EDITORIAL: Preserving a rite of passage
Litigation over abortion threatens to go on forever, and it probably will. Feminists see abortion almost as a rite of female passage; others as an offense against nature, if not against God.
Category Archives: Abortion
Blocked Indiana abortion law comes amid procedure’s decline
A federal judge's decision to block a new Indiana abortion law from taking effect was a setback for anti-abortion activists who backed the push to tighten restrictions on the procedure that are already among the most strict in the country. Provisions put on hold a day before they were to take effect Friday would have banned abortions sought because of a fetus' genetic abnormalities, such as Down syndrome or because of the race, gender or ancestry of a fetus, and required that aborted fetuses be buried or cremated.
Christine Flowers, of the Philadelphia Daily News, is an op-ed columnist for Tribune News Service.
I vowed I would never vote for Donald Trump. I have written, at last count, seven columns explaining why he repulses me.
Our courts should enforce the constitution
My father was an obstetrician-gynecologist in Texas. Shortly after Roe v. Wade, until he passed away ten years ago, my father performed abortions in San Antonio, Corpus Christi, and Laredo.
Sununu caves: Planned Parenthood cashes in
Donald Trump read a litany of trade deals Thursday in which he said Mexico got the better of the U.S., and then a jet roared overhead from nearby Manchester-Boston Regional Airport.
Letters on abortion, bike trails, school funding, Masterson
After the recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling that struck down certain abortion restrictions, a local TV station reporter interviewed a young woman outside the gates at the South Wind Women's Center. This woman said that women going into the clinic didn't know what they were doing.
U.S. Supreme Court strikes down regulations on Texas abortion clinics
In a 5-3 vote June 27, the U.S. Supreme Court struck down restrictions on Texas abortion clinics that required them to comply with standards of ambulatory surgical centers and required their doctors to have admitting privileges at local hospitals.
Supreme Court DecisionProtecting Abortion Industry More Important than Womans Health, Safety
On Monday , in the case Whole Woman's Health v. Hellerstedt , the U.S. Supreme Court, in a 5-3 decision, struck down a Texas law that ensured abortion facilities are clean and safe.
New laws on abortion set to take effect around the country
In this June 2015 photo, California state Sen. Richard Pan, D-Sacramento, is thanked by Leah Russin, holding her 21-month-old son, Leo, 2, after Pan's bill requiring nearly all school children to be vaccinated was signed by Gov. Jerry Brown.
Meet the Attorney Who Just Won the Historic Abortion Rights Case at the Supreme Court
Hellerstedt , the Supreme Court case to protect abortion access. She just won her first-ever case before the Supreme Court on Monday.
Birth-Control Wars: Two Centuries of Struggle
The birth-control wars have reached a new level of contestation. On Monday, June 27th, the Supreme Court struck down a Texas law - Whole Woman's Health v.
Supreme Court won’t rescue Wisconsin abortion law
Handing down its second major abortion action in as many days, the U.S. Supreme Court refused Tuesday to rescue a Wisconsin law restricting abortion clinics and doctors in the state, leaving in place lower court rulings that had struck it down. The unsigned order ends a three-year legal fight and was accompanied Tuesday by another rejection of an appeal by Mississippi that sought to reinstate a similar law requiring abortion doctors to be able to admit patients to nearby hospitals.
The Imaginarium of Harry Blackmun
The Supreme Court has added another chapter to the body of law rooted in very little more than the imagination of Justice Harry Blackmun, who, with the assistance of a few of his fellow legal fantasists, delivered the constitutional right to abortion, Athena-like, from his head into the waiting world.At issue were a number of regulations in the state of Texas governing abortion clinics and the meat-cutters employed therein. Texas, with its relatively light regulatory regime, is sometimes regarded in the coastal cosmopoles as something between late-Seventies Hong Kong and the fever dreams of Ayn Rand, but it isn't quite.
Texas may not restore lost abortion clinics despite ruling
Long wait times for abortions and lengthy drives to abortion clinics are likely to continue in Texas for months and maybe years despite the U.S. Supreme Court striking down restrictions that drastically reduced the number of providers statewide. Texas lost more than half of its 41 abortion clinics in the three years since former Republican Gov. Rick Perry signed a sweeping anti-abortion law that justices largely dismantled in a 5-3 ruling Monday.
Texas illegally curbs abortion clinics, Supreme Court rules
The Supreme Court issued its strongest defense of abortion rights in a quarter-century Monday, striking down Texas' widely replicated rules that sharply reduced abortion clinics in the nation's second-most-populous state. By a 5-3 vote, the justices rejected the state's arguments that its 2013 law and follow-up regulations were needed to protect women's health.
Supreme Court Strikes Down Texas Abortion Law
COTUS struck down Texas' strict law regarding abortion in a 5-3 decision on Monday, according to NBC News . The decision in Whole Woman's Health v.
The Latest: Wendy Davis calls abortion ruling gratifying end
Amy Hagstrom Miller, founder of Whole Woman's Health, a Texas women's health clinic that provides abortions, rejoices as she leaves the Supreme Court in Washington, Monday, June 27, 2016, as the justices struck down the ... .
The Latest: Some Texas abortion clinics likely won’t reopen
Amy Hagstrom Miller, second from right, founder of Whole Woman's Health, a Texas women's health clinic that provides abortions, leaves the Supreme Court in Washington, Monday, June 27, 2016, with Center for Reproductive Rights President Nancy Northup, far right, as the justices struck down the strict Texas anti-abortion restriction law known as HB2. The justices voted 5-3 in favor of Texas clinics that had argued the regulations were a thinly veiled attempt to make it harder for women to get an abortion in the nation's second-most populous state.
The Latest: Alito reads aloud dissenting abortion opinion
Amy Hagstrom Miller, founder of Whole Woman's Health, a Texas women's health clinic that provides abortions, rejoices as she leaves the Supreme Court in Washington, Monday, June 27, 2016, as the justices struck down the ... . Lucy Ceballos, center, and Isabella Soto, left, members of the National Institute for Reproductive Health, celebrate the U.S. Supreme Court ruling against Texas' abortion restrictions in front of Whole Woman's Hea... AUSTIN, Texas - The Latest on the Supreme Court's decision striking down Texas' strict regulation of abortion clinics : At the U.S. Supreme Court, the justices' decision in the Texas abortion clinic case provoked a strong response from Justice Samuel Alito.
Planned Parenthood has no plans to re-open clinics in Lufkin, Bryan, Huntsville
In the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court's 5-3 decision to strike down a Texas law that imposed strict regulations on abortion clinics, the president of Planned Parenthood Gulf Coast said Monday that the organization will not be re-opening its health centers in Bryan, Lufkin and Huntsville. "This landmark ruling is an enormous victory for women.