abortion access

The court may decide whether a particular challenge to Texas' Senate Bill 8, also known as the Texas Heartbeat Act, has a path forward.

Texas' highest civil court is set to hear and rule on cases dealing with several hot-button issues, including hemp, gender-affirming care and the state's ban on abortions after detection of cardiac activity.

The newly released state data shows it’s the second consecutive year abortions in Kansas have exceeded annual numbers prior to 2022, when the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade.

Seeking to pull mifepristone from the drug market, the states argued that the FDA did not properly evaluate the pill's safety and effectiveness.

The study looks at abortions received by Texans both in state and out-of-state in the months after Senate Bill 8, a roughly six-week abortion ban, became law in 2021.

This comes after the agency's board requested clarity on the executive order driving the policy.

Board members are seeking clarity on the executive order that encouraged the proposed rule.

Texas' Planned Parenthood has lost half its clinics, but they continue to see thousands of patients a year.

The Oklahoma Health Care Authority Board voted to table the approval of an emergency rule related to Gov. Kevin Stitt's recent anti-abortion executive order, which asked the agency to take certain actions regarding provider contracting.

Stitt and other Republican governors argue that drug discounts can be used to support abortion services indirectly.