Supreme Court leaves Kentucky’s ultrasound law in place
In Kentucky, doctors must describe the ultrasound in detail while the pregnant woman listens to the fetal heartbeat. Women can avert their eyes and cover their ears to avoid hearing the description or the fetal heartbeat.
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News Wrap: Mexico still looking for gunmen who killed 9 Americans
In our news wrap Wednesday, authorities in northern Mexico are still hunting for the drug cartel gunmen who killed nine Americans, including six children, in a brutal ambush on Monday. Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador insisted the attacks would…
Judge strikes down new federal abortion rule
The rule let clinicians object to providing abortions and other services that conflict with their moral and religious beliefs.
‘He went to the press about it.’ Biden on the priest who denied him communion
Former Vice President Joe Biden on Friday called his denial of communion by a priest in South Carolina a “private matter,” but expressed regret that the priest had taken the issue to the press.
This year, the court will hear high-profile cases about abortions, protections for young immigrants and LGBT rights.
The U.S. Supreme Court begins its new term Monday with a docket full of blockbuster cases ranging from abortion and DACA to insanity defenses and LGBTQ discrimination. Amy Howe, co-founder and contributing reporter for SCOTUSblog, joins Hari Sreenivasan from Washington,…
In our news wrap Friday, the Labor Department reports employers added a net 136,000 jobs in September and the unemployment rate fell to 3.5 percent--a new 50-year low. But factories shed 2,000 jobs amid fears the manufacturing sector is now…
The Supreme court will consider Louisiana's law requiring doctors who perform abortions to have admitting privileges at a nearby hospital.
The law signed in May by Republican Gov. Brian Kemp bans abortions once a fetal heartbeat is detected, which can happen as early as six weeks into a pregnancy, before many women realize they're expecting. It allows for limited exceptions.
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