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Florida Officials Confirm Abortion Rights Measure Has Qualified For Ballot Pending FL Supreme Court Ruling

Miami’s NBC affiliate reports: Florida election officials confirmed Friday that a proposed abortion rights amendment has qualified for the 2024 ballot, but its future hinges on a Florida Supreme Court decision. Florida Attorney General Ashley Moody submitted the measure to the Florida Supreme Court for judicial review last October, but justices have yet to make a decision. The court is …

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Biden Boosts Abortion Protections On Roe Anniversary

The Washington Post reports: The White House on Monday is announcing new steps intended to ensure access to contraception, abortion medication and emergency abortions at hospitals. It represents President Biden’s latest bid to contrast himself with Republican challengers who support strict abortion limits and arrives on the anniversary of the Supreme Court ruling that guaranteed abortion rights for nearly 50 …

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Haley Rips Trump For “Buddying Up With Dictators,” Says She Would Sign Federal Law Banning Abortion

CBC News reports: Former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley, heading into a major test as she takes on Donald Trump in the New Hampshire primary this week, criticized the former president, in whose Cabinet she served, on Sunday for his relationship with “dictators that want to kill us.” “You can’t have someone who’s trying to buddy up with dictators that want …

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Florida Bill Allows Lawsuits Against Abortion Providers

Politico reports: Florida abortion rights supporters are worried a new proposal that would allow parents to file wrongful death lawsuits in cases involving unborn children is an attempt to target doctors who perform the procedure. The legislation, HB 651, would change the state’s civil liability law to add the parents of an unborn child to the list of potential survivors …

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Montana AG Blocks Abortion Rights Ballot Measure

The Montana Free Press reports: Montana Attorney General Austin Knudsen has blocked a ballot proposal seeking to create a constitutional right to abortion, labeling the initiative “legally insufficient” after a required review by his office. In a memorandum dated Jan. 16, Knudsen said the proposed ballot initiative spearheaded by Planned Parenthood Advocates of Montana, Ballot Measure #14, improperly “logrolls multiple …

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Missouri Sees Push For Abortion Rights Ballot Measure

St. Louis’s NBC affiliate reports: After months of private deliberations, the abortion-rights campaign Missourians for Constitutional Freedom has launched a new website asking abortion advocates to circulate petitions on a ballot question that would restore some legal abortions in Missouri. The website, which appears to have gone public Thursday night, promotes a plan that would “end the government’s cruel ban …

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Grand Jury: No Charges For OH Woman Who Miscarried

NBC News reports: An Ohio woman who faced a felony charge after she miscarried at home will not be charged, a grand jury decided Thursday. Brittany Watts, 34, had been charged with abuse of a corpse after she miscarried into a toilet on Sept. 22 at her home in Warren, some 60 miles south of Cleveland. Her case has drawn …

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Appeals Court: Texas Can Ban Emergency Abortions

Reuters reports: The U.S. government cannot enforce federal guidance in Texas requiring emergency room doctors to perform abortions if necessary to stabilize emergency room patients, a federal appeals court ruled on Tuesday, siding with the state in a lawsuit accusing President Joe Biden’s administration of overstepping its authority. The ruling by a unanimous panel of the 5th U.S. Circuit Court …

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Woman Must Pay $300K For Torching WY Abortion Clinic

The Associated Press reports: A judge has ordered a woman who set fire to Wyoming’s only full-service abortion clinic to pay nearly $300,000 in restitution, the full amount sought by prosecutors. Lorna Green is serving five years in prison for burning Wellspring Health Access weeks before the clinic was set to open in Casper in 2022. The fire gutted the …

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Court Advances Suit Over TX Abortion “Bounty” Law

Courthouse News reports: The case, brought by Fund Texas Choice and others, takes aim at Senate Bill 8, a 2021 Texas law that allows private parties to bring lawsuits against any person who “aids and abets” an abortion. Under that law, private parties can seek damages of at least $10,000 for any instance where someone aids, abets, induces or performs …

