"Poor Joshua" heads news summary that includes a required warning by Virginia judges, a separation of church and state case and the Supreme Court's abortion jurisprudence.

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WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court is taking on its first abortion case in eight years, a dispute over state regulation of abortion clinics. The justices said Friday they will hear arguments over a Texas law that would leave about 10 ...

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WASHINGTON — Abortion is back before the Supreme Court, and the justices could signal by the end of June whether they are likely to take up the biggest case on the hot-button subject in nearly a quarter-century. If the court ...

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WASHINGTON  — The Supreme Court on Monday rejected an appeal from North Carolina to revive a requirement that abortion providers show and describe an ultrasound to a pregnant woman before she has an abortion. The justices left in place an ...

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An anti-abortion group did not infringe upon the NAACP’s trademark by referring to the venerable Baltimore-based black civil rights group as the “National Association for the Abortion of Colored People” in an online article, a federal appeals court has ruled.

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A Colorado woman accused of luring an expectant mother to a basement and cutting the baby from her belly might not face homicide charges in the child's death because of the way criminal law in the U.S. has become entangled in abortion politics.

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The American Civil Liberties Union is asking a federal judge to block an Alabama law that allows a fetus to be represented in court when a minor is seeking judicial permission for an abortion.

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With thousands of abortion protesters in Washington for the annual March for Life, Republicans muscled broadened abortion restrictions through the House on Thursday after a GOP rebellion forced leaders into an awkward retreat on an earlier version.

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Two states that enacted the country’s most restrictive abortion laws asked a skeptical appeals court to override the U.S. Supreme Court’s landmark 1973 decision protecting the right of women to end pregnancies.

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A North Carolina law requiring abortion providers to show and describe an ultrasound to the pregnant woman is "ideological in intent" and violates doctors' free-speech rights, a federal appeals court ruled Monday.

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