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A new war between the states is erupting -- this time over abortion. A dozen states, including Texas and Louisiana, have ...
While state court challenges have stalled out, a new federal suit tries to advance the battle between Texas’ abortion laws ...
Kathy Hochul will run hard on abortion next year, because she won’t have much else to rally the Democratic base.
Planned Parenthood clinics across New York state are seeing Medicaid patients as usual this month, but they’re no longer ...
New York enacted a law on Monday intended to protect the state's doctors from prosecution by other states that have banned abortions when they prescribe and mail out abortion pills.
New York Governor Kathy Hochul signed new legislation that will protect the state's doctors, medical providers and facilitators who prescribe abortion care telehealth services to patients outside ...
A Texas man is suing a California doctor for allegedly providing his girlfriend with abortion medication. The lawsuit—a civil ...
These legal actions could prompt the first challenges to New York’s so-called shield law, which was designed to protect abortion clinicians from being targeted by states that restrict the procedure.
The new law in New York expands the state’s shield laws for healthcare providers who provide abortion services to other states, making it one of eight Democrat-led states with such protections.
Meanwhile, New York is among several states that enforce shield laws—something abortion-banned states are beginning to challenge—which protect abortion providers from legal threats for mailing ...
How New York’s abortion law has changed. On the 46th anniversary of Roe V. Wade, New York state passed a law to protect women’s access to abortion if the historic case is overturned.