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North Dakota Governor Doug Burgum Monday signed one of the country’s most restrictive abortion bans into law. Senate Bill 2150 allows exceptions to the ban if it is a result of incest or abuse only if the fetus is less than six weeks’ gestation or if the abortion is is necessary to protect the health [...]

GenBioPro Inc., US maker of the generic version of the abortion pill mifepristone, Wednesday filed a lawsuit in a Maryland federal court to ensure continued access to its product. The move comes only a day after the US Supreme Court extended access to the branded version of mifepristone, Mifeprex, while the court reviews a legal [...]

On April 7, US District Court Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk issued an order suspending the FDA’s approval of mifepristone based on a lawsuit filed against the FDA by the Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine — an organization comprising four anti-abortion medical associations, and four anti-abortion doctors. The Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit then partially blocked [...]

The Biden administration Wednesday announced a new proposed rule that would increase privacy protections surrounding reproductive health records. If passed, this rule would prevent the disclosure of health information in order to investigate, sue, or prosecute individuals seeking abortions out of state. It would also serve to protect healthcare providers who perform abortions or other reproductive [...]

The Florida Senate passed a bill Monday that would ban most abortions after six weeks gestation and punish medical professionals who knowingly perform a prohibited abortion with up to five years in prison. However, there are exceptions in cases where a “woman obtaining the abortion is doing so because she is a victim of rape, [...]

A federal court in Guam Friday denied a request to reinstate a total abortion ban on the island of Guam. The Attorney General of Guam Douglas Moylan filed the motion to reinstate the ban. Chief Judge Frances Tydingco-Gatewood of the District Court of Guam ruled that the original permanent injunction from 1990, which blocked Public [...]

Five Texas women and two Texas-based doctors Tuesday filed a lawsuit challenging the state’s abortion ban for failing to provide adequate medical exceptions. In the complaint, the plaintiffs’ alleged, “As a direct result of Texas’s abortion bans, Texas is in the midst of a health care crisis.” The landmark lawsuit follows the US Supreme Court’s [...]

An alliance of several human rights groups Thursday published a letter calling for the UN to take action against abortion restrictions in the US. The letter, signed by over 100 organizations and 49 individuals, argued that abortion bans threaten “women’s lives and health on a massive scale” while the “criminalization of abortions threatens to further [...]

The US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit Monday ruled that employers who oppose abortion have a right to refuse to employ people on the basis of their reproductive health decisions under the freedom of association contained in the First Amendment of the US Constitution. The case arose over a 2019 New York law [...]

In November 2022, a petition was filed before the Supreme Court of India to allow legal recognition of marriages between same-sex couples under the Special Marriage Act, 1954 (“SMA”). The petitioner in Supriyo @ Supriya Chakraborty v. Union of India (“Supriyo”) has been in a committed relationship for ten years and is living with his [...]