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Abortion Rights Ballot Measures Pass in Seven States

Quick Hits

Voters in Arizona, Colorado, Maryland, Missouri, Montana, New York, and Nevada supported ballot measures to add the right to abortion into the state constitution.
Ballot measures to expand abortion access failed in Florida, Nebraska, and South Dakota.
Legal challenges are expected regarding the ballot measure process, parental consent requirements, and other abortion limits in certain states.

On November 5, 2024, voters in Arizona, Colorado, Maryland, Missouri, Montana, New York, and Nevada approved ballot measures to amend the state … Read the rest

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A fast-moving argument over medication abortion

It’s a crisp morning here as Washington’s famous cherry blossoms are holding on to their leaves and color a good eight days after they reached an unexpectedly early peak bloom. The court has some of the trees right on its grounds, and they will be a backdrop to much expressive activity over today’s lone case — Food and Drug Administration v. Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine, about the agency’s 2016 and 2021 actions easing access to the abortion drug … Read the rest

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Justices take up abortion case pitting state against federal law

The Supreme Court on Friday afternoon granted a request from Idaho and the state’s Republican-controlled legislature to temporarily put on hold a ruling by a federal district court that would require emergency rooms in the state to provide abortions to pregnant women in an emergency. The justices agreed to weigh in on the question at the center of the dispute: whether the federal law on which the lower court relied trumps an Idaho law that criminalizes most abortions in … Read the rest

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Federal government and drug manufacturer ask court to review ruling restricting access to abortion medication

The Biden administration and a drug manufacturer on Friday night asked the Supreme Court to review a decision by a federal appeals court that would significantly restrict access to a drug used in medication abortions, which account for over half of all abortions performed in the United States. The filings created the prospect that the justices will weigh in on the issue of abortion for the first time since their decision last year in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health … Read the rest