Can States Legally Ban Emergency Abortions?

“Hospitals in many amici States are already experiencing strains, resulting in overcrowding, long wait times, and staff shortages, particularly in rural and underserved areas, all of which can affect morbidity and mortality,” the brief said. “Providing medical treatment to additional Continue reading Can States Legally Ban Emergency Abortions?

Two Supreme Court Justices Favor Zombie Law From 1873 to Ban Abortion

The Comstock Act gets shorthanded as an anti-obscenity law—which it is—but it’s also an anti-abortion law, making it a crime to use the mail to send or receive any device or object that could cause an abortion. Legal scholars have Continue reading Two Supreme Court Justices Favor Zombie Law From 1873 to Ban Abortion

Supreme Court Upholds Insurrection Ban on Official Who’s Not Trump

The Supreme Court has declined to hear a case that, on its face, appears to set a double standard for Donald Trump and every other private citizen in this country. On Monday, the nation’s conservative-majority high court upheld a ban Continue reading Supreme Court Upholds Insurrection Ban on Official Who’s Not Trump

House Republicans Proudly Endorse National Abortion Ban, Limits to IVF

House Republicans have released their proposed budget for 2025, and it includes giving rights to embryos—despite the GOP’s big statements about how much they support in vitro fertilization. The budget, released Wednesday by the Republican Study Committee, or RSC, states Continue reading House Republicans Proudly Endorse National Abortion Ban, Limits to IVF

Biden Considers Using Same Authority As Trump for Sweeping Asylum Ban

Biden summarized his various business ventures over the past couple decades, which included a few partnerships with his nephew Hunter. But Joe Biden “played no role, was not involved with, and received no benefits,” his brother said. Republicans have also Continue reading Biden Considers Using Same Authority As Trump for Sweeping Asylum Ban

‘We will lose those babies’: Iranian doctor sees effects of travel ban

Story highlights A fetal surgeon in Texas canceled a trip to perform life-saving operations in Iran “Because I couldn’t go and do the surgeries, then definitely, we will lose those babies,” he says CNN  —  By the time President Donald Continue reading ‘We will lose those babies’: Iranian doctor sees effects of travel ban

China’s fentanyl ban a ‘game-changer’ for opioid epidemic, DEA officials say

Story highlights China to ban the manufacture of four variations of the powerful synthetic opioid fentanyl “It’s a potential game-changer,” a DEA official says CNN  —  China will ban the manufacture and sale of four variations of the synthetic drug Continue reading China’s fentanyl ban a ‘game-changer’ for opioid epidemic, DEA officials say

The Zombie Law Trump Wants to Use to Ban Abortion Nationwide

Dickson, Mitchell’s partner in Comstock, told Littlefield that such ordinances were “de facto” bans on abortion, achieved by prohibiting clinics  use of the mail. “If an abortion facility cannot receive abortion-inducing drugs or any abortion paraphernalia,” he explained, “then how Continue reading The Zombie Law Trump Wants to Use to Ban Abortion Nationwide

What Will It Take for the EPA to Ban a Pesticide Linked to Parkinson’s?

For decades, an anti-regulatory ideology has seeped into our government like atrazine leaching into our groundwater. But the EPA’s problems are more directly a result of deliberate interference by industry. Agribusiness spends heavily on lobbying the EPA and on extensive Continue reading What Will It Take for the EPA to Ban a Pesticide Linked to Parkinson’s?