abortion

New York has expanded legal protections for people seeking and providing abortions in the state.

The Senate has fallen far short in a vote toward enshrining Roe v. Wade abortion access into federal law. Wednesday's 51-49 negative vote almost along party lines.

Gov. Kathy Hochul has announced that New York will make $35 million available to help abortion providers boost services and security if Roe v Wade is overturned.

Elections have consequences and former President Donald Trump's additions to the U.S. Supreme Court have placed Roe v. Wade and the right to an abortion in jeopardy. What's the abortion debate like around the world and is there a debate, at all?

The bill does not include exceptions for rape or incest

"We will not be bullied into withholding abortion information from our patients," said McGill Johnson. "Our patients deserve to make their own health care decisions, not to be forced to have Donald Trump or Mike Pence make those decisions for them."

But the justices are staying out of the debate over a broader, blocked provision that would prevent a woman in Indiana from having an abortion based on gender, race or disability.

A flood of laws banning abortions in Republican-run states has handed Democrats a political weapon heading into next year's elections, helping them paint the GOP as extreme and court centrist voters who could decide congressional races in swing states, members of both parties say.

Missouri Gov. Mike Parson on Friday signed a bill that bans abortions on or beyond the eighth week of pregnancy without exceptions for cases of rape or incest, making it among the most restrictive abortion policies in the nation.

A federal lawsuit filed Friday asks a judge to block an Alabama law that outlaws almost all abortions, the most far-reaching attempt by a conservative state to seek new restrictions on the procedure.