Lack of restrictions on abortion-related travel and gender transition surgeries in national defense funding disappointing, ERLC says
WASHINGTON (BP) – The Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission is lamenting the exclusion of any restrictions on abortion-related travel and gender transition surgeries in the recently passed 2024 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA).
Supreme Court will rule on limits on abortion pill
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court agreed on Wednesday (Dec. 13) to take up a dispute over a medication used in the most common method of abortion in the United States, its first abortion case since it overturned Roe v. Wade last year.
New lawsuits challenge abortion access amid changing legal landscape
AUSTIN, Texas (BP) – Current lawsuits by expectant mothers in Texas and Kentucky highlight the complex legal landscape of abortion across the nation. A mother’s address sometimes impacts whether an unborn child is carried to term.
CDC report: More than 625K U.S. lives lost to abortion in 2021
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (BP) – In 2021, 625,978 legal abortions were reported to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The information was provided by central health agencies for 46 states, the District of Columbia and New York City, yielding a patchwork picture of lives lost to abortion in the United States.
ERLC urges revision of proposed regulation facilitating abortions, gender transitions for unaccompanied minors
NASHVILLE (BP) – The Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission has released a letter urging the Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) to reconsider and revise a recently proposed regulation which the ERLC believes will aid in facilitating abortions and gender transitions for unaccompanied minors.
Ohioans codify abortion rights and legalize marijuana
COLUMBUS, Ohio (BP) -- Ohioans codified abortion rights and legalized marijuana for adults Nov. 7, all in a state with a Republican governor and Republican legislative supermajority.
Mailbox chemical abortions escape pro-life, safety oversights
NASHVILLE (BP) – Women in states that have outlawed abortion are ordering abortion pills through the mail from out-of-state doctors and oftentimes foreign countries, according to news reports.
Mexico ends its federal ban on abortion, but a patchwork of state restrictions remains
MEXICO CITY (AP) — A Mexican Supreme Court decision to end the federal ban on abortion extended a regional trend of increasing access to the procedure, but left in place a patchwork of varying state restrictions.
South Carolina Supreme Court OKs heartbeat abortion ban, reversing course
COLUMBIA, S.C. (BP) – South Carolina’s Supreme Court upheld the state’s latest fetal heartbeat abortion ban Aug. 23, although the court in January struck down a previous and nearly identical version of the ban.
FDA erred in easing access to abortion pill, appeals court rules
NEW ORLEANS (BP) -- The Food and Drug Administration erred in easing access to the so-called abortion pill, a federal appeals court ruled Aug. 16 in a decision that will have no impact unless the U.S. Supreme Court agrees.
