By VANESSA GERA Associated Press WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland’s parliament is finally holding a long-awaited debate on liberalizing the country’s strict abortion law. The traditionally Catholic nation has one of the most restrictive laws in Europe. But the reality is that many women terminate pregnancies at home with pills mailed from abroad. Currently the
WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland’s parliament is finally holding a long-awaited debate on liberalizing the country's strict abortion law. The traditionally Catholic nation has one of the most restrictive
Democrats have a chance to corner Republicans on an unpopular issue – and defend a modern and egalitarian societyThey don’t need Congress. The anti-abortion movement is preparing to ban abortion nationwide as soon as a Republican takes the White House, and under a bizarre legal theory, they don’t think they even need congressional approval to do it. That’s because anti-choice radicals have begun to argue that an 1873 anti-obscenity law, the Comstock Act, effectively bans the mailing, sale,...
Abortion access now is a state-by-state patchwork of laws that is ever-changing as new restrictions take effect.
Friday, while speaking at his Mar-a-Lago home, former President Donald Trump indicated that a new law at the federal level governing abortion is unnecessary, as the Supreme Court decision that overturned
With a near total ban about to kick in in Arizona, abortion providers are keeping an eye on options in other states.
Donald Trump has distanced himself from a revived 1864 law that would ban most abortions.
Arizona’s highest court has revived a 160-year-old law banning all abortions unless a mother’s life is at risk and punishing doctors who perform the procedure with prison sentences.
Defense and trial attorney Misty Marris joins CNN to explain the Arizona Supreme Court’s decision that ruled the state must adhere to a 123-year-old penal code provision barring all abortions except in cases when “it is necessary to save” a pregnant person’s life.
The demonstrations in Georgia's capital, Tbilisi, resulted in clashes that
Three district attorneys in Georgia have renewed their challenge of a commission created to discipline and remove state prosecutors, arguing it violates the U.S. and Georgia constitutions. Their lawsuits filed Tuesday in Fulton County Superior Court in Atlanta challenge Georgia’s Prosecuting Attorneys Qualifications Commission, a body Republican lawmakers revived this year after originally creating it
Arizona’s Supreme Court ruled on Tuesday that a near-total ban on abortions tied to a Civil War-era law in the state is enforceable. Under that 1864 law, anyone who performs an abortion or helps a woman obtain one can be charged with a felony. The one exception to the prohibition is if an abortion is needed to save a woman’s life. It’s a horrifying ruling, and all the more striking because Arizona is a purple state, not a bastion of deep social conservatism. The retrograde law dates back to...