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The Republican-led New Hampshire Legislature on Thursday passed a two-year state budget that includes not only $13.5 billion in spending but tax cuts, abortion restrictions and controversial education programs and policies. When Democrats controlled both chambers two years ago, Republican Gov. Chris Sununu vetoed the budget and forced the state to operate under a temporary spending plan until a compromise…

When U.S. Catholic bishops convene virtually for a national meeting this week, they will be divided ideologically as well as physically

Paxton Smith, the valedictorian at Lake Highlands High School in Dallas, Texas, wasn’t sure if her mic would be cut when she made a graduation speech against a recently passed abortion law in the state. The law prohibits abortion if a doctor can detect a fetal heartbeat, which often occurs before a woman even knows she’s pregnant.

The most conservative Supreme Court in nearly a century could deliver two major decisions on abortion and gun rights that pack a political punch just months before next year’s elections. Democrats are bracing for the court’s 6-3 conservative majority to deliver potentially blockbuster defeats but are already preparing to try to turn the losses into victories at the ballot box. Democrats are betting...

Protesters yell and wave signs outside Mississippi’s only abortion clinic on the three or four days it is open each week

Texas became the largest state Wednesday with a law that bans abortions before many women even know they are pregnant, but with a unique provision that essentially leaves enforcement to private citizens through lawsuits against doctors or anyone who helps a woman get an abortion.

A large portion of Republicans in a recent poll ranked abortion as the number one issue facing the country right now, while it hardly registered among Democrats. So a Supreme Court decision in the Mississippi abortion case next year could shape the course of the 2022 races, NBCLX Political Editor Noah Pransky explains.

The U.S. Supreme Court will hear arguments about a Mississippi law banning abortions after 15 weeks of pregnancy. Abortion opponents are emboldened by the conservative court’s decision to hear the case, says Leah Litman, law professor at University of Michigan.

About 40% of all abortions in the U.S. are now done through medication — rather than surgery — and that option has become all the more pivotal during the COVID-19 pandemic

The Supreme Court will hear a plea from the Republican attorney general of Kentucky to allow him to defend a state abortion law, HB 454.

At an intense pace, lawmakers in Republican-governed states are considering an array of tough anti-abortion restrictions they hope might reach the Supreme Court and win approval from its conservative majority.

Contentious moments at the New Hampshire House of Representatives’ legislative session on Wednesday were sparked by two controversial abortion bills. “I’m still processing it, to tell you the truth,” explained Republican Deputy House Speaker Steven Smith. Earlier in the day, the Republican-led House passed the Fetal Life Protection Act, which would ban abortions after 24 weeks, unless there is a…

Work resumed Thursday for the New Hampshire House, where some Democrats left in protest a day earlier over proposed abortion bills.

South Carolina’s governor has signed a bill banning most abortions

An Arizona Senate panel has approved a measure that bans medical providers from performing an abortion when a fetus has a genetic abnormality such as Down Syndrome. A Republican-majority state Senate panel on Thursday approved SB 1457, which includes several anti-abortion provisions. Arizona is among several states attempting to enact abortion regulations as Roe v. Wade’s future remains uncertain with a...

Argentina’s groundbreaking abortion law has gone into force under the watchful eyes of women’s groups and government officials, who hope to ensure its full implementation despite opposition from conservative and church groups.

Anti-abortion leaders who were elated a year ago when Donald Trump became the first sitting U.S. president to appear in person at the annual March for Life are feeling less buoyant now.

President-elect Joe Biden is poised to roll back several of the Trump administration’s most restrictive sexual and reproductive health policies, including limits on abortion, NBC News reports.

The Supreme Court has ordered that women must visit a doctor’s office, hospital or clinic in person to obtain an abortion pill during the COVID-19 pandemic.

In a growing consensus, religious leaders at the forefront of the U.S. anti-abortion movement are telling followers that the leading vaccines available to combat COVID-19 are acceptable to take.