A Republican bill winding its way through the legislature during a special session would further restrict access to abortion care, but political gridlock could endanger its passage.
The United States is among the few countries where maternal mortality rates are rising and the only country where Black maternal mortality rate is climbing.
The judge is overseeing lawsuits relating to the smear campaign the Center for Medical Progress launched in the summer of 2015, alleging as part of its "Human Capital Project" that Planned Parenthood employees were unlawfully profiting from fetal tissue donation and violating the “partial-birth abortion” ban.
President Trump promised his religious imposition executive order would end litigation challenging Obamacare's birth control benefit. That hasn't proven true.
