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Actress and left-wing activist Alyssa Milano partnered with “Squad” member Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-WA) Tuesday evening for an Instagram Live event on the topic of abortion rights and how to fight against the new Texas Heartbeat Act.

Texas Right to Life said a judge’s decision to grant Planned Parenthood’s request for a temporary restraining order against the state’s Heartbeat Act does not block private citizens from enforcing the law.

Abby Johnson said reducing the number abortions in Texas will lessen the number of women committing suicides and suffering mental disorders.

Planned Parenthood reacted to the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision not to block a new Texas law that bans abortions once a fetal heartbeat is detected by claiming the Lone Star State is “forcing people to stay pregnant.”

The city of Hillsdale, Michigan, will take up an ordinance that, if enacted, would make it a sanctuary city for the unborn and outlaw abortion.

Mississippi Attorney General Lynn Fitch filed her opening brief with the U.S. Supreme Court defending the constitutionality of her state’s 15-week abortion ban.

A full federal appeals court will rehear a panel’s decision that blocked Missouri from enforcing its ban on Down syndrome abortions.

The European Parliament will vote on a resolution declaring abortion access a human right and which demands an end to barriers to abortion, including conscientious objections.

A commissioner of Manatee County, Florida, received unanimous approval from his colleagues on the board to move ahead with a plan to explore a local county “heartbeat” abortion ordinance, even though such a ban would be more restrictive than the state’s current abortion law.

A judge dismissed Planned Parenthood’s lawsuit against the city of Lubbock, Texas, where citizens voted to ban abortion within the city’s limits.

Lebanon, Ohio, voted to become a Sanctuary City for the Unborn, the 29th city in the nation and the first in Ohio to outlaw abortion.

Planned Parenthood filed a lawsuit against the city of Lubbock after its citizens voted to become a “sanctuary city for the unborn.”

Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson signed a bill into law Tuesday that will ban most abortions in the state except those to save the life of the mother.

The Arkansas legislature has voted to approve a measure that would ban nearly all abortions, except those to save the life of the mother.

The government of Poland announced Wednesday the country is implementing a ruling that will ban most abortions save for those in cases of rape, incest, and when the mother’s life or health is endangered.

The attorneys general of 18 states are asking the U.S. Supreme Court to uphold Mississippi’s law that bans abortions after 15 weeks’ gestation.

A federal appeals court backed the state of Texas Tuesday by allowing its enforcement of a ban on most abortions during the coronavirus pandemic.

The acting CEO of Planned Parenthood said governors banning elective abortions are using the coronavirus pandemic to push an anti-abortion agenda.

Planned Parenthood and other abortion providers are suing Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) over his ban on the procedure during the coronavirus pandemic in order to preserve medical supplies for healthcare personnel who are treating victims of the infection.

Planned Parenthood and the ACLU filed a lawsuit against Missouri over the state’s law that bans abortion past the eighth week of pregnancy.

An Alabama woman has been indicted in the death of her unborn baby who was killed due to a shooting that resulted from a dispute.

The city of Waskom, Texas, has become the first in the nation to ban abortion, declaring itself a “sanctuary city for the unborn.”

Missouri Gov. Mike Parson held a press conference Wednesday in which he addressed Planned Parenthood’s reported failure to comply with both health and regulatory requirements at its St. Louis abortion facility.

Since voting for Alabama’s “Human Life Protection Act,” a law that criminalizes abortion with few exceptions if it takes effect, many of senators in the state’s legislature have been thrust into the national spotlight including on places like NBC, MSNBC

Leana Wen said Planned Parenthood is about taking care of women, and abortion bans endanger women’s health, even as millions of female babies have been aborted since the high court legalized the procedure in 1973.

On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks said that “extremists have taken over both sides” of the abortion debate and “everybody is speaking for these extreme positions.” Brooks stated, “New York started this by passing a very liberal abortion

The president of Planned Parenthood reacted Friday to the sweeping pro-life legislation taking place recently in a number of states by calling it a “terrifying time for women in America.”

Missouri’s Republican-led House passed a pro-life bill that protects unborn babies from abortion at eight weeks of pregnancy and asserts the state is a “sanctuary of life.”

On Friday’s broadcast of CNN’s “New Day,” RNC Chair Ronna McDaniel stated that she doesn’t agree with the Alabama abortion ban’s lack of exceptions. McDaniel said, “Listen, personally, I would have the exceptions. That’s my personal belief. But we are

The Missouri Senate passed legislation Thursday that contains some of the nation’s strongest safeguards for unborn babies and their mothers, including a ban on abortions from eight weeks of pregnancy and a declaration that Missouri is to be a “sanctuary of life.”

Abortion activists have called for a protest against Alabama’s new law that bans most abortions in the state as it also declares unborn babies to be persons.

Wednesday on Fox News Channel’s “Tucker Carlson Tonight,” host Tucker Carlson took on critics of Alabama’s abortion ban that was signed into law on Wednesday by Gov. Kay Ivey. Carlson argued that despite Democrats and those in the media opposing

On Wednesday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “Tucker Carlson Tonight,” Fox News Senior Political Analyst Brit Hume argued that “all-out challenges, head-on challenges to Roe v. Wade” like Alabama’s abortion ban will not succeed at this time. Hume began

Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey (R) signed the Human Life Protection Act into law, one that makes most abortions in the state at any point during pregnancy illegal, except those necessary in order to prevent “a serious health risk to the unborn child’s mother.”

On Wednesday’s “CNN Newsroom,” 2020 presidential candidate Senator Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) stated that Alabama’s abortion ban and similar efforts are “an all-out attack on women’s reproductive freedom and our basic civil rights.” Gillibrand said, “This Alabama effort and the effort

On Wednesday, the day after the Alabama State Senate passed one of the nation’s strictest abortion bans, Alabama Lt. Gov. Will Ainsworth defended the legislation, despite the sudden onslaught of national media criticism. During an appearance on Birmingham, AL radio