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Joe Biden’s video announcing his reelection bid makes much of his supposed defense of democracy. If it weren’t for that, it strongly implies, he’d be ha

As it turns out, abortion foes’ post-Dobbs strategy has been even more sprawling than state-level bans and restrictions.

The latest battle on the abortion front involves the application of one of a series of 19th-century federal laws that, according to a U.S. District Court judge who cited it, "bars the mailing of abortion drugs only when the sender has the specific intent that the drugs be used unlawfully."

Employer-sponsored health plan coverage of surgical and medication abortion and related services, including travel benefits, has been the subject of extensive litigation since the US Supreme Court’s 2022 decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization.

Alejandra Caraballo Kelly CapatostoThe US District court decision to block access to the abortion pill mifepristone has threatened the most common form

Biden has shown himself to be a determined enemy of the rule of law and constitutional constraints on the power of the executive branch.

Several New Mexico towns are asking a court to rule the Comstock Act of 1873 makes it illegal to send abortion pills through the mail. 

Pro-life experts warn Sen. James Lankford that allowing abortion drugs to be sent by mail is endangering women.

The Texas judge who tried to pull mifepristone off the market called up the discredited 20th century theory in his opinion. That is dangerously misleading.

The proposed ordinance mirrors a wave of recent anti-abortion ordinances passed by cities, towns and counties, often in a direct attempt to challenge state or federal laws that protect reproductive rights.