The lawsuit, filed by Republican led states, is one of several legal challenges to the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act rules.
Tennessee led a coalition of 17 states that sued the federal government over a requirement that workers get unpaid time off for abortion care.
The city seeks to intervene in lawsuits by Missouri, Tennessee and Texas challenging protections for women who travel out of state for abortions.
John begins the TikTok with: "If my mom was pregnant with me today, like, let's assume in 2024 in Tennessee — a state with one of the most restrictive abortion laws in the country — she could not get an abortion,
Many of the bills filed in state legislatures across the country focus on abortion pills, abortion access for minors, and, in at least one state, how to undo protections for the procedure, The 19th reports.
Lawmakers in some states where abortion is already banned are seeking to explicitly bar abortion pills or take a step that most leading anti-abortion groups oppose: punish women who seek to end their pregnancies. It’s too early in some legislative ...
While Republican state-led efforts aim to increase restrictions to abortion care and access to mifepristone and misoprostol in 2025, JAMA authors join the conversation with their published research and commentary.
Infant mortality rates have increased in states that adopted abortion bans after the 2022 overturning of Roe v. Wade, according to a new study. Researchers from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School