A Key Precedent in Conversion Therapy Case Overturned Limits on Speech

The ruling, usually referred to as NIFLA, arose from a First Amendment challenge to California law regulating “crisis pregnancy centers.”

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After Trump’s Medicaid Cuts, Patients at Rural Maine Clinics Feel the Fallout

The Trump administration has cut off funding for certain providers around the country whose offerings include abortion. Patients in Maine are among those who will feel the fallout.

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F.D.A. Approves a New Generic Abortion Pill

The decision enraged opponents of abortion, who have been pressuring the administration to restrict access to abortion medication.

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California Passes Bill Allowing Omission of Patients’ Names From Abortion Pill Bottles

The intent is to protect health care providers who send the pills to patients in states with abortion bans, and to reassure patients who fear they could be identified.

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States Face Off Ferociously Over Abortion Shield Laws

A looming constitutional battle between Texas and New York is the leading edge of the escalating states’ rights fight over the prescribing and mailing of abortion pills to patients in states with bans.

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Texas Senate Passes Bill to Crack Down on Mail-Order Abortion Pills

Gov. Greg Abbott is expected to sign the legislation, which allows nearly anyone to sue abortion medication providers and distributors.

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Gov. Greg Abbott Signs Gerrymandered Texas Map

After a bruising political fight, Gov. Greg Abbott signed into law a new congressional map. But the Republican-led Legislature, newly emboldened, has not stopped there.

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Texas House Advances Anti-Abortion Bill

Legislation aimed at curtailing mail-order abortions in Texas cleared a decisive hurdle, part of a broader push by abortion opponents to limit the procedure even in states where it is legal.

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Judge Allows Blocking of Funds to Maine Abortion Providers

In a blunt ruling, the federal judge wrote that he would not thwart Republican lawmakers’ bid to pull Medicaid funds from organizations that perform abortions.

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James Dobson, Influential Leader of the Religious Right, Dies at 89

The founder of the evangelical group Focus on the Family, he spent decades denouncing what he saw as the unraveling of the social order.

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