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An attendee at Planned Parenthood's Bans Off Our Bodies rally for abortion rights holds a sign reading outside of the Idaho Statehouse in downtown Boise, Idaho, on May 14, 2022. Six university professors and two teachers’ unions are suing Idaho over a law that they say violates their First Amendment rights by criminalizing teaching and classroom discussion about pro-abortion viewpoints. (Sarah A. Miller/Idaho Statesman via AP, File)

Women denied abortions file complaints against Idaho, Tennessee, Oklahoma abortion bans

By Alex Swoyer - The Washington Times

Rights group, Maine abortion provider aim to halt “gag rule”

By PATRICK WHITTLE - Associated Press

FILE - In this May 3, 2017, file photo, California Attorney General Xavier Becerra answers a question during a news conference, in Sacramento, Calif. Becerra is suing the Trump administration in federal court for allowing more employers to opt out of providing no-cost birth control to women by claiming moral or religious objections, Friday, Oct. 6, 2017. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli, File)

Center for Reproductive Rights sues administration over right to contraceptives

By Alex Swoyer - The Washington Times

FILE - This June 27, 2013 file photo shows Dr. Herbert Hodes in Topeka, Kan. An abortion rights group is asking a Kansas judge Thursday, June 25, 2015 to block the state's first-in-the-nation ban on what it says is the most common method for terminating second-trimester pregnancies, contending that the new law would force women to either accept higher medical risks or forgo abortions. The suit was filed by the Center for Reproductive Rights that represents father-daughter Drs. Hodes and Traci Nauser, who perform abortions in the Kansas City suburb of Overland Park. (AP Photo/John Hanna, File)

Judge blocks Kansas’ ban on 2nd-trimester abortion procedure

By JOHN HANNA - Associated Press

FILE - This June 27, 2013 file photo shows Dr. Herbert Hodes in Topeka, Kan. An abortion rights group is asking a Kansas judge Thursday, June 25, 2015 to block the state's first-in-the-nation ban on what it says is the most common method for terminating second-trimester pregnancies, contending that the new law would force women to either accept higher medical risks or forgo abortions. The suit was filed by the Center for Reproductive Rights that represents father-daughter Drs. Hodes and Traci Nauser, who perform abortions in the Kansas City suburb of Overland Park. (AP Photo/John Hanna, File)

Judge to consider blocking Kansas ban on abortion method

By JOHN HANNA - Associated Press

In a Tuesday July 2, 2013 photo, pro-abortion rights supporter Yatzel Sabat, left, and anti-abortion protester Amanda Reed demonstrate at the state Capitol in Austin, Texas. The Supreme Court is considering an emergency appeal from abortion providers in Texas, a judgment that will likely affect a case winding through the courts in Louisiana. (Associated Press via Jay Janner of Austin American-Statesman/File).

Louisiana abortion law challenged at federal level

By Cheryl Wetzstein - The Washington Times

Louisiana: Texas abortion ruling reopens question in La case

By JANET McCONNAUGHEY - Associated Press

Sitting on the U.S. Supreme Court are (clockwise from upper left) Associate Justices Sonia Sotomayor, Stephen G. Breyer, Samuel A. Alito Jr., Elena Kagan, Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Anthony M. Kennedy; Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr.; and Associate Justices Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Texas abortion law may head for Supreme Court ‘showdown’

By David Crary and Juan Carlos Llorca - Associated Press

In this July 2, 2012 photo, abortion opponent Ashley Sigrest of Brandon, Miss., talks about her reasons she protests Jackson Women's Health Organization's clinic in Jackson, Miss. Sigrest said she regrets the abortion she had in August 1998 and supports admitting privileges laws because she believes they protect women’s health. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)

Abortion doctors restrictions take root in South

By EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS - Associated Press

FILE - In this July 12, 2013 file photo, opponents and supporters of abortion rights rally in the State Capitol rotunda in Austin, Texas. An advocacy group filed another federal lawsuit Wednesday, April 2, 2014, challenging a new provision in Texas' tough restrictions on abortion. The Center for Reproductive Rights asked an Austin-based judge to block enforcement of key portions of the law, including some which have yet to take effect. (AP Photo/Tamir Kalifa, File)

2nd suit filed challenging Texas’ new abortion law

By WILL WEISSERT - Associated Press

FILE - This Feb. 20, 2013 file photo shows a protesters outside the Red River Valley Women's Clinic, the state's sole abortion provider, in Fargo, N.D. The clinic has settled a lawsuit it filed over a new law requiring doctors who perform abortions to obtain hospital-admitting privileges. North Dakota Attorney General Wayne Stenehjem and the New York-based Center for Reproductive Rights, which is helping the Red River Women's Clinic, told The Associated Press on Friday, March 14, 2014, that the case has been settled. (AP Photo/Dave Kolpack, File)

APNewsBreak: North Dakota abortion lawsuit settled

By JAMES MacPHERSON - Associated Press

Judge throws out Oklahoma morning-after pill law

By TIM TALLEY - Associated Press

Anti-abortion groups divided over legal tactics

By DAVID CRARY - Associated Press

Maimouna Awuor, 44, an impoverished mother of four who gave birth to her fifth child in October 2010, couldn't pay the $60 hospital bill, and was held along with many other women and their infants. "They stay there until they pay," said the hospital’s administrator. "If you don't pay, the hospital will collapse." (Associated Press)

Kenyan hospital imprisons new mothers with no money

By Jason Straziuso - Associated Press

Kenya hospital imprisons new mothers with no money

By JASON STRAZIUSO - Associated Press

**FILE** Anti-abortion and abortion rights supporters stand face to face Jan. 23, 2012, in front of the Supreme Court in Washington during the annual March For Life rally. (Associated Press)

On abortion, both sides agree: Tickets offer stark choice

By Cheryl Wetzstein - The Washington Times

Judge says Arizona’s abortion ban can take effect

By PAUL DAVENPORT and JACQUES BILLEAUD - Associated Press

A New York judge said in ruling on a petition seeking to relax FDA rules on the morning-after pill that Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius could be added as a defendant. (Associated Press)

Judge’s ruling not an end to Plan B debate

By Cheryl Wetzstein - The Washington Times

Victoria Tindall, an Oklahoma assistant attorney general, answers a question following a hearing on a state abortion law on Tuesday, Oct. 18, 2011, in Oklahoma City. (AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki)

Okla. judge blocks abortion law from taking effect

By Sean Murphy - Associated Press

Rights group slams Philippine abortion ban

By TERESA CEROJANO - Associated Press