Regulating Abortion News Today

A new, timely book written by two UNM political science professors is diving into the critical issue of abortion politics. Johns Hopkins University Press has just published, Regulating Abortion: The Politics of U.S. Abortion Policy, by Deborah R....

With pro-choice and pro-life legislators fighting to put competing abortion measures on the November ballot, people in Mohave County are picking their sides.

The Supreme Court looms large in this spring’s university press releases, Scott McLemee writes. Each season’s batch of university-press catalogs will echo, or occasionally anticipate, developments in the news just as much as trade publishers’ listings do. And sometimes even more so, as it seems this spring—with books on the Supreme Court of the United States pushing their way conspicuously into view.

In Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Org., the U.S. Supreme Court has overruled prior precedent in Roe v. Wade and Casey v. Planned Parenthood and held that states may regulate or prohibit...

Senate bill in South Carolina,S.1373 currently pending in the Senate Committee on Medical Affairs,would not only ban almost all abortions in that state, but would also afford novel whistleblower protections,imposes criminal penalties, for any action to impede a whistleblower

A state senate bill in South Carolina, S. 1373 currently pending in the Senate Committee on Medical Affairs, would not only ban almost all abortions in that state, but would also afford novel whistleblower protections, imposing criminal penalties punishable with imprisonment