A district court judge on Monday blocked the continued implementation of Wyoming abortion bans that also expressly prohibited the use of abortion pills to end pregnancies, the Washington Times reports.
A county court judge has permanently blocked an effort by Ohio’s attorney general to enforce a 2019 law banning abortion at six week’s gestation, the Associated Press (AP) reports. Ohio’s Republican Attorney General Dave Yost sought to enforce the ‘heartbeat bill’ despite last year’s voter-approved amendment to enshrine the right to abortion under Ohio’s state constitution.
A Christian man is considering appealing his conviction in Britain for silently praying near an abortion clinic.
Stoppage of Georgia’s abortion law banning abortion after six weeks has been stayed by the state Supreme Court, giving time for the attorney general’s appeal to be heard.
A federal judge last week issued a temporary injunction blocking Tennessee from enforcing a new law that bans adults from helping minors get an abortion without parental consent, the Associated Press reports.
The Missouri Supreme Court ruled Tuesday (September 10) that the upcoming November 5 ballot will contain Amendment 3, a measure that would enshrine the right to abortion up to viability in the state constitution, the Missouri Independent (MI) reports. Allowing voters to decide the issue, Missouri’s highest court reversed a lower court’s ruling that Amendment 3 should be removed from the ballot.
The US Supreme Court has rejected a request by Republican-led Oklahoma to stop the federal government from withholding federal funding over the state’s new ban on abortion, the Washington Times reports.
Following the 2022 decision by the US Supreme Court to revoke the federal right to abortion up to viability and return the issue to individual states to decide, at least nine states will have pro-choice abortion measures on their November 2024 ballot, Forbes reports. The nine states with confirmed ballot measures are: Arizona, Colorado, Florida, Maryland, Missouri, Montana, New York, Nevada, and South Carolina.
A federal court ruled Tuesday that, while a related lawsuit proceeds, nonprofit pro-life pregnancy centers in New York are allowed to tell women that the effects of abortion pill drugs can be safely reversed for a healthy pregnancy to continue, CBN News reports.