Arkansas Rejects Abortion Rights Amendment Petition on Technicality
The Arkansas secretary of state said that the group collecting signatures to put an abortion-rights amendment on the ballot had failed to submit some of the necessary paperwork.
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The Arkansas secretary of state said that the group collecting signatures to put an abortion-rights amendment on the ballot had failed to submit some of the necessary paperwork.
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The rulings were the latest blow for abortion opponents in Kansas, where abortion protections in the State Constitution have vexed Republicans for years.
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Arkansas is the third state this week where organizers said they had collected enough support for a petition to enshrine some abortion access in the State Constitution.
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Organizers have until Friday to collect enough signatures to put abortion access on the ballot this fall in a state where conservative and evangelical values run deep.
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Nevada Residents Will Vote on Abortion Rights in November
A measure seeking to protect abortion access in the State Constitution will appear on the ballot. It is one of nearly a dozen such initiatives that could shape other races this election.
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She Needed an Emergency Abortion. Doctors in Idaho Put Her on a Plane.
In states that have banned abortion, hospitals have struggled to treat pregnant women facing health risks. A Supreme Court decision this week did not help.
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Iowa Supreme Court Allows Six-Week Abortion Ban to Take Effect
Republican lawmakers passed the restrictions last year, but a lower court blocked enforcement of the law.
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Supreme Court Allows, for Now, Emergency Abortions in Idaho
A majority of the justices voted to dismiss the case, reinstating a lower-court ruling that paused the state’s near-total abortion ban. The ruling mirrored a version inadvertently posted a day earlier.
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Supreme Court’s Abortion Rulings May Set the Stage for More Restrictions
The court’s strategy of avoidance and delay cannot last and may have been shaped by a desire to avoid controversy in an election year.
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The document reflects the former president’s ideological grip on his party, outlining the same nationalistic priorities that his campaign website does.
By Maggie Haberman, Shane Goldmacher and Jonathan Swan
After President Biden’s rocky answer on abortion at the debate, his campaign has ramped up its messaging on Donald Trump’s role in overturning Roe v. Wade and his policy stances.
By Simon J. Levien
Leaders of the anti-abortion movement sent a letter to Donald J. Trump amid worries he may try to weaken the anti-abortion language in the party platform.
By Shane Goldmacher and Jonathan Swan
A reporter observed a day of messages to the National Domestic Violence Hotline. She does not know the callers’ names, but she’ll never forget their stories.
By Emily Cochrane
We scrutinized the presidential candidates’ recent claims on abortion, health care, crime and climate change ahead of the debate.
By Linda Qiu
The Republican women in the group of five “Sister Senators” faced primary challenges who support a near-total ban.
By Kate Zernike
Bloomberg published a copy of an opinion that appeared briefly on the Supreme Court’s website and seemed to concern an Idaho abortion case.
A document posted briefly to the court’s website suggested a majority of the justices would reinstate a lower-court ruling that paused the state’s near-total abortion ban.
By Abbie VanSickle
Deaths of infants in the state increased by 13 percent in 2022, a study found, driven by fatal birth defects.
By Claire Cain Miller
Immigration, the economy, democracy and abortion rights: Here are the main ways each candidate is likely to slam the other at Thursday’s high-stakes confrontation.
By Nicholas Nehamas and Michael Gold
After the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade and some states banned abortions altogether, many Americans began crossing state lines to get one.
By Soumya Karlamangla
Plus, the soaring costs of caring for pets.
By Tracy Mumford, Lisa Lerer, Ivan Nechepurenko, Katie Thomas, Ian Stewart and Jessica Metzger
Across the country this week, Democrats are focusing on abortion issues and emphasizing Donald Trump’s role in nominating the justices who helped overturn Roe v. Wade.
By Katie Glueck and Lisa Lerer
A new study analyzed 50 years of friend-of-the-court briefs and found that abortion opponents were more relentless than their adversaries, with some reflected in the justices’ opinions.
By Adam Liptak
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Two years after Roe was struck down, the conversation has focused on the complications that can come with pregnancy and fertility, helping to drive more support for abortion rights.
By Kate Zernike
The measure would affirm the right to abortion in the State Constitution. Democrats hope that it will help Senator Jon Tester in his bid for re-election.
By Kate Zernike
Some major Supreme Court decisions this term, including a ruling that allowed the government to prohibit people subject to restraining orders from having guns, have underscored the pervasiveness of domestic violence.
By Emily Cochrane
She avoided endorsements in the past, saying they could compromise her philanthropic work with politicians.
By Theodore Schleifer
A new poll of female voters finds that concerns about inflation are still paramount, even as abortion could motivate Democratic women in states where the issue is on the ballot.
By Ruth Igielnik
In Arizona, the G.O.P. is divided over the future of opposing abortion.
