The bill targets a Huntsville-area abortion clinic that was forced by GOP legislators three years ago to relocate across the street from an empty school, which was later renovated and is now the Academy for Academics and Arts.
The measure would force providers to follow 16-year-old FDA protocols for medication abortion care, rather than updated evidence-based practices supported by the medical community.
Democratic lawmakers in New Mexico have successfully beaten back anti-choice measures. But across its eastern border is a state with some of the nation's most onerous abortion access laws: Texas.
A petition filed with the U.S. Supreme Court Tuesday seeks to revive a state law requiring abortion doctors have admitting privileges at local hospitals.
“The fear that accessing [health] services will get you deported is very real in undocumented communities,” said Alma Leyva, a research coordinator at the UCLA Labor Center’s Dream Resource Center.
Sam Brownback, a staunchly anti-choice governor, said in January that he would cut off Medicaid funding for Planned Parenthood. That came months after the release of deceptively edited, surreptitiously recorded videos smearing Planned Parenthood officials.
The Supreme Court is set to hear the second direct challenge to the Affordable Care Act's birth control benefit Wednesday. Here's what to look out for during oral arguments.