A new data analysis adds to the mounting evidence that abortion bans have made the common experience of first-trimester ...

A federal judge on Wednesday blocked a Biden-era rule from the Department of Health and Human Services, which prohibited sharing abortion and “reproductive health care” information with law ...

A Texas federal judge has invalidated a Biden administration rule designed to protect the privacy of women seeking abortions and patients receiving gender transition treatments. U.S. District Judge ...

AMARILLO, Texas – A federal district court ruled Wednesday that doctors around the country are free to protect their patients by reporting suspected abuse, and to safeguard the health and safety of ...

Texas’ abortion laws are extremely unpopular, with as many as 80% of voters saying they’d like to see additional exceptions, and Democrats have tried to capitalize on that dissonance.

The case is one of the first direct challenges to shield laws enacted in blue states that protect providers who prescribe abortion pills to out-of-state patients.

In the years before the abortion ban took effect in August 2022, between 1,000 and 1,400 Texas minors received abortions in the state annually. There were none in 2023, data from Texas’ Health ...

The lawsuit, filed in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas, argues that the rule overreaches federal authority by limiting doctors’ ability to report suspected abuse in ...

So when I tell people I’m writing about privacy, they immediately think abortion. And so in the post-Dobbs world, abortion and abortion rights is now solely up to the Legislature. I mean, you’ll have ...

However, Texas right-wing officials have recently mounted a legal challenge to the federal policy in order to access the private medical records of patients who seek abortion care across state lines.

In the first challenge to new reproductive health privacy rules issued this year by the Biden-Harris administration, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has sued HHS in federal court, claiming that ...