What to Know About Abortion in Arizona Under the Near-Total 1864 Ban
The Arizona Supreme Court delivered a landmark decision in giving the go-ahead to enforce a long-dormant law that bans nearly all abortions.
The Arizona Supreme Court delivered a landmark decision in giving the go-ahead to enforce a long-dormant law that bans nearly all abortions.
For anti-abortion Christians, former President Donald Trump delivered in four years what no other Republican before him had.
Laws banning abortions after six-weeks of pregnancy like Mississippi’s so-called fetal “heartbeat” law are “a terrible mistake,” former President Donald Trump said over the weekend.
A 13-year-old rape victim from Cleveland, Miss., who had no access to safe and legal abortion care in the state, gave birth around Aug. 14.
Mississippi Sen. Chris McDaniel’s claim that Lt. Gov. Delbert Hosemann once led a Jackson abortion clinic is “totally false and has been rejected by every pro-life organization which has investigated it,” the incumbent’s campaign said in a statement to the Mississippi Free Press.
Mississippi authorities need access to information about residents who obtain abortions or gender-affirming care in other states, Attorney General Lynn Fitch told the Biden administration in a June 16 letter.
Mississippians are “all worse off” a year after Mississippi Attorney General Lynn Fitch’s office succeeded in convincing the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn federal protections for abortion rights in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, her opponent said in a statement ahead of the anniversary.
Mississippi’s two highest-ranking women leaders, U.S. Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith and Mississippi Attorney General Lynn Fitch, rejoiced over the weekend after a Texas federal judge blocked the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s approval of the abortion pill mifepristone.
New moms who cannot afford private insurance will be eligible for a year of postpartum Medicaid coverage starting in July after Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves signed Senate Bill 2212 into law without fanfare today.
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