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The Missouri Supreme Court has upheld a 24-hour informed consent abortion law in a unanimous decision, ruling that the law does not violate the Missouri constitution . The law requires doctors to wait 24 hours after...

Reproductive Health Services of Planned Parenthood of the St. Louis Region, Inc., et al. v. Jeremiah W. Nixon, et al, Supreme Court of Missouri, February 28, 2006 [upholding the state's 24-hour informed consent abortion law on the grounds that it...

The South Dakota Senate on Wednesday approved by a 23-12 vote a bill that would ban all abortions, excluding only those necessary to save a woman's life. A similar bill has already passed...

Three Massachusetts women on Wednesday filed suit against Wal-Mart , alleging that the retail chain is in violation of the Massachusetts Consumer Protection Act because their pharmacies do not stock emergency contraception. The law states that all...

Planned Parenthood Federation of America v. Gonzales et al., US Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, January , 2005 . Excerpt:This...

The US Second Circuit and Ninth Circuit Courts of Appeals ruled in two separate decisions Tuesday that the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act is unconstitutional because it does not provide an exception...

Ayotte v. Planned Parenthood of Northern New England, Supreme Court of the United States, January 18, 2006 [remanding a US First Circuit Court of Appeals ruling which had struck down New Hampshire's parental notification law for teenage abortions because it...

The US Supreme Court handed down decisions in three cases Wednesday, including a decision in Will v. Hallock , where the Court ruled that a refusal to apply the judgment bar in the Federal...

AP is reporting that the US Supreme Court has ordered a lower court to reconsider the constitutionality of a New Hampshire abortion law. In a unanimous decision in Ayotte v. Planned Parenthood of Northern New England [Duke...

US Supreme Court nominee Judge Samuel Alito on Tuesday told the Senate Judiciary Committee that he would keep an open mind on the issue of abortion and that the president was not...