LITTLE ROCK, Arkansas — A federal judge blocked three new abortion restrictions in Arkansas minutes before they were set to take effect Wednesday, including a measure that opponents say would likely force the state’s only surgical abortion clinic to close. ...
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The federal government appealed a Maryland judge’s recent injunction blocking the implementation of changes to the Title X program and is seeking a stay while the appeal is pending. Last month, U.S. District Court Judge Richard D. Bennett became the ...
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A federal judge has granted Baltimore’s request to block a federal regulation that would prohibit clinics receiving federal funds from referring patients for abortions. U.S. District Court Judge Richard D. Bennett last week granted the city a preliminary injunction covering ...
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SAN FRANCISCO — California and 20 other Democratic-led states announced they were challenging the Trump administration’s effort to set up obstacles for women seeking abortions, including barring taxpayer-funded family planning clinics from referring patients to abortion providers. California Attorney General ...
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Baltimore’s Board of Estimates on Wednesday will consider a recommendation that the city pay more than $1 million in attorney’s fees to a Christian-based health organization that successfully challenged an ordinance that required pregnancy centers opposed to abortion and artificial ...
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Maryland’s congressional delegation and Baltimore City officials denounced Monday a proposed federal rule that they say could restrict access to women’s health and reverse work made to improve health outcomes, especially for poor women. A proposed rule change at the ...
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The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday declined without comment to hear Baltimore’s appeal of a lower-court decision striking down a city ordinance that required pregnancy centers opposed to abortion and artificial birth control to notify patients the facilities do not offer services for terminating or preventing pregnancies.
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A sharply divided U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday likely killed a Baltimore ordinance that required pregnancy centers opposed to abortion and artificial birth control to notify patients the facilities do not offer services for terminating or preventing pregnancies.
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The Supreme Court is rejecting a suggestion by the Trump administration that lawyers for the American Civil Liberties Union might deserve to be sanctioned in the case of a pregnant immigrant teen it helped obtain an abortion.
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A Trump administration proposal that would cut off funding for Planned Parenthood nationally would not significantly impact Maryland thanks to a recently passed state law.
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