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With the state's 15-week abortion law recently overturned, Planned Parenthood is now deciding what restrictions that remain on the procedure to next target in court.
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After voters approved sweeping constitutional protection for abortion in Arizona, two local doctors and Planned Parenthood are suing to void t…
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Proposition 139 is asking voters whether to approve an amendment to the state constitution guaranteeing the right to abortion until the point of fetal viability.
Many patients seeking abortion care in Iowa in the past few weeks were unaware that the state has banned most abortions beginning Monday, Plan…
The group behind a proposed constitutional amendment to protect abortion access in Montana said Friday it had submitted 117,000 signatures â€� n…
Texas wants Planned Parenthood to give back millions of dollars in Medicaid reimbursements and pay far more in fines in a first-of-its-kind case against the nation's largest abortion provider.
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Planned Parenthood is shifting funding to its state affiliates and cutting national office staff to reflect a changed landscape in both how abortion is provided and how battles over access are playing out.
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In Idaho, it’s now a crime to help a teen under 18 leave the state for an abortion or obtain medication abortion pills without parental consent â€� including when the girl has been sexually assaulted or raped by a family member or parent.Â
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Abortion is no longer available to millions living in a 1,800-mile stretch of 11 Southern states that mostly banned pregnancy terminations.
On the original version of Hot off the Wire (posted Dec. 20 at 4 p.m. CT):
- The Democratic-controlled House Ways and Means Committee is meeting to vote on whether to publicly release years of former President Donald Trump’s tax returns.
- Former Texas police officer Aaron Dean, who was convicted of manslaughter for fatally shooting Atatiana Jefferson through a rear window of her home in 2019, has been sentenced to 11 years and 10 months in prison.
- A day ahead of the onset of winter, a large swath of the U.S. is bracing for a potentially deadly weather trifecta � dangerously cold temperatures, howling winds and a significant winter storm.
- A California judge has rejected a new murder trial for Scott Peterson. The decision Tuesday comes nearly 20 years after Peterson was charged with dumping the bodies of his pregnant wife, Laci, and the unborn child they planned to name Conner into San Francisco Bay on Christmas Eve 2002.
- Two people with direct knowledge of the situation told The Associated Press that the San Francisco Giants postponed a news conference Tuesday to introduce Carlos Correa after a medical concern arose during the All-Star shortstop’s physical.
- A German court has convicted a 97-year-old woman of being an accessory to murder for her role as a secretary to the SS commander of the Nazis' Stutthof concentration camp during World War II.
- A series of lawsuits beginning in South Carolina detail the alleged sexual abuse of at least 20 cheerleaders across six states.
- The Postal Service says it will sharply increase the number of electric-powered delivery trucks in its fleet and will go all-electric for new purchases starting in 2026.
- A Planned Parenthood affiliate says it has started teleconferences with off-site doctors for patients seeking medication abortions at one of its Kansas clinics.
- A judge has dismissed part of a lawsuit filed by the defeated Republican candidate for Arizona governor, Kari Lake, but will allow her to call witnesses in an attempt to prove that she lost because of misconduct by election officials.
—The Associated Press
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