Comics in Abortion

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

COLUMBUS, Ohio (BP) – Republican-led Ohio rejected an Aug. 8 ballot measure that would have made it more difficult for voters to codify abortion rights in the state constitution.

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — For the first time since Roe v. Wade was overturned, Texas women who were denied abortions testified in a court Wednesday (July 19) of carrying babies they knew would not survive and continuing pregnancies that put their health in worsening danger.