Abortion news and information

A sharply divided Supreme Court on Tuesday allowed Texas to continue enforcing abortion restrictions that opponents say have led more than a third of the state's clinics to stop providing abortions.
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Abortion restrictions tucked into Ohio's budget are threatening to close facilities around the state and leave 2.1 million people in the Cincinnati metropolitan area–Ohio's most populous–without an abortion clinic.
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An Iowa judge ruled Tuesday that Planned Parenthood could still use video conferencing to distribute abortion-inducing pills while the organization challenges a new ban on the practice in court.
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The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday left intact a state court decision invalidating an Oklahoma law that effectively banned the so-called abortion pill RU-486, with the justices deciding to sidestep a potentially contentious case.
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In a Texas abortion clinic, about a dozen women waited Friday to see the doctor, already aware that they would not be able to end their pregnancies there.
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A third of the abortion clinics in Texas can no longer perform the procedure starting today after a federal appeals court allowed most of the state's new abortion restrictions to take effect.
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Planned Parenthood of the Heartland asked a judge this morning to place a temporary hold on a state ban of its telemedicine system for dispensing abortion pills. A Planned Parenthood lawyer said that if the rule goes into effect Nov. 6, many women will lose local abortion services.
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A federal judge has determined that new Texas abortion restrictions violate the U.S. Constitution, a ruling that keeps open—at least for now—dozens of abortion clinics that were set to halt operations Tuesday had the law taken effect.
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Lawmakers adopted a rule effectively outlawing the practice of telemedicine abortions in Iowa on a party-line vote this week.
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Planned Parenthood of the Heartland filed a lawsuit in federal court Sept. 30 asking a judge to grant a stay against a rule from the Iowa Board of Medicine that would restrict abortion access in the state.
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