The Latest Breaking News from Abortion

Beaten, suffocated, forced into an abortion: the fate of one Venezuelan woman under Maduro

Latest Amnesty International report documents ongoing state detention and torture in the South American country – all while its president seeks renewed links with the west

The Guardian - UK · Aug 29, 2023

Tuberville's hold on military promotions may put 650 officers in limbo by year's end

Hundreds of nominees for military positions have been stalled as Sen. Tommy Tuberville, R-Ala., protests Pentagon abortion policy, and that total could swell to 650, the Pentagon says.

WEKU · Aug 28, 2023

Ohio Ballot Board adopts language for abortion-related initiative on Nov. 2023 ballot

The Ohio Ballot Board approved the ballot title for a citizen-initiated measure to provide a state constitutional right to abortion and other reproductive matters. The initiated constitutional amendment will be on the ballot as Issue 1 on Nov. 7, 2023.

Ballotpedia · Aug 28, 2023

Federal judge: West Virginia can restrict abortion pill sales

A federal judge has ruled that West Virginia can restrict the sale of the abortion pill

The Independent UK · Aug 25, 2023

South Carolina abortion ban with unclear 'fetal heartbeat' definition creates confusion, doctors say

The South Carolina Supreme Court upheld a ban on most abortions this week but left undecided the question of when, exactly, the “fetal heartbeat” limit begins during pregnancy

The Independent UK · Aug 25, 2023

Backers blast approved ballot language for Ohio's fall abortion amendment as misleading

The Ohio Ballot Board has approved language for a fall abortion measure that Democrats and the issue's backers are criticizing as inaccurate

The Independent UK · Aug 24, 2023

Republican Presidential Contenders Make Faith And Family A Central Issue

Pew Research Center says that the number of Americans who consider themselves as religious has declined.

Zenger · Aug 24, 2023

The Republican debate was a spectacle of sadism and self-regarding piousness

The debate was the party in miniature: vexed, divided, driven by their base to unpopular extremes, glorying in fantasies of revenge and social purification

The Guardian - US · Aug 24, 2023

Democrats in Pennsylvania want to keep a Supreme Court majority. They're talking up abortion rights

Democrats in Pennsylvania are talking up abortion rights as they try to protect their state Supreme Court majority in the presidential battleground

The Independent UK · Aug 24, 2023

Republican candidates grapple with post-Roe positioning on abortion

Abortion has been a losing issue for GOP since end of federal right but Pence, Scott and Hutchinson urged tightening restrictions

The Guardian - US · Aug 24, 2023