Texas abortion law

A lawsuit filed in Texas challenges the FDA approval of medications used to terminate a pregnancy. The judge has been asked to halt access to one drug nationwide.

A Texas lawsuit with a key deadline this month is posing a threat to the nationwide availability of medication abortion, which now accounts for the majority of abortions in the U.S.

The Texas Medical Association, which represents doctors, says pregnant people at some hospitals in the state have not received swift, proper care for dangerous pregnancy complications. The group has asked the state’s medical board to investigate the state’s 6-week abortion ban and its effects on care in hospitals. Reporter Allie Morris from the Dallas Morning News joins LX News to...

California senators have approved giving people the power to sue those who traffic in illegal firearms, mimicking a Texas law that is intended to deter abortions. They acted hours after Tuesday’s deadly elementary school shooting in Texas.

A Texas district attorney says he will ask a judge to dismiss a murder charge against a woman over a self-induced abortion.

Authorities say a 26-year-old woman has been charged with murder in Texas after causing “the death of an individual by self-induced abortion.”

The Texas Supreme Court on Friday paved the way for the nation’s toughest abortion law to remain in place in a ruling that again deflated clinics’ hopes of stopping — or even pausing — the restrictions anytime soon.

Requests for abortion pills skyrocketed in Texas after a state law that bans abortions around six weeks of pregnancy went into effect last September.  A study published Friday in JAMA Network Open, by researchers at the University of Texas, found requests made by Texans to an international humanitarian organization called Aid Access, which provides abortion medication by mail, soared by nearly 1,200%...

State-by-state battles over the future of abortion are setting up around the U.S. Republican lawmakers are proposing new restrictions based on laws in Texas and Mississippi and some Democratic-led states are working to preserve access

A federal appeals court has dealt opponents of Texas’ strict abortion law another defeat.

The Supreme Court this month declined to block enforcement of the Texas law known as S.B. 8, but allowed a legal challenge to continue.

The Supreme Court ruled that a strict Texas abortion law can remain in effect, but Texas abortion providers can sue over the ban.

The Supreme Court has ruled that Texas abortion providers can sue over the state’s ban on most abortions, but the justices are allowing the law to remain in effect.

Independent clinics are vulnerable to abortion restrictions because they lack visibility, institutional support or financial resources to comply with new regulations.

The Supreme Court is taking up challenges to a Texas law that has virtually ended abortion in the nation’s second-largest state after six weeks of pregnancy.

The court has taken up a pair of challenges to the law with unusual speed.

In only a handful of cases has the Supreme Court moved as quickly as it is in the fight over the Texas law that bans most abortions.

The NAACP is urging professional athletes to consider not signing with professional sports teams in Texas to protest the state’s controversial voting and abortion laws.

The Supreme Court has allowed a Texas law that bans most abortions to remain in effect for now.

The Supreme Court is not immediately blocking the Texas law that bans most abortions but has agreed to hear arguments in the case in early November.