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Any day now, the Court could protect abortion rights — or open the floodgates for more restrictions.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court agreed Monday to a showdown over abortion in a case that could dramatically alter nearly 50 years of rulings on abortion rights. With three justices appointed by President Donald Trump part of a 6-3 conservative majority, the court is taking on a case about whether states can ban abortions before a fetus can survive outside the womb.

The Supreme Court has ended the nation's constitutional protections for abortion that had been in place nearly 50 years in a decision by its conservative majority to overturn Roe v. Wade.

Senate Democrats on Wednesday accused the U.S. Supreme Court of abusing its "shadow docket" process for considering emergency actions to deliver conservatives major wins on cases involving broad social and political issues without public deliberation.

The cases addressed Trump’s broadening of religious exemptions for providing birth control in the Affordable Care Act

Move by president signals start of White House fightback after supreme court struck down Roe v Wade

The U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday officially denied an emergency request from abortion providers to block a controversial Texas law that bans abortions after six weeks, before many women know that they are pregnant.

Abortion rights advocates warn of a threat to the landmark 1973 precedent.

JACKSON — For eight years, Derenda Hancock has ushered women from their cars to the doors of Mississippi’s only abortion clinic, donning a rainbow vest as she…

A warrior for reproductive rights, Julie Rikelman ’97 has taken the fight for access to abortion to the Supreme Court and won.

WASHINGTON (AP) — In the biggest challenge to abortion rights in decades, the Supreme Court’s conservative majority on Wednesday signaled they would allow states to ban abortion much earlier in pregnancy and may even overturn the nationwide right that has existed for nearly 50 years.

A Louisiana suit threatens to unravel dozens of cases nationwide by blocking abortion providers from challenging restrictions on behalf of their patients.

In the latest setback for abortion clinics in Texas, Justice Neil Gorsuch said Thursday that a conservative federal appeals court should handle the next steps of litigation concerning the state's six-week ban, a move that will likely leave women seeking abortions in the state in legal limbo for weeks if not months.

The Trump administration has already offered the eight-member court an opportunity to restrict abortion access amid the pandemic.

Abortion clinics in Louisiana will remain open after high court strikes down a law that would have forced most to close Today, the U.S. Supreme Court

The Supreme Court’s decisions this term on reproductive health are a reminder of the need for proactive policies that protect reproductive rights.

President Joe Biden on Thursday said he’s launching a “complete-of-authorities effort,” consisting of the White residence counsel, to fight a strict new Texas abortion regulation after a single-day court decision allowed it to stand. Biden, a Democrat and a Catholic who has shifted to the left on abortion in recent years to be more in …

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WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department said Monday that it will not tolerate violence against anyone who is trying to obtain an abortion in Texas as federal officials explore options to challenge a new state law that bans most abortions .

The US Food and Drug Administration announced Thursday that it is lifting a requirement that patients seeking medication abortion had to pick up the medication in-person, instead allowing pills to be sent by mail.

President Joe Biden announced a major opinion Friday that the Equal Rights Amendment is ratified, enshrining its protections into the Constitution, a last-minute move that some believe could pave the way to bolstering reproductive rights.

At the Women’s Plaza of Honor of the U of A, 10 women are standing together for the first official photo of their media outlet team. They gathered around its two founders.  Caitlin Schmidt and Susan Barnett are seasoned journalists who saw an opportunity to build something new after their own disillusionment with the declining...

New Census Bureau data shows women are making 82.7 cents per every dollar a man makes. The gap is even wider for most women of color.

Marginalised communities have long fought to preserve their own stories and provide an alternative to the Eurocentric, colonial archive

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Women reported fewer promotions and fewer salary increases amid a tightening economy and slashed budgets.

Special Operations vet Jeff Tiegs runs Skull Games, where evangelical Christians use internet surveillance to locate and bust sex workers.

The latest vote comes a century after the Equal Rights Amendment was first introduced in Congress.

A Bay Ridge activist on anti-Muslim sentiment, the death of Eric Garner, and the fight to change Brooklyn for the better. Interview by John Surico

GOP Sens. Susan Collins of Maine, Lisa Murkowski of Alaska and Mitt Romney of Utah joined every Democrat in voting for her confirmation to the court.