Senate passes GOP-led resolution to block Biden's student loan relief plan With President Biden pledging a veto, the resolution amounts to a mostly symbolic show of congressional disapproval on a plan to cancel up to $20,000 in federal student loan debt.
A year after Supreme Court's abortion decision, Planned Parenthood announces layoffs Nearly a year after the U.S. Supreme Court rolled back abortion rights, the nation's most prominent abortion provider says it will rethink its structure and cut staff.
More women sue Texas saying the state's anti-abortion laws harmed them More women who say they were put in danger by Texas' abortion bans are joining a lawsuit that seek to force the state to clarify medical exceptions in the laws.
Maternity homes provide support in a post-Roe world, but not without conditions A crisis pregnancy center in Idaho opened a maternity home in the months after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade. The residents have more complicated stories than the home's founders expected.
He helped craft the 'bounty hunter' abortion law in Texas. He's just getting started The attorney Jonathan Mitchell is known for leveraging the law to achieve his conservative clients' goals — regardless of the potential political fallout.
Why anti-abortion groups are citing the ideas of a 19th-century 'vice reformer' Anthony Comstock pushed Congress to crack down on what he saw as harmful vices, such as pornography and contraception. An 1873 law named for him has appeared in recent court battles over abortion.
DOJ asks Supreme Court to intervene in case that limits access to abortion drug The Justice Department is looking to reinstate full access to mifespristone after an appeal to the Fifth Circuit resulted in access with limitations.
Documents in abortion pill lawsuit raise questions about ex-husband's claims A Texas man is suing three women he says helped his ex-wife obtain an abortion "without even his knowledge." Experts say documents related to the case suggest he might have known ahead of time.
U.S. judge says FDA wrongly approved key abortion pill, putting access in jeopardy A federal judge in Texas stayed the FDA's approval of the drug mifepristone and gave the government a week to seek relief from an appeals court.
Report on Justice Thomas's trips renews calls for a Supreme Court code of ethics A ProPublica investigation found the justice accepted luxury trips from a major GOP donor. The story is renewing the Democrat push for a code of ethics for justices of the Supreme Court.