Senate Republicans failed on Wednesday to invoke cloture on a bill legislating care for infants “born alive” during attempted abortions, with the motion largely serving to get

House and Senate committees took the first testimony of legislation dealing with abortion in the 2025 session, one to create a criminal penalty for transporting a minor to get the procedure without parental consent and the other to mandate the general reporting of abortion statistics.

Texas abortion restrictions are among the strictest in the nation, banning the procedure unless a pregnant person has a "life-threatening condition."

Idaho, Kansas and Missouri can proceed with their push against abortion pill mifepristone, a judge in Texas ruled Thursday. The big picture: The Republican-led states are seeking

The constitutional amendment approved by Missouri voters protects abortion access until the point of fetal viability, when a fetus can survive on its own outside the womb without extraordinary medical interventions.

The Republican supermajority in the Missouri Legislature contends rolling back some, if not all, of the abortion rights protected under the new amendment still adheres to voters’ wishes.

An incoming new president and state legislative sessions ramping up are likely to bring more changes to abortion policy across the U.S., which is still settling after the seismic shift in 2022 when the U.

If the Supreme Court sides with South Carolina, it would mean patients and providers can’t file lawsuits to enforce the Medicaid Act and we could expect many other conservative-led states to move to exclude Planned Parenthood from their Medicaid programs,

President-elect Trump campaigned on leaving abortion decisions to the states, but that could prove a tough promise to keep as he returns to the Oval Office. Anti-abortion groups want Trump

Democrats dismissed any notion of supporting "abortion after birth" and yet refused to grant legal protections to babies born after surviving failed abortions.

Asked by KOA radio's Marty Lenz this morning for his "thoughts on pardoning the J6 folks," Colorado Congressman Gabe Evans said that "you shouldn't assault law enforcement officers." Evans