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Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has suspended a state attorney who had vowed to not enforce the state’s new 15-week abortion law. DeSantis announced the suspension of Hillsborough County State Attorney Andrew Warren at a news conference Thursday morning.

Connecticut is among a handful of states leading the way to protect and expand abortion rights.

Colorado Republicans have rejected two prominent election deniers in primaries Tuesday night. It’s a setback for the movement to install backers of former President Donald Trump’s election lies in positions with power over voting. Mesa County Clerk Tina Peters lost the Republican primary for secretary of state to Pam Anderson, a former clerk in suburban Denver. Peters was indicted for...

The Supreme Court’s decision that women have no constitutional right to an abortion marked the apex of a week that reinforced Donald Trump’s grip on Washington more than a year and a half after he exited the White House.

All three U.S. territories in the Pacific — Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands and American Samoa — have the potential to adopt abortion prohibitions.

Demonstrators are rallying from coast to coast in the face of an anticipated Supreme Court decision that could overturn women’s right to an abortion.

Democrats delivered pointed reactions after the Senate voted 49-51 against the Women’s Health Protection Act on Wednesday, rejecting nationally codifying abortion rights.

A bill seeking to incorporate Roe v. Wade abortion access into federal law failed to pass a Senate vote to overcome a filibuster on Wednesday.

President Joe Biden expressed concern Wednesday for the Supreme Court’s leaked draft opinion which could overturn precedent on abortion rights. “What are the next things that are going to be attacked?”

A federal judge has temporarily blocked a new Republican-backed law in Kentucky that led the state’s two remaining abortion clinics to halt the procedure.

Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt signed a bill into law on Tuesday that makes it a felony to perform an abortion, punishable by up to 10 years in prison.

A Texas district attorney says he will ask a judge to dismiss a murder charge against a woman over a self-induced abortion.

State-by-state battles over the future of abortion are setting up around the U.S. Republican lawmakers are proposing new restrictions based on laws in Texas and Mississippi and some Democratic-led states are working to preserve access

Conventional wisdom and past research has held that abortion is a far more motivating issue for Republicans than Democrats. That may be changing.

As the Supreme Court weighs the future of the landmark Roe v

We’ve been here before, with the fate of abortion rights throughout the United States in doubt and awaiting a decision by the Supreme Court.

The Supreme Court’s conservative majority justices are signaling they will allow states to ban abortion much earlier in pregnancy

Both sides are telling the Supreme Court there’s no middle ground in Wednesday’s showdown over abortion

A federal appeals court is once again allowing Texas to continue banning most abortions