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AK AG Tim Griffin rejected an abortion ballot measure application “due to ambiguities” and called it “tinged with partisan coloring and misleading.”

Approximately 32,000 babies in the U.S. were born this year that may have otherwise been aborted, according to a study from the Institute of Labor Economics (IZA).

A Nebraska mother who aided in her daughter’s third trimester chemical abortion and helped burn and bury the baby’s remains was sentenced on Friday to two years in prison. 

One of the nation’s most influential medical organizations wrote an op-ed in The Washington Post calling for abortion with no restrictions. 

A majority of likely Republican Iowa caucusgoers are more likely to back a candidate who supports a federal 15-week abortion limit.

The advertisement frames Republican presidential candidates as extreme for supporting legislation that would protect unborn babies from abortion.

Democrats are “mobilizing” ahead of Virginia’s state legislature elections, viewing them as “the next major referendum on abortion rights.”

A federal judge issued a preliminary injunction this week, blocking Idaho from acting if a medical provider refers a woman to abortion services in other states. 

Abortion clinics in Indiana have stopped ending the lives of unborn babies in anticipation of a pro-life law that is expected to take effect.

The state’s Terminated Pregnancy Report found that the number of abortions performed in Indiana increased 13.3 percent from 2021.

Iowa Republicans released a proposal for a fetal heartbeat bill that will be debated and voted on in next week’s special legislative session.

Maine state Senate Democrats blocked a proposed amendment on Tuesday to a late-term abortion bill that would have placed a four-year moratorium on the trafficking of fetal remains left over from late-term abortions.

Americans of varying political backgrounds are finding common ground in the abortion debate even though “much of the coverage on the issue of abortion in the year since the Dobbs decision portrays America as deeply divided,” a poll found.

A new study estimates there were 24,290 fewer legal abortions between July 2022 and March 2023, after the Supreme Court’s Dobbs decision. 

A Texas man filed a wrongful-death lawsuit against three women, alleging that they helped his wife self-manage a medication abortion.

The bill would usurp states’ ability to pass strong pro-life laws and allow abortion through all nine months of pregnancy.

A majority of Floridians say they support legislation to protect unborn babies once a heartbeat can be detected, a new poll found.

Republicans in the Florida House and Senate filed similar bills on Tuesday that would restrict abortion after six weeks of pregnancy — around the time when a baby’s heartbeat can first be detected.

A woman was arrested for allegedly self-administering an abortion pill, which ended the life of her nearly six-month-old unborn baby.

A Democrat political committee centered on state legislatures is creating an affiliated non-profit to launch a pro-abortion ad campaign.

Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D) is expected to sign a bill which will enshrine the “right” to an abortion without limits.

A bill led by Virginia Republicans that would have banned abortions after 15-weeks of pregnancy failed on Wednesday evening.

South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem (R) and state Attorney General Marty Jackley sent a letter to pharmacists on Tuesday warning them that despite the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) rule change around mifepristone, dispensing abortion pills is illegal in the state.

The South Carolina Supreme Court ruled that the law is unconstitutional because it violates the state constitution’s privacy protections.

State abortion laws could impact where young people choose to live and who they choose to have sex with, a new poll found.