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Utah Senator Proposes Resolution to Further Limit Access to Safe Abortion Care

Utah Senator Mike Lee has formalized his anti-choice compatriots' House remarks into a new Senate resolution.

Utah Senator Mike Lee has formalized his anti-choice compatriots’ House remarks into a new Senate resolution.

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Attempts to Use Gosnell Case to Restrict Abortion Access Failing, But Antis Continue to Push

More lawmakers are using the Gosnell trial to create TRAP laws, but their bills are going nowhere.

More lawmakers are using the Gosnell trial to create TRAP laws, but their bills are going nowhere.

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While We’re Debating the Gosnell Case, Anti-Choicers Are Getting to Work

We're ignoring a growing movement by anti-choice forces to twist a case of plain and simple negligence into a call for rolling back abortion rights altogether.

Abortion providers and the women they serve are already feeling the sting of anti-choice legislators all too eager to use the Gosnell case as a flimsy excuse for rolling back reproductive rights and access.

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Federal Court Blocks Mississippi Admitting Privileges Law

In a motion to dismiss a legal challenge to the state's ban on most abortions after 12 weeks, attorneys for the state take Roe head on and argue that the law is constitutional because it protects women.

A federal court finds that the state of Mississippi can’t enforce the provision of its TRAP law that mandates all doctors performing abortions have hospital admitting privileges.

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Separating Truth From Lies Around the Kermit Gosnell Case

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Unable to muster actual compassion for Gosnell’s victims, anti-choicers got right to work seeking ways to exploit his crimes to further reduce access to safe, legal abortion, and to create more Gosnells in the future.

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Slew of Anti-Choice Bills Headed to North Dakota Governor’s Desk, But Not ‘Personhood’ (CORRECTED)

north dakota Governor Jack Dalrymple

New bills to close the only North Dakota abortion clinic and ban abortion at 20 weeks are now headed to the governor, but “personhood” did not get approved, despite earlier reports.

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Texas Senator Denies TRAP Bill Is Meant To Shut Down Abortion Facilities

Texas Senator Bob Deuell

The author of a Texas TRAP law said Tuesday he didn’t believe the bill would lead to closure of any abortion providing facilities, or reduce access to safe, legal abortion care for Texans, even though that’s exactly what it is meant to do.

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North Carolina Legislature Proposes TRAP Law Requiring Unnecessary Admitting Privileges

North Carolina governor Pat McCrory

The governor promised he would not sign any new abortion restrictions. Will he keep his word?

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Will the North Dakota Legislature Pass a Heartbeat Ban This Week?

Arkansas recently approved the earliest abortion ban in the nation. Will other states follow suit?

Arkansas recently approved the earliest abortion ban in the nation, but it may not hold that distinction for long.

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Alabama Governor Will Sign TRAP Law Because God Wants Him To

Governor Robert Bentley.

The legislature is claiming new clinic rules are for women’s safety. But the governor will close the clinics for God.

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