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Abortion rights supporters say the ruling will have wide-ranging repercussions for Texans, who already face extreme barriers to accessing reproductive care.

With conflicting rulings on the commonly used abortion pill mifepristone, the US is set for a heavily contested legal fight on the issue.

The preliminary ruling from Judge Matthew J. Kacsmaryk adopts the terminology of anti-abortion groups, such as “chemical abortion,” “abortionist” and “unborn human.”

Dueling decisions over the FDA's approval of mifepristone, a main abortion pill, mark the latest flash point in the fight over abortion.

With the Comstock Act of 1873 coming back to life, reproductive care, LGBTQ protections, and a host of other civil rights are now at risk.

Michelle Goldberg writes that the hideous Comstock Act is back from the dead

U.S. Sen. Jon Tester, D-Montana, has joined the pushback against a federal court ruling in Texas that could stop distribution of the abortion-inducing drug — Mifepristone.

A Texas judge’s mifepristone ruling could lead to a nationwide ban on surgical as well as medication abortions, under the Comstock Act of 1873.

A federal judge in Texas ruled to withdraw the Food and Drug Administration’s approval of the abortion drug mifepristone, potentially making medication abortion less accessible nationwide

The Texas decision may revive an antiabortion communications provision that was never taken off the books.