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FL Abortion Petition Has Enough Names To Make Ballot

Miami’s PBS affiliate reports: Groups behind the push to put abortion rights on the Florida ballot next year have reached a major milestone: They believe they have collected all the signatures needed to put it to a vote. The petition aims to place a state constitutional amendment to protect the right to an abortion on the 2024 ballot. It would …

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Nikki Haley Dodges Question On Texas Abortion Case

The Hill reports: Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley sidestepped a question on the high-profile abortion case in Texas, in which a woman was denied an abortion that her doctor deemed to be medically necessary. In the interview on ABC News’s “This Week,” Haley would not criticize the Texas Supreme Court, which diverged from the lower court in denying the woman, …

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Texas Senators Dodge Questions About Abortion Case

NBC News reports: Republican Sens. John Cornyn and Ted Cruz of Texas dodged questions Tuesday about Kate Cox, a mother of two who has drawn national attention after their state’s Supreme Court blocked her from getting an abortion after her fetus received a fatal diagnosis. Cruz and Cornyn were notably skittish when they were asked to weigh in on Cox’s …

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GOP Pressured To Push Contraception Not Abortion

Politico reports: Kellyanne Conway is going to Capitol Hill on Wednesday with a message for Republicans: promote contraception or risk defeat in 2024. The former senior counselor and campaign manager for President Donald Trump is part of a group set to brief Republicans on how they might get ahead of Democrats’ attacks that the GOP is anti-woman by talking more …

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Kentucky Woman Suing For Abortion Access Discovers That Her Embryo No Longer Has “Any Cardiac Activity”

The Hill reports: A pregnant woman in Kentucky who filed a lawsuit demanding the right to an abortion discovered her embryo no longer has any cardiac activity, her attorneys said Monday. Attorneys for the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and Planned Parenthood who were representing plaintiff Jane Doe said they couldn’t comment on what impact the development will have on …

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TX AG Wins Suit Against Woman’s Emergency Abortion

The New York Times reports: The Texas Supreme Court on Monday overturned a lower court order allowing an abortion for a pregnant woman whose fetus was diagnosed with a fatal condition, hours after her lawyers said she had decided to leave Texas for the procedure in the face of the state’s abortion bans. The court ruled that the lower court …

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Texas Justice Who Voted To Block Woman’s Emergency Abortion Was Arrested 37 Times Protesting At Clinics

From a 2012 Texas Tribune report: A race for the Texas Supreme Court has an eight-year incumbent with the backing of the Republican establishment battling John Devine, an anti-abortion activist and frequent political candidate known for his fight to keep the Ten Commandments displayed in his Houston courtroom. Despite past criticism, Devine has not shrunk from making his anti-abortion ideology …

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Texas AG Threatens To Prosecute Doctors After Court Grants Abortion Exemption Over Nonviable Pregnancy

Reuters reports: Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton on Thursday threatened to prosecute any doctors involved in providing an emergency abortion to a woman, hours after she won a court order allowing her to obtain one for medical necessity. Paxton said in a letter that the order by District Court Judge Maya Guerra Gamble in Austin did not shield doctors from …

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NH Republicans Introduce 15-Day Abortion Ban Bill

The Huffington Post reports Republicans in New Hampshire filed one of the most extreme abortion bans in the country on Tuesday ― and a GOP trifecta could allow the bill to become law once the legislature starts its 2024 session next month. The bill was pre-filed in the House in September, but the full text of the abortion ban was …

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Arizona Gov Backs Abortion Rights Ballot Measure

The Messenger reports: Arizona Governor Katie Hobbs endorsed an abortion ballot initiative that could appear on the November 2024 ballot earlier this week. Hobbs signed a petition form for the “Arizona Abortion Access Act,” which would guarantee the right to abortion in the state constitution by making abortion a “fundamental right” until fetal viability. The ballot initiative is being spearheaded …

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