U.S. abortion laws

Pointing to the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision last year to overturn Roe v. Wade, Florida Attorney General Ashley Moody asked a federal judge to scrap a 2016 ruling that prevented the state from cutting off public money to abortion providers for health services unrelated to abortion.

A Broward County abortion clinic is fighting a $56,000 state fine stemming from allegations that it did not properly comply with a law requiring 24-hour waiting periods before abortions can be performed.

South Carolina senators rejected a ban on almost all abortions Thursday in a special session called in the aftermath of the U.S. Supreme Court decision overturning Roe v. Wade after five Republicans, including all the chamber’s women, refused to support it.

A Florida court ruled that a parentless 16-year-old seeking an abortion was not "sufficiently mature" to make that decision. The case highlights the longstanding challenges of parental consent laws.

Workers are asking Google to protect user location data and search history from law enforcement agencies that might attempt to prosecute abortion seekers.

Doctors say more of their patients are seeking permanent sterilization procedures, but some patients are reporting that doctors are unwilling to operate on people of childbearing age.

The legal battle over Florida’s new 15-week abortion ban won’t go on a fast track to the state Supreme Court, which has previously ruled that the constitution’s privacy provisions guarantee a right to abortion.

The Indianapolis Star's story about an anonymous child rape victim from Ohio who crossed state lines to get an abortion became a political lightning rod. Now a man has been arraigned for the rape.

Venezuelans are asking for more protections in the U.S. as many continue to flee human rights violations in their home country. Plus, some South Florida doctors argue lawmakers without medical expertise shouldn't be making laws around abortion. And Sundial’s Solar Series continues.

The order will create a new task force on reproductive health care that will help coordinate the administration's policies. However, additional actions will depend on Congress.

In the last two years, Mexico, Argentina and Colombia have decriminalized or fully legalized abortion. Here's what Latin America's green wave can teach the movement in the U.S.

Attorney General Ashley Moody’s office requested that the battle about the new 15-week abortion law go quickly to the Florida Supreme Court — and indicated that the state will use the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling overturning Roe v. Wade to help defend the law.