Abortion Ban

Governor Gretchen Whitmer said the ruling "will help ensure that Michigan remains a place where women have freedom and control over their own bodies."

There is little public appetite for severe punishments, but the women who will be worst affected will be the poorest in society, law experts tell Newsweek.

Nebraska Governor Pete Ricketts called Roe v. Wade "a horrible constitutional decision" on Sunday, and is hopeful the Supreme Court will overturn it.

The poll revealed that 35 percent of Republican-leaning respondents said women who have abortions that violates state law should face murder charges.

"It's not that we're unprepared," abortion-rights advocate Steph Black told Newsweek. "The surprise...has been more about how soon the fall of Roe is coming."

Biden criticized Senate Republicans for voting against the bill, but he did not extend that criticism to Democratic Senator Joe Manchin, who voted with the GOP.

The vote to codify the 1973 ruling is widely considered certain to fail, but Democrats are hoping it will mobilize voters in November.

"The incident was handled accordingly by cathedral security ensuring limited disruption of mass," an archdiocese spokesperson told Newsweek.

"I think that's inconsistent with what we've been fighting for," Arkansas Republican Governor Asa Hutchinson said on Sunday.

The couple had been together for 13 years—but that may have changed since the rather difficult conversation.

"If Roe falls, there will be no end to what inhospitable states will do to curb abortion access," NYU School of Law Professor Melissa Murray told Newsweek.

"We are here today to defend those who can't defend themselves," DeSantis said Thursuday. Florida previously allowed abortions until 24 weeks.

The only exception provided by the bill is for abortions that are performed because pregnancy puts the mother's life at risk.

The governor is suing prosecutors in 13 counties with abortion clinics to protect abortion rights should the U.S. Supreme Court overturn Roe v. Wade.

In every state in the nation, Republicans as well as Democrats need abortions. Supporting the bodily autonomy of women and girls should be about freedom and human rights, not politics.

"If your neighboring state doesn't have pro-life protections, it minimizes the ability to protect the unborn in your state," said the lawmaker behind the bill.

The state's six-week abortion ban was signed into law by Governor Henry McMaster last year and has been challenged in court ever since.

The measure would allow voters to decide whether to redefine "life itself" as beginning at conception.

The West Virginia House passed a bill nearly identical to Mississippi's abortion ban currently under review by the U.S. Supreme Court.

Pepsi denies the claim, saying $15,000 was sent in 2020, but the check was not cashed until August 2021 and therefore only disclosed in the Texas Ethics Commission's filings last week.

"The landscape of abortion provision is simply not going to be able to absorb all the people," Dr. Bhavik Kumar warned Newsweek about overturning Roe v. Wade.

Noem's proposal joins other anti-abortion measures recently enacted in South Dakota, including an executive order blocking telemedicine abortions.

States are making plans to uphold abortion rights, ban them or limit them should the Supreme Court decide next year to leave the issue to the states again.

The short-lived measure took effect on November 24 and sparked protests from abortion-rights demonstrators who claimed it was unconstitutional.

The court also blocked a legal challenge from the Biden administration requesting that the justices block enforcement of the law.

Roberts suggested he would be ready to rule on fetal viability while upholding other abortion rights.

SCOTUS' 6-3 conservative majority could overturn Roe v. Wade when justices take up the biggest legal challenge to abortion rights since the 1973 landmark case.

Kentucky AG Daniel Cameron appealed to the Supreme Court to have a law restricting an abortion procedure unblocked that had been banned by two lower courts.

A statement on the website read "Texas: Taking voices from women to promote theocratic erosion of church/state barriers" during the hack.

In a 2-1 ruling Wednesday, Indiana was allowed to continue enforcing laws restricting abortion consultations and procedures.