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

Saturday marks one year since the Supreme Court voted 5-4 in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization to overturn its 1973 Roe v. Wade decision — a precedent that enabled abortions of an estimated 64 million unborn babies.

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. 

FBI Omaha is offering a reward six months after a pro-life group in Nebraska received a note that appeared to be signed by the pro-abortion domestic terror group “Jane’s Revenge” threatening to “shoot up” the space where the activists were meeting.

Lombardo, a Republican, signed a bill into law that protects out-of-state abortion seekers and abortionists from prosecution in the state, “regardless of other states’ policies,” according to the report.

A judge on Friday temporarily blocked South Carolina’s six-week abortion restriction until the state Supreme Court reviews the law. 

South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster (R) signed a bill on Thursday restricting abortion after six weeks of pregnancy.

Several left-wing groups are working together to put abortion through 24 weeks of pregnancy on the ballot in Florida next year.

Bills protecting unborn babies failed on Thursday in Nebraska and South Carolina — states that are dominated by Republicans, CNN reported.

Harris framed pro-life lawmakers as “extremists” in a speech at a pro-abortion rally following the announcement of Biden’s reelection bid.

The Florida House passed a bill 70-40 on Thursday outlawing abortion after six weeks of pregnancy, sending it to Gov. Ron DeSantis’s (R) desk for final approval. 

The United States saw 32,000 fewer abortions in the six months after the U.S. Supreme Court issued the Dobbs decision overturning Roe v. Wade,  according to a report.

The Thomas More Society is looking to challenge abortion pill distribution networks in a wrongful death lawsuit it filed on behalf of a Texas man against three women who allegedly helped his then-wife abort their baby.

Democrat Janet Protasiewicz secured a seat on the Wisconsin Supreme Court over Republican Daniel Kelly on Tuesday night — but the pro-life group Students for Life Action said the real losers are the “innocent preborn babies who will face a death penalty.”

The state senate passed a bill which would ban abortions after six-weeks — around the time when a baby’s heartbeat can first be detected.

An Idaho hospital announced it will end its labor and delivery services in mid-May, “obliquely referring to recent restrictions on abortion” as one of its reasons, ABC News reported on Wednesday.

A pro-abortion group is recruiting volunteer hobby pilots to fly women out of states with pro-life laws to get abortions.

Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders signed a bill to authorize building a monument on State Capitol grounds to babies aborted under Roe v. Wade.

Wyoming Gov. Mark Gordon (R) signed a bill on Friday outlawing abortion pills, making the state the first to do so in the wake of the Supreme Court’s Dobbs decision.

The bill stops the licensing of abortion clinics by May of this year and bans the operation of all abortion clinics starting in January 2024.

Arkansas lawmakers passed a bill authorizing a monument on State Capitol grounds to the unborn babies who lost their lives to abortion during the era of Roe v. Wade.

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

Florida will be allowed to defund Planned Parenthood on June 1, after a federal judge ended a permanent injunction on Tuesday blocking part of a 2016 law.

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.

Nearly 200 left-leaning human rights organizations sent a letter to the United Nations (U.N.) on Thursday, accusing the United States of being “in violation under international human rights law” because some states have passed laws protecting unborn babies from abortion following the Supreme Court’s Dobbs decision.

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

The number of abortions in Florida was higher in 2022 than it has been in years, a trend that is being driven in part by women coming to Florida from out-of-state to have abortions.

Washington State lawmakers passed a law on Tuesday which would shield women who travel from out of state for abortions, Fox News reported.

The Texas Supreme Court rejected an effort by pro-abortion groups to silence a pro-life advocate who equated abortion with murder. 

Safe Haven Baby Boxes has established more than 130 baby boxes across nine states, according to the report.

Twenty Democrat governors, led by Gavin Newsom, are launching an alliance to promote ending the lives of unborn babies across the country.

Roughly 110 South Dakota residents used a telemedicine abortion provider in 2022 to obtain medication abortion out of state, ultimately skirting the state’s total abortion ban, according to an Argus Leader report.

A Utah Republican introduced a bill in the state legislature that would close all abortion clinics in the state by 2024 and only allow hospitals to perform abortions.

Tennessee “would become one of the top spending states” on organizations that help pregnant women in need of resources.