In the US Arizona stop court has upheld a 1864 law that bans nearly all abortions. The decision can have far-reaching consequences for Women's Health Care as well as in the coming presidential elections in the country.

US: Arizona reinstates 160-year-old Abortion ban

US President Joe Biden stated on Tuesday that millions of Arizonans would soon be subject to an even more severe and hazardous abortion prohibition following the state's highest court's revival of an 1864 statute that outlaws the procedure almost entirely.

US president Joe Biden denounces Arizona abortion ban

Parents of the teenage gunman who killed four students in a 2021 school shooting at Oxford High School in Michigan were sentenced to 10 to 15 years in prison on Tuesday (Apr 9).

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Former United States president Donald Trump, on Monday (Apr 8) said that he believes that the decision regarding abortion rights should be left up to the US states, but did not mention his position on a national abortion ban.

Donald Trump says US states should decide abortion law, dodges stand on national ban

The Florida Supreme Court on Monday reshaped the state's abortion landscape by overturning longstanding privacy protections and permitting a six-week abortion ban.

Florida Court approves six-week abortion ban

The US Supreme Court appeared sceptical about limiting access to the abortion drug mifepristone during a hearing on Tuesday (Mar 26). As per reports, the top court signalled that it was unlikely to go through with such a limitation and questioned the appropriateness of challenging the drug's federal approval.

US Supreme Court appears sceptical about limiting access to abortion pills

An Ohio woman who miscarried during her second trimester could face a year in prison after being charged with abuse of a corpse. Brittany Watts, a 33-year-old black woman, started passing thick blood clots during the 21st week of pregnancy.

US: Ohio woman charged with abuse of corpse after losing foetus in toilet

The Texas Supreme Court has temporarily halted a lower court decision that permitted a Texas woman to undergo an emergency abortion. This move comes as several states tighten their abortion laws raising concerns about access to reproductive healthcare.

US: Texas Supreme Court temporarily blocks woman's emergency abortion permission

Mexico Supreme Court has decriminalised abortion. Meanwhile in U.S. Texas, local 'trafficking' is making it a crime to transport anyone to get an abortion on roads within the city or county limits. Priyanka Sharma tells you more.

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A court in Texas, USA on Friday (August 4) issued a temporary order to support group of women and doctors who brought a lawsuit to challenge the state's abortion bans.

Judge in Texas briefly lifts abortion ban for medical emergencies

A Judge has ruled that, for now, abortion pills will remain legal in the United States of Wyoming. The judge's ruling means that while a lawsuit proceeds, the state's first-in-the-nation law banning access to medical abortion medicine won't take effect on July 1st as planned.

US: Wyoming judge stays state's first-in-nation ban on abortion pills

The Catholic-majority country of Malta, enforcing its strict ban on abortions, on Thursday charged a woman for having terminated a pregnancy. The woman, reportedly, had a medical abortion at home which goes against the country's complete ban on the practice.

Malta: Woman accused of having abortion at home charged by court

A judge has issued a temporary halt to South Carolina's new law that bans most abortions at around six weeks of pregnancy. The Friday ruling by Judge Clifton Newman came shortly after Governor Henry McMaster signed the bill into law.

South Carolina judge temporarily blocks abortion ban, pending Supreme Court review

North Carolina Republican lawmakers overrode a veto by the state's Democratic governor to enact a law on Tuesday (May 16) that cuts the window for most abortions in the southern state from 20 to 12 weeks.

North Carolina legislature overrides 12-week abortion ban veto, makes it law

The United States Supreme Court on Friday (April 14) temporarily preserved full access to the widely-used abortion pill mifepristone, putting on hold lower court decisions placing restrictions on the drug.

US Supreme Court temporarily preserves access to abortion pill mifepristone

The Biden administration announced Thursday that it will seek the Supreme Court to get involved in order to maintain Americans' enhanced access to the abortion drug mifepristone, including through mail orders and without having to see a doctor. "The Justice Department strongly disagrees with the Fifth Circuit's decision in Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine v. FDA to deny in part our request for a stay pending appeal," Attorney General Merrick Garland stated. To defend the FDA's scientific judgement and safeguard Americans' access to safe and effective reproductive care, we will ask the Supreme Court for immediate relief.

Florida: Battle on abortion pill Mifeprinstone heads to Supreme Court

A Wyoming district court judge on Wednesday temporarily blocked an abortion ban that took effect a few days earlier. As reported by the news agency The Associated Press, Teton County District Court Judge Melissa Owens decided to halt the ban amid a challenge in her court.

Wyoming district court judge halts abortion ban days after it came into effect

Wyoming became the first US state to outlaw abortion pills after the state's Republican-controlled legislature passed a law on this earlier this month. On Friday, Governor Mark Gordon signed a bill that made prescribing or selling abortion pills illegal.

Wyoming becomes first US state to ban abortion pills

US District Court Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk announced Monday the hearing on a lawsuit alleging the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) should never have approved the "dangerous" prescription drug Mifepristone in 2000.

Why are the conservatives up in arms about the abortion pills

An Observer investigation has discovered that women looking for abortion advice online in the United Kingdom are being routed to pregnancy counselling services sponsored by anti-abortion activists, said a report by the Guardian.

Google adverts route pregnant women in UK to services run by anti-abortion groups

Democratic Vice President Kamala Harris said that abortion rights are being attacked across the country in a speech commemorating the 50th anniversary of Roe v. Wade, the Supreme Court decision that upheld the right to an abortion until it was reversed last year.

Kamala Harris calls for renewed effort to 'secure' abortion rights on 50th anniversary of Roe v. Wade

A group of religious leaders who support abortion rights filed a lawsuit challenging Missouri's abortion ban, saying lawmakers openly invoked their religious beliefs while drafting the measure and thereby imposed those beliefs on others who don't share them.

Religious leaders' group files lawsuit to block abortion ban in Missouri

The United States Supreme Court after its eight-month investigation failed to identify the culprit who leaked its ruling overturning the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision.

'Utter failure': US Supreme Court fails to identify abortion ruling leak culprit

The state Supreme Court of Idaho ruled on Thursday that the Constitution of Idaho did not implicitly lay down abortion as a basic right, rejecting a number of lawsuits filed by Planned Parenthood, a nonprofit organization that provides reproductive health care in the United States and globally.

US: Idaho Supreme Court upholds near-total abortion ban after Planned Parenthood lawsuit

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