The Latest Breaking News from Abortion

Downstate man charged in setting fire at Planned Parenthood clinic in Peoria

Tyler W. Massengill, 32, of Chillicothe, is accused of setting a fire to a Planned Parenthood clinic Jan. 15, causing more than $1 million in damage. No one was hurt.

Chicago Sun-Times · Jan 26, 2023

The trial of a prominent anti-abortion activist opens amid a political firestorm in Pennsylvania

PHILADELPHIA — The scuffle was brief.

The Philadelphia Inquirer · Jan 26, 2023

SC governor renews push for abortion ban in State of State

South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster is pressing forward with efforts to further restrict abortion

The Independent UK · Jan 26, 2023

GOPer wants to ban out-of-state abortion

"I'm for federal legislation, for stronger laws at the state levels," Indiana Rep. Jim Banks said in an interview

Salon · Jan 25, 2023

Lawsuits show focus of abortion battle shifting to medication - Roll Call

Moves by the Biden administration to expand access to a drug first approved in 2000 have spawned multiple lawsuits.

Roll Call · Jan 25, 2023

As states seek to limit abortions, Montana wants to redefine what is medically necessary

Montana’s conservative leaders, stymied by the courts from passing laws that impose significant statewide abortion restrictions, seek to tighten the state’s Medicaid rules to make it more difficult for low-income women to receive abortions.

Tribune News Service · Jan 25, 2023

Editorial: Missouri's abortion ban reads like a sermon. That's a constitutional problem

Among the problems with state abortion bans is that they are generally an expression of the religious convictions of the legislators who pass them. America isn’t supposed to be a theocracy. But challenging such laws as violating the separation of church and state is difficult because proponents can just claim…

St. Louis Post-Dispatch · Jan 25, 2023

Georgia Democrats push measures to allow abortions in any instance

ATLANTA — Democrats filed identical bills in each chamber of the General Assembly that seek to repeal Georgia’s 2019 abortion law and add the right to the procedure to the state code.

Tribune News Service · Jan 24, 2023

What does an abortion look like?

Doctors share images of aborted fetuses. Hint: They don’t resemble little babies.

Chicago Sun-Times · Jan 24, 2023

South Dakota Gov. Noem threatens charges for abortion pills

South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem, along with the state’s Republican attorney general, say the state will prosecute pharmacists who dispense abortion-inducing pills

The Independent UK · Jan 24, 2023