Texas Bill Takes Aim at Online Speech About Abortion Pills
Abortion battles are becoming tech policy battles.
Abortion battles are becoming tech policy battles.
Most of these weren't close calls at all.
This company made a product to serve victims who don't want to go to police right after a sexual assault. Some politicians want to ban it.
Each candidate made some good points about reproductive freedom and each told some major whoppers.
The ruling means it's not child neglect for a pregnant woman prescribed medical marijuana to use it. But some judges say it should be.
She Rises Up manages to be inspirational without being sappy, like so many documentaries are.
Abortion should have been an easy win for Biden, but his incoherent answer during Thursday's debate allowed Trump to come out on top.
The decision reverses the Court's previous stay of a lower court decision blocking part of the law.
Two years after the Dobbs decision, Americans are increasingly concerned with how abortion bans affect women with wanted pregnancies.
A handful of Republican lawmakers worked with Democrats to repeal an 1864 law banning most abortions.
Plus: A listener asks the editors about the Selective Service.
A "desire to make a drug less available for others does not establish standing to sue," wrote Justice Brett Kavanaugh in the Court's opinion.
The war on drugs meets abortion...
The same survey found that thousands of women are still getting telemedicine abortions, even if they live in states where the procedure is illegal.
There are no good sides in today's Supreme Court case concerning the EMTALA and abortion.
Angela Prichard was murdered after Bellevue police officers repeatedly refused to enforce a restraining order against her abusive husband.
Reproductive freedom initiatives are advancing toward November ballots, putting the matter of abortion access in voters' hands.
The civil liberties lawyer talks to Reason about the misguided impulse to attack free speech in the name of protecting women.
"There were many of us who opposed censoring pornography...precisely because of our commitment to feminist goals and principles," says the former ACLU chief.
After the Alabama Supreme Court ruled in February that frozen embryos were children, legislators scrambled to protect in vitro fertilization clinics.
Allowing surrogacy brokers to be paid is good. Allowing surrogates themselves to be paid would be better.
Beware the “Equality Model” of sex work law reform in 2024.
A state judge ruled that a lawsuit seeking clarification on Idaho's vague abortion ban can move forward, despite dismissing some of the suit's claims.
Two women reported attacks and threats from abusive ex-partners to the police. A lawsuit claimed they were ignored.
The Court announced today that it would take up a case involving access to the abortion-inducing drug mifepristone.
Plus: BTS gets conscripted, Harvard gets down with plagiarism, cruise ships ban weed, and more...
Abortion issues come before two other state Supreme Courts—in Arizona and Wyoming—this week as well.
The Court has been asked to intervene in cases involving abortion pills and criminal prosecution of abortion doctors.
Despite state-level bans, new data show around 46,000 more abortions were performed during the first six months of 2023 than during the same period in 2020.
Plus: Court urged to stop Arkansas' social media age verification law from taking effect in September, legalizing medical marijuana linked to lower insurance premiums, and more...
For now, doctors who end pregnancies when a woman’s life is at risk can still be prosecuted.
Etowah County, Alabama, has charged hundreds of pregnant women and new mothers with "chemical endangerment" over minor drug offenses.
Plus: Does Tom Cruise really do all of his own stunts?
The FDA decision is only a mini step toward freeing the pill.
A study from researchers at Johns Hopkins is the first to look at the effects of Texas' 2021 "Heartbeat Act" on live births.
Plus: Court rules against judge who threw child stars in jail during parents' custody dispute, inside the FTC's attempt to stop Microsoft from acquiring Call of Duty, and more...
Victoria Bateman thinks "my body, my choice" should include how much clothing you wear.
Why won’t the FDA allow women to buy a safer product without requiring a doctor’s visit that medical experts think is unnecessary?
Plus: The "Kids Online Safety Act" is back and as bad as ever, expect another interest rate hike today, and more…
Americans’ opinions are more nuanced than headlines suggest, leaving little room for total bans.
"Once a woman became pregnant for any reason, she would now become property of the state of South Carolina," said one state senator.
Mifepristone will remain on the market for now with no changes to how it can be prescribed.
Schools are allowed to preserve sex-based restrictions for athletes provided they are "substantially related to the achievement of an important educational objective."
Plus: The editors respond to a listener question concerning corporate personhood.
The divergent orders from judges in Washington state and Texas may bring the battle over mifepristone to the Supreme Court.
No overpopulation doom but humanity is still at risk by overstepping planetary boundaries.
Plus: Australia's failed news media bargaining code, two ways government created an Adderall shortage, and more...
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