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Abortion bans set to take effect this week in Wyoming and North Dakota were temporarily blocked Wednesday by judges in those states amid lawsuits arguing that the bans violate their state constitutions.

The Supreme Court’s decision to let states outlaw most abortions is having profound repercussions in reproductive medicine as well as in other areas of medical care. Some patients are choosing sterilization rather than risking an unwanted pregnancy.

Arizona’s Republican attorney general says a total ban on abortions that has been on the books since before statehood can be enforced.

Planned Parenthood Association of Utah filed a lawsuit in Utah state court Saturday and will request a temporary restraining order against the states ban on abortion.

“One result of today’s decision is certain: the curtailment of women’s rights, and of their status as free and equal citizens,” the justices wrote, predicting dire and deadly consequences.

At least 13 states had “trigger laws” ready to ban abortion as soon as the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade. Many more are planning new restrictions. What you need to know

President Joe Biden is vowing to try to preserve access to abortion after the Supreme Court’s decision overturning Roe v. Wade. He’s calling for voters to elect more Democrats who would safeguard rights upended by the court’s decision. Short of that, his options are limited.

The Supreme Court issued a decision Friday overturning Roe v. Wade, wiping the constitutional right to an abortion.

Idaho has become the first state to enact a law modeled after a Texas law banning abortions after about six weeks of pregnancy by allowing lawsuits to avoid constitutional court challenges

West Virginia lawmakers introduced a bill to ban abortion after 15 weeks — a proposal nearly identical to the Mississippi law under review by the U.S. Supreme Court.

On both sides of America’s abortion debate, activists are convinced that the 1973 Supreme Court ruling establishing a nationwide right to abortion is imperiled as never before.

The Supreme Court allowing a new Texas law that bans most abortions is the biggest curb to the constitutional right to an abortion in decades, and Republicans in other states are already considering similar measures. So what could that mean here in Illinois?

Georgetown University law professor Lawrence Gostin says he’s worried for Texans after the state legislature passed a restrictive abortion law in an overnight session. Under the new law, people who assist in providing an abortion to face financial damages of up to $10,000. “They’ve allowed enforcement of the law to be delegated to people who may be zealots,” Gostin...