NEW YORK — Taking the offensive after Election Day setbacks, Planned Parenthood and its allies filed lawsuits Wednesday in North Carolina, Missouri and Alaska challenging laws that they view as unconstitutional restrictions on abortion. “We are going to fight back ...

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A woman who alleged a failed, negligently performed abortion led to the birth of her severely disabled son has been awarded a $6.5 million default judgment in Baltimore federal court against a Frederick OB/GYN facility and its medical staff.

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WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court has rejected appeals from Mississippi and Wisconsin seeking to put in place restrictions on abortion clinics that were struck down by lower courts. The justices on Tuesday refused to hear appeals involving laws that would ...

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WASHINGTON — A physician who performs abortions at a Washington hospital filed a federal civil rights complaint Monday alleging that she’s been unfairly barred from speaking publicly about her view that abortion is an essential procedure for women’s health. The ...

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WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Friday blocked enforcement of a Louisiana law that could force all but one of the state’s abortion clinics to close, a sign that a similar law in Texas also could be in peril. The ...

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WASHINGTON  — The Supreme Court appeared sharply divided Wednesday over Texas abortion clinic regulations in its biggest abortion case in nearly a quarter-century. In 90 minutes of intense arguments, the court’s liberals and conservatives signaled that there’s little common ground ...

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WASHINGTON  — The Supreme Court challenge to a Texas law that has dramatically reduced the number of abortion clinics in the state is the justices’ most significant case on the hot-button issue in nearly a quarter-century. One of this election-year ...

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Maryland’s top court on Monday unanimously upheld the state’s refusal to disclose the names of administrators, owners and medical directors who have applied for licenses to open surgical facilities that perform abortions.

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Citing slayings and harassment of abortion providers in other states, an attorney for Maryland defended before the state’s top court Monday a government agency’s refusal to disclose publicly the names of individuals seeking licenses to open surgical facilities that perform abortions.

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Maryland’s top court on Monday will hear a challenge to the state’s refusal to disclose the names of administrators, owners and medical directors who have applied for licenses to open surgical facilities that perform abortions.

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