The Latest News about abortion

A judge ruled Friday to keep the last abortion clinic in Missouri open temporarily despite the Missouri Department of Health & Senior Services’ refusal to renew the clinic’s license earlier in the day. Hours before State Circuit Judge Michael Stelzer extended his preliminary injunction to keep the clinic open temporarily, DHSS refused to renew the St. Louis abortion clinic’s license, according ...

An appeals court ruled Thursday that the Trump administration can ban taxpayer-funded abortion clinics from performing abortions or making abortion referrals. The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that the Trump administration can bar clinics from performing abortions or making abortion referrals, according to Politico. For the first time in history, the new Title X regulations will allow federal ...

The governor of Rhode Island signed a bill Wednesday protecting abortion access within the state and repealing anti-abortion laws. Rhode Island Democratic Gov. Gina Raimondo signed the bill, HB 5125, after it passed through the House and Senate, calling it an “important, consequential bill,” according to The Associated Press. The bill passed the Senate 21 to 17 and passed the ...

A little under half of Texas registered voters want to ban abortion after six weeks, a poll released Wednesday shows. The poll, conducted by the University of Texas and Texas Tribune, reveals that about half (48 percent) of Texas voters want to abolish abortion six weeks into a pregnancy. Of these voters, 51 percent were men and 46 percent were ...

Former Vice President Joe Biden once took a middle-of-the-road approach to the abortion debate, a video from 2006 reveals. The Democratic 2020 presidential hopeful spoke to Texas Monthly in a 2006 interview later uploaded to YouTube in 2008 about his approach to abortion he said drew anger from both Republicans and Democrats. CNN’s KFile unearthed the video Thursday. Biden explains ...

A city council in Waskom, Texas, outlawed abortion procedures in Waskom Wednesday and declared the city a sanctuary city for the unborn. The move was pushed by Right to Life of East Texas and precedes another bill Texas lawmakers are pushing which would require doctors to care for babies born alive in botched abortions. Abortions are not permitted in the ...

Illinois lawmakers instated a progressive abortion law Wednesday that repeals a variety of restrictive abortion legislation. Democratic Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker signed the Reproductive Health Act into law Wednesday. The bill goes into effect immediately and repeals Illinois Abortion Law of 1975, according to CNN. The new legislation establishes, among a variety of other additions, a woman’s “fundamental right” to ...

Left-wing groups lashed out at former Vice President Joe Biden Wednesday over his continued support for the Hyde Amendment. The 2020 presidential hopeful’s campaign confirmed to NBC that Biden still supports the Hyde Amendment which bans the use of federal funding for abortions except in cases of rape, incest, or if the mother’s life is in danger. Biden supports Roe ...

The CEO of the world’s largest sugar daddy dating site promised Tuesday to pay the airfare of any woman who must travel to obtain an abortion. Brandon Wade, Founder and CEO of SeekingArrangement, believes that all women should have access to abortions. The passage of restrictive abortion legislation made Wade realize that his position as CEO of the largest sugar ...

A judge in St. Louis, Missouri ruled to temporarily block the state from preventing the state’s only Planned Parenthood from performing abortions on Friday. “We could face a situation tomorrow where 1.1 million women of reproductive age in Missouri will no longer be able to access abortion care, which is essential health care, in their own state,” Dr. Leana Wen, president ...

The Walt Disney Company is considering boycotting Georgia over its new abortion law, even as Disney profits from doing business in China, a notorious human rights violator that is putting Muslims in internment camps. Disney CEO Bob Iger told Reuters Thursday that the company is likely to cease filming in Georgia if the pro-life law takes effect. “I think many ...

The Louisiana House of Representatives passed a bill Wednesday banning abortions after the child’s heartbeat can be detected. The bill overwhelmingly passed the Louisiana House of Representative with a vote of 79-23 and would “prohibit the abortion of an unborn human being with a detectable heartbeat,” according to CNN. The House rejected an amendment to the bill Wednesday that would ...

Netflix plans to step up production in the Middle East, notably Jordan and Egypt, where abortion is illegal, after mulling a company boycott in Georgia on account of the “heartbeat” abortion bill. Netflix’s Chief Content Officer, Ted Sarandos, stated, Tuesday, that the company would “rethink” its Georgia investments if the “heartbeat” abortion bill takes effect. Netflix’s expressed reluctance to produce ...

Ted Sarandos, Netflix’s chief content officer, told Variety that Netflix will “rethink” their “entire investment in Georgia.” Many major Hollywood studios have remained silent on the matter of Georgia abortion legislation. An MPAA spokesperson told TheDCNF in a statement that “The outcome in Georgia will also be determined through the legal process. We will continue to monitor developments.” Netflix’s chief ...

The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), the ACLU of Alabama and the Planned Parenthood Federation of America filed a lawsuit Friday morning against restrictive Alabama abortion legislation signed in May. ACLU groups and Planned Parenthood filed the lawsuit “on behalf of Alabama abortion providers” in the United States District Court of the Middle District of Alabama, according to a press ...