion, following a request from state’s Attorney General Ken Paxton. Kate Cox, 31, a mother of two young children in the Dallas area, is 20 weeks … Read more
