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“Six weeks is, quite simply, not a reasonable period of time,” the majority held, in an opinion authored by Justice Kaye Hearn. In January, South Carolina’s Supreme Court struck down the state’s six-week abortion ban as unconstitutional. The 3-2 majority explained that, while the state has the authority to impose …

Kierre Morgan has had an abortion, but it was the abortion she didn’t have that transformed her into an activist. She was 17 and in denial, at first, about being pregnant at all. Under Ohio law, she needed permission to terminate her pregnancy, and — after considering whether she could …

Demi Lovato stands on the frontlines in the battle for reproductive rights in the music video for the singer’s latest protest single “Swine.” To commemorate the one-year anniversary of the Supreme Court overturning Roe v. Wade, leaving millions with little to nothing left to shield and protect their bodily autonomy, …

While all eyes were on a federal courthouse in Miami this morning, House Republicans voted to prohibit offering life-saving abortion care to pregnant veterans — as well as to ban the pride flag from flying at Veterans Administration facilities. The vote came in the powerful Appropriations Committee, where 34 Republicans …

Republicans in the Wisconsin Legislature introduced a package of bills this week to “clarify” the state’s abortion ban, 174 years after it became law. The 1849 ban, which criminalizes abortionin every circumstance, except to save the pregnant person’s life, went back into effect last June after 50 years of obsolescence. …

For years, the stately two-story Tudor at 600 N. Logan Avenue in Danville, Illinois, was an ophthalmologist’s office, run by a cataract surgeon with a passion for raising Newfoundland dogs. The building was put up for sale when he retired in 2017, but it wasn’t until this year that a …

The South Carolina Senate voted Tuesday to ban abortion after around six weeks of pregnancy — before most people know they are pregnant — and sent the bill toRepublican Gov. Henry McMaster, who has said he will sign it. The measure was passed by a vote of 27 to 19, …

After multiple miscarriages, Kiersten Hogan thought she would never be able to carry a pregnancy to term. She’d nearly given up hope when in June 2021 she learned she was pregnant. But at just 19 weeks —days after Texas’ Senate Bill 8 went into effect — Hogan woke up at …

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis attended an anti-choice gala hosted by an extremely conservative Christian group and yet spent very little time talking about the issue of abortion during his speech. At the Florida Family Policy Council gala Saturday night, the Republican governor’s address lasted approximately 40 minutes, but only two …

North Carolina’s legislature passed a 12-week abortion ban in the state on Tuesday, overriding Democratic Governor Roy Cooper’s veto of the proposal earlier this week. The new law prohibits surgical abortions after 12 weeks of pregnancy, with an exception for rape or incest through 20 weeks, and for a “life-limiting …