By Astead W. Herndon, Caitlin O’Keefe and Elisa Gutierrez
Democrats sought to quickly reinstate a ban on gun bump stocks after a Supreme Court ruling. It was the latest Senate floor fight to end in a predictable stalemate.
By Carl Hulse
They are veering from cautious optimism to complete pessimism about their long odds this year, with two liberal-leaning state ballot measures having the potential to lift turnout.
By Lisa Lerer and Patricia Mazzei
The Southern Baptist Convention, long a bellwether for American evangelicalism, voted to oppose the use of in vitro fertilization.
By Sabrina Tavernise, Ruth Graham, Rob Szypko, Sydney Harper, Stella Tan, Asthaa Chaturvedi, Rachelle Bonja, Marc Georges, Lisa Chow, Dan Powell, Marion Lozano and Alyssa Moxley
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An emerging coalition that views Donald J. Trump’s agenda as a threat to democracy is laying the groundwork to push back if he wins in November, taking extraordinary pre-emptive actions.
By Charlie Savage, Reid J. Epstein, Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan
Xavier Becerra, the health and human services secretary, will travel to states with large Latino populations, including some with key races on the ballot in November.
By Jazmine Ulloa
The movement looks for a path forward: “Is the goal the absolute abolition of abortion in our nation?”
By Elizabeth Dias
Wording in the summit’s final statement led to a diplomatic tug of war, primarily between the United States and Italy.
By Erica L. Green and Emma Bubola
The annual defense policy legislation emerged from a House committee with bipartisan backing, but Republicans loaded it with right-wing mandates targeting abortion, transgender care and diversity initiatives.
By Robert Jimison
Plus, New York targets rogue smoke shops.
By Tracy Mumford, Luke Broadwater, Jack Ewing, Ashley Southall, Davis Land and Jessica Metzger
The vote at the Southern Baptist Convention raising alarms about in vitro fertilization began with two conservatives at a seminary in Kentucky.
By Ruth Graham
The decision does not eliminate efforts to restrict the availability of the pill.
By Abbie VanSickle
Supporters of abortion rights hailed the ruling on a challenge they said was fueled by junk science, but warned that it only maintained the status quo as more challenges loomed.
By Kate Zernike
The activists were disappointed but planned to adapt strategies after the Supreme Court upheld access to a widely available abortion pill.
By Elizabeth Dias
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Though the Supreme Court ruled upheld access to mifepristone, the case is likely to be revived by three Republican-led states as the plaintiffs.
By Pam Belluck
A ruling limiting access to a widely available abortion pill would have given Democrats another way to hammer their opponents on an issue that’s become politically damaging for Republican politicians.
By Lisa Lerer
The opinion in the case focused entirely on standing, the legal doctrine that requires plaintiffs to show that they have suffered direct and concrete injuries in order to sue.
By Adam Liptak
One-fifth of abortions are being done via telemedicine, nearly half in states with abortion bans or restrictions.
By Margot Sanger-Katz and Claire Cain Miller
More than half of people who get legal abortions in the United States — and three-quarters in Europe — use medication abortion.
By Claire Cain Miller and Margot Sanger-Katz
Plus, a scramble to shrink student loan bills.
By Tracy Mumford, Mark Landler, Ruth Maclean, Davis Land and Jessica Metzger
In the battleground state of Arizona, Democrats hope that anger over Dobbs and state-level restrictions will send people to the polls and keep Biden in the White House.
By Astead W. Herndon, Caitlin O’Keefe and Anna Foley
Out-of-state trips for abortions more than doubled in 2023, demonstrating the upheaval in access since the overturn of Roe v. Wade.
By Molly Cook Escobar, Amy Schoenfeld Walker, Allison McCann, Scott Reinhard and Helmuth Rosales
In “The Fall of Roe,” Elizabeth Dias and Lisa Lerer explain exactly how Roe v. Wade was made — and unmade.
By Mattie Kahn
With almost 13 million church members across the United States, the Southern Baptist Convention has long been a bellwether for American evangelicalism.
By Ruth Graham
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The magazine’s Ethicist columnist on whether a co-parent’s wishes should matter to a pregnant woman.
By Kwame Anthony Appiah
Justice Samuel Alito’s secretly recorded remarks come as many conservatives have openly embraced the view that American democracy must be grounded in a Christian worldview.
By Elizabeth Dias and Lisa Lerer
Delegates will vote on whether to tighten restrictions on women in pastoral leadership and whether to condemn the use of in vitro fertilization.
By Ruth Graham
The groups say they are increasingly confused and frustrated by how major technology platforms moderate posts about abortion services.
By Emily Schmall and Sapna Maheshwari
The group, known as the Danbury Institute, opposes abortion in all cases and has asserted that life begins at the moment of fertilization.
By Lisa Lerer
By starting a discharge petition on legislation to codify the right to contraceptive access, Democrats aim to spotlight Republican opposition to the bill, part of a broader push to highlight the issue for voters.
By Annie Karni
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