If either of the Republican proposals to overhaul the nation’s health insurance rules become enacted, it would lead to an early use of Maryland’s new law providing funding for Planned Parenthood in the federal government’s place. Both the health insurance plan released by ...

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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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Maryland is set to increase access to contraceptive care for both women and men, a move supporters say will provide the most comprehensive birth-control coverage in the country. Insurers will no longer be allowed to charge co-pays for most forms ...

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WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court has rejected an anti-abortion group’s bid to force disclosure of confidential Planned Parenthood and federal government records about a contract for family planning services in New Hampshire. The justices on Monday let stand a ruling ...

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More than six dozen Democratic state legislators are calling on Gov. Larry Hogan to commit to continued funding of Planned Parenthood. The letter signed by 74 state delegates and senators was in response to a letter sent to Hogan’s budget ...

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WASHINGTON — A divided House voted Friday to block Planned Parenthood’s federal funds for a year, as Republican leaders tried to keep GOP outrage over abortion from spiraling into an impasse with President Barack Obama that could shut down the ...

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WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court is refusing to allow Arizona to enforce stringent restrictions on medical abortions while a challenge to those rules plays out in lower courts.

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