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Kasich Challenger Says Ohioans Can Protest Budget

Opponents of abortion-related limits inserted into Ohio's state budget are exploring legal challenges and the possibility of forcing lawmakers to vote…

Samantha Casiano and Luis Villasana and had a baby last week who died shortly after birth. The fatal condition was diagnosed at 20 weeks of pregnancy. When Casiano asked her OB-GYN what her options were, she was told, "You don't have any options. You have to go on with your pregnancy."

A Good Friday funeral in Texas. Baby Halo's parents had few choices in post-Roe Texas

When she gave birth to her baby with a fatal condition two months early, Samantha Casiano scrambled to raise funds for the funeral. Anti-abortion advocates say Texas laws are "working as designed."

How 'defund Planned Parenthood' came to threaten primary care in rural Maine

Abortion is supported by 3 out of 4 Mainers, but a popular network of clinics that provides it alongside primary care has been shut out of Medicaid by the Trump administration, which also targeted Planned Parenthood.

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer is being criticized for comments he made to abortion-rights activists at a rally outside the Supreme Court on Wednesday.

McConnell Condemns Schumer's Comments Targeting Supreme Court Justices

Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., acknowledged he should not have used the words he did about Justices Gorsuch and Kavanaugh when he addressed abortion-rights activists at the high court on Wednesday.

Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y., says if she becomes president she would only appoint judges and justices who would maintain <em>Roe v. Wade.</em>

Kirsten Gillibrand Says If Trump Wants A War With America's Women, 'He Will Lose'

The New York senator and 2020 presidential candidate tells NPR's Rachel Martin that President Trump and some Republican legislators are taking the country in a direction it does not want to go.

Planned Parenthood Probe Prompts Legislation From Ohio GOP

Ohio hospitals and abortion providers would have to dispose of fetal remains by burial or cremation under legislation being introduced by Republican state…

Protesters gather at Ingram Park in Birmingham, Alabama, after the March For Reproductive Freedom. Alabama recently passed one of the nation's most restrictive bans on abortions in decades.

The Latest Legislation In Alabama

Prison reform and abortion are both hot-button issues in the statehouse.

GOP Voter Hopes Supreme Court Nominee Will Bolster Conservative Ideals

A Republican voter in Los Alamos, N.M., is elated that President Trump has nominated Judge Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court. She hopes this could change Obamacare and abortion laws.

"We covered a wide range of issues, and it was very helpful, very productive and very important," Sen. Susan Collins said of her meeting with Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh on Tuesday.

Collins Says Supreme Court Nominee Kavanaugh Called Roe v. Wade 'Settled Law'

Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh met Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, a swing vote in his confirmation, who said their more than two hour session covered abortion, executive power and other issues.

Gov. Mike DeWine, center, speaks between Ohio Senate President Larry Obhof, left, and Ohio House Speaker Larry Householder during the Ohio State of the State address at the Ohio Statehouse in Columbus, Ohio, Tuesday, March 5, 2019.

'Heartbeat Bill' Passes Ohio Legislature As Opponents Promise Lawsuit

Over protests from Democrats and pro-choice advocates, the Ohio General Assembly on Wednesday passed a more restrictive version of the "Heartbeat Bill."SB…

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