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The exterior of the South Carolina Supreme Court building in Columbia, S.C. is shown, Jan. 18, 2023. The right to an abortion is back before the highest court in South Carolina on Tuesday, June 27, as Republicans try to restore a ban that was overturned earlier this year — this time in front of the only state Supreme Court in the nation made up entirely of men. (AP Photo/James Pollard, File)

South Carolina Supreme Court decides heartbeat definition allows six-week abortion ban

The South Carolina Supreme Court has ruled the state can keep banning abortions around six weeks after conception by agreeing with the earliest interpretation offered of when a heartbeat starts.
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People rally in support of abortion rights, May 21, 2019, in Las Vegas. (AP Photo/John Locher, File)

Judge pauses old Nevada law requiring parental notification for minors to get abortion

April 28
Abortion-rights activists and anti-abortion demonstrators rally outside the Supreme Court in Washington, Wednesday, April 2, 2025. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

Supreme Court appears divided over whether states can cut off Planned Parenthood funding

April 3
A Missouri and American flag fly outside Planned Parenthood in St. Louis, June 24, 2022. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson, File)

Trump administration pauses some family planning grants as it investigates compliance with laws

April 1
The Supreme Court at sunset in Washington, Feb. 13, 2016. (AP Photo/Jon Elswick, File)

Supreme Court weighs whether states can cut off Medicaid funding to Planned Parenthood

April 1

Anti-abortion groups mount effort to strip Planned Parenthood funding ahead of Supreme Court hearing

Major anti-abortion groups gathered in the nation’s capital on Thursday to begin a lobbying effort with Congress and President Donald Trump’s administration aimed at eliminating funding for Planned Parenthood. (AP video: Nathan Ellgren)
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Missouri voters to decide whether to challenge state abortion ban

Abortion clinic opens in rural Kansas, bringing mixed emotions

Iowa’s Supreme Court tells lower court to let strict abortion law go into effect

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A Missouri and American flag fly outside Planned Parenthood in St. Louis, June 24, 2022. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson, File)

Planned Parenthood St. Louis resumes surgical abortions, while Missouri blocks others

March 28
Kristan Hawkins, president of Students for Life of America, speaks during an anti-abortion rally on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, March 27, 2025. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

Anti-abortion groups aim to end Planned Parenthood funding and suggest Musk’s DOGE to get it done

March 27

Abortions resume in Missouri as GOP lawmakers strategize possible repeal

February 19
The exterior of the South Carolina Supreme Court building in Columbia, S.C. is shown Jan. 18, 2023. (AP Photo/James Pollard, file)

When does a heartbeat start? South Carolina Supreme Court again takes up abortion issue

February 12
Cecile Richards, Planned Parenthood's president, addresses an audience during an event in Hooksett, N.H. Jan. 10, 2016, during which Planned Parenthood endorsed Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton in the presidential race. (AP Photo/Steven Senne, File)

Former Planned Parenthood president, women’s rights activist Cecile Richards has died at 67

January 20

Texas Medical Board director retires after uproar over his Planned Parenthood employment

January 9
Amendment 3 supporters Luz Maria Henriquez, second from left, executive director of the ACLU Missouri, celebrates with Mallory Schwarz, center, of Abortion Action Missouri, after the Missouri Supreme Court in Jefferson City, Mo., ruled that the amendment to protect abortion rights would stay on the November ballot. (Robert Cohen/St. Louis Post-Dispatch via AP, File)

A judge says Missouri’s abortion ban isn’t enforceable, but there’s no start date for abortions

December 21, 2024
The Supreme Court is pictured, Oct. 7, 2024, in Washington. (AP Photo/Mariam Zuhaib, File)

Supreme Court to weigh state moves to cut off Medicaid funding to Planned Parenthood

December 18, 2024
Amendment 3 supporters Luz Maria Henriquez, second from left, executive director of the ACLU Missouri, celebrates with Mallory Schwarz, center, of Abortion Action Missouri, after the Missouri Supreme Court in Jefferson City, Mo., ruled that the amendment to protect abortion rights would stay on the November ballot. (Robert Cohen/St. Louis Post-Dispatch via AP, File)

What to know about abortion access in Missouri

December 6, 2024
FILE - Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs celebrates passages of abortion ballot measure surrounded by Democratic lawmakers and advocates on Nov. 25, 2024, at the State Capitol in Phoenix. (AP Photo/Sejal Govindarao, file)

Lawsuit seeks to undo 15-week abortion ban that conflicts with expanded access in Arizona

December 4, 2024
FILE - A Missouri and American flag fly outside Planned Parenthood in St. Louis, June 24, 2022. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson, File)

Planned Parenthood challenges Missouri law that kicked area clinics off of Medicaid

August 26, 2024
FILE - The Planned Parenthood Health Center located in Chapel Hill, N.C., is seen, May 3, 2024. Planned Parenthood will spend $40 million ahead of November's elections to bolster President Joe Biden and leading congressional Democrats. It will initially target eight states: Arizona, Georgia, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, North Carolina, Montana, New Hampshire and New York. (AP Photo/Makiya Seminera, File)

Planned Parenthood says it will spend $40 million on abortion rights ahead of November’s election

June 24, 2024

Planned Parenthood Oregon leaders plan to dissolve political arm, sparking concerns about advocacy

June 12, 2024

Planned Parenthood sought a building permit. Then a California city changed zoning rules

May 31, 2024
Missouri's Republican Gov. Mike Parson signs a bill to block Medicaid payments for Planned Parenthood, Tuesday, May 9, 2024, in his Jefferson City, Mo., Capitol office. (AP Photo/Summer Ballentine)

Missouri’s GOP Gov. Parson signs bill to kick Planned Parenthood off Medicaid

May 9, 2024
Planned Parenthood Votes South Atlantic spokesperson, Emily Thompson, announces a $10 million investment into a state voter engagement campaign at a press conference in Bicentennial Plaza in Raleigh, N.C., on Thursday, April 25, 2024. The campaign will focus on canvassing, mailers, digital ads and phone banking to block a GOP legislative supermajority and Republican governor in the 2024 election. (AP Photo/Makiya Seminera)

Planned Parenthood announces $10 million voter campaign in North Carolina for 2024 election

April 25, 2024

Missouri’s GOP lawmakers vote to kick Planned Parenthood off Medicaid

April 24, 2024
FILE - A Missouri and American flag fly outside Planned Parenthood in St. Louis, June 24, 2022. Lawmakers in Missouri are trying to defund Planned Parenthood by taking it off Medicaid rolls, even for the most basic of health care services. It's a move they've tried for years in a state where almost all abortions are already banned. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson, File)

Missouri lawmakers again try to kick Planned Parenthood off Medicaid

April 22, 2024

Former Marine sentenced to 9 years in prison for firebombing California Planned Parenthood clinic

April 16, 2024
FILE - Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey speaks to reporters in Jefferson City, Mo., Jan. 3, 2023. Bailey filed a lawsuit on Thursday, Feb. 29, 2024, that seeks an injunction against Planned Parenthood Great Plains. The suit accuses the organization of transporting minors to Kansas for abortions without parental consent, in violation of Missouri law. (AP Photo/David A. Lieb, File)

Missouri is suing Planned Parenthood based on a conservative group’s sting video

February 29, 2024
FILE - A Missouri and American flag fly outside Planned Parenthood in St. Louis, June 24, 2022. On Wednesday, Feb. 28, 2024, the Republican-led Missouri House gave initial approval to a bill that would bar Medicaid funding from going to Planned Parenthoods, which are already banned by state law from providing abortions in almost all circumstances. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson, File)

Missouri lawmakers try again to block Medicaid money from going to Planned Parenthood

February 28, 2024
FILE - Demonstrators protest outside the Wisconsin Capitol, May 3, 2022, in Madison, Wis. Planned Parenthood of Wisconsin is asking the state Supreme Court to rule out a 174-year-old state law that conservatives have interpreted as an abortion ban. The organization filed a petition Thursday, Feb. 22, 2024 asking the high court to answer the question directly without letting any lower courts rule first. (Amber Arnold/Wisconsin State Journal via AP, File)

Planned Parenthood asks Wisconsin Supreme Court to find 1849 abortion law unconstitutional

February 22, 2024
FILE - A Missouri and American flag fly outside Planned Parenthood in St. Louis, June 24, 2022. The Missouri Supreme Court on Wednesday, Feb. 14, 2024, rejected the latest attempt by Republican state officials to block taxpayer dollars from going to Planned Parenthood, citing a failure in the state's legal appeal. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson, File)

Missouri high court says Planned Parenthood can receive funding; cites failed appeal by state

February 14, 2024
Protesters gather outside the state house in opposition to a proposed abortion ban debated, Aug. 30, 2022 by the South Carolina House of Representatives in Columbia, S.C. (AP Photo/James Pollard)

South Carolina woman seeks clarity on abortion ban in lawsuit backed by Planned Parenthood

February 5, 2024

Planned Parenthood of Wisconsin to resume abortions at its Sheboygan clinic within days

December 18, 2023

Former Marine pleads guilty to firebombing Southern California Planned Parenthood clinic in 2022

December 1, 2023

Missouri Supreme Court hears case on latest effort to block Planned Parenthood funding

November 8, 2023
FILE - The legal team for Planned Parenthood South Atlantic speaks outside the South Carolina Supreme Court building in Columbia, S.C. on Tuesday, June 27, 2023. In a complaint filed Thursday, Sept. 14, 2023, the team wrote that a strict new abortion ban should be interpreted to take effect after approximately nine weeks of pregnancy. (AP File Photo/James Pollard, File)

Planned Parenthood sues to expand South Carolina abortion access under strict new ban

September 14, 2023
A Planned Parenthood sign is seen in Austin, Texas, Monday, Aug. 14, 2023. A federal judge who ordered restrictions on the abortion pill mifepristone will consider Tuesday, Aug. 15, whether Planned Parenthood must pay potentially hundreds of millions of dollars to the state of Texas over fraud claims. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)

Will a federal judge in Texas force Planned Parenthood to repay millions?

August 16, 2023
Rebecca Gibron, CEO of the Planned Parenthood division that includes Indiana, speaks during a news conference outside of a Planned Parenthood clinic, Tuesday, Aug. 1, 2023, in Indianapolis. (AP Photo/Darron Cummings)

Indiana abortion clinics stop providing abortions ahead of near-total abortion ban taking effect

August 1, 2023
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