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  Alito claims Supreme Court's Dobbs decision took 'courage' from all justices in majority

  Oct 2, 2026 ·Just the News(Lean right)

  The landmark ruling, which occurred in the 1970s, guaranteed a woman's right to have access to an abortion. The Supreme Court overturned the historic ruling in June 2022, which returned the issue to individual states.

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  Physicians urge rejection of Virginia abortion amendment for weakening medical oversight

  Oct 2, 2026 ·Just the News(Lean right)

  Dr. Christina Francis of the American Association of Pro-Life Obstetricians and Gynecologists, said the amendment could allow abortions by unlicensed providers in unlicensed facilities. Others argued it could weaken medical oversight and parental consent requirements.

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  Red States Just Asked the Supreme Court to Kill Abortion Shield Laws

  Oct 1, 2026 ·Mother Jones(Left)

  In what promises to be the most consequential showdown over reproductive rights since the end of Roe v. Wade , three states with near-total abortion bans asked the US Supreme Court on Wednesday to strike down blue-state laws that have enabled tens of thousands of abortions every year across state lines since 2022. The action by Louisiana, Alabama, and Arkansas was a dramatic escalation in the long

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  Public Broadcaster Books Pro-Life Doctors’ Event, Then Decides It’s Too Political

  Oct 1, 2026 ·The Daily Wire(Right)

  Virginia Public Media (VPM) canceled an event featuring pro-life doctors after the organization learned the gathering would involve… pro-lifers? The Virginia Medical Professionals for Women’s Safety says it booked space at VPM’s Richmond headquarters roughly a month ago for an October 2 event in opposition to Virginia’s proposed constitutional amendment protecting abortion access. The organization

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  Pro-life group says mail-order abortion pills violate federal law, urges Trump admin to take action

  Oct 1, 2026 ·Fox News (Politics)(Right)

  EXCLUSIVE: A pro-life group has released a new report calling on the Trump administration to take action against mail-order abortion drugs, arguing that it can enforce a 19th-century federal law to crack down on abortion pill shipments. In the report obtained by Fox News Digital, the Restoration of America Foundation (ROAF) said Democrat-led states' shield laws — adopted to protect providers in bl

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  The Post- Roe Abortion Cause Is Still Finding Ways to Loosen the Law

  Oct 1, 2026 ·National Review(Right)

  Several ballot initiatives this fall aim to codify the right to abortion and more.

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  'Drug-dealing' network shielded by blue states targeted in SCOTUS challenge

  Sep 30, 2026 ·Fox News (Politics)(Right)

  Louisiana Republican Attorney General Liz Murrill is escalating her fight against abortion pills entering states that ban abortions through two lawsuits — one targeting the providers accused of distributing the drugs and another challenging the blue-state laws shielding them from prosecution. Murrill, along with Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall and Arkansas Attorney General Tim Griffin, sue

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  Inside the Clandestine Network of Abortion Pill Mules

  Sep 30, 2026 ·Mother Jones(Left)

  This story is part of the Life After Roe package, appearing this week, which looks at the surprising resilience of the abortion access movement in the Dobbs era—and at how hardliners are doubling down on their efforts to ban abortion nationwide. When Lena walks into the cafe near an airport somewhere outside the US, she looks like any other traveler grabbing a cup of coffee before a flight. She or

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  Life After Roe

  Sep 30, 2026 ·Mother Jones(Left)

  The end of Roe v. Wade in 2022 was supposed to be devastating for abortion access across the US. Thousands of women every month—the ones who could afford it—would be forced to travel long distances to receive care. Many more women would be forced to continue pregnancies they didn’t want and couldn’t afford. The crisis would be worst in the South, the thinking went, because right-wing lawmakers wer

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  What The 50-Year Legacy Of The Hyde Amendment Means For The Future

  Sep 30, 2026 ·The Daily Wire(Right)

  Fifty years ago today, Congress put a straightforward principle into federal law: Americans who oppose abortion should not be compelled to finance it through their federal tax dollars. With widespread bipartisan support, Congress attached this restriction, named for its sponsor, Rep. Henry Hyde (R-IL), to the appropriations bill for the Departments of Labor and what was then called Health, Educati

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  Louisiana, Alabama and Arkansas sue blue states over abortion pill protections

  Sep 30, 2026 ·Just the News(Lean right)

  Lawsuit challenges shield laws enacted by the three defendant states after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in 2022

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  Doctors Didn’t Leave Idaho Because of Its Abortion Law

  Sep 29, 2026 ·National Review(Right)

  They won’t come back if it’s repealed.

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  FedEx Won’t Even Ship Some Candies. Why Are Abortion Pills Different?

  Sep 29, 2026 ·The Daily Wire(Right)

  The battle over the mailing of abortion pills arrived at the FedEx boardroom this week as pro-life activists fight to curtail the mailing of the deadly drug across the country. A group of pro-life shareholders on Monday urged FedEx to investigate the use of its services to mail the abortion pill. Introduced at the FedEx annual meeting, a shareholder resolution brought by pro-life investors argued

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  EXCLUSIVE: Trump Admin Opens New Lifeline For Expectant Parents

  Sep 29, 2026 ·The Daily Wire(Right)

  WASHINGTON — The Trump administration this week took a major step towards helping Americans prepare to be parents. The Department of Health and Human Services announced on Tuesday that unborn children are now considered “candidates for foster care,” The Daily Wire can first report. The move gives expectant parents access to federally-funded services that will help ready them to raise a child. The

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  A Leading Anti-Abortion Zealot Just Quit the FBI

  Sep 28, 2026 ·Mother Jones(Left)

  For the last year, the FBI’s co–No. 2 has been an anti-abortion hardliner oddly preoccupied with the earning potential of aborted fetuses. Back when Andrew Bailey was still the attorney general of Missouri, he tried to thwart a pro–abortion rights constitutional amendment on the 2024 ballot by arguing that “aborting unborn Missourians will have a deleterious impact on the [state’s] future tax base

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  Meet Kristan Hawkins, the “Charlie Kirk of Abortion”

  Sep 28, 2026 ·Mother Jones(Left)

  This story is part of the Life After Roe package, appearing this week, which looks at the surprising resilience of the abortion access movement in the Dobbs era—and at how hardliners are doubling down on their efforts to ban abortion nationwide. This spring, the Mother Jones team heard a lot of talking points from anti-abortion leader Kristan Hawkins as we followed her around the country for a doc

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  My Exercise In Misery Watching ‘Monster: The Lizzie Borden Story’

  Sep 28, 2026 ·The Daily Wire(Right)

  It was somewhere in the middle of the second episode, when the scheming bisexual maid dyed her hair purple and casually administered a medical abortion, that I realized “Monster: The Lizzie Borden Story” is not just bad but the worst television show ever. It was atrociously written, with mediocre acting and a downright disgusting sensibility, but that specific moment cemented its complete artistic

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  You Can 'Recruit' a Minor for an Abortion in Tennessee

  Sep 28, 2026 ·Reason(Center)

  Tennessee can't stop people from telling teens how to get abortions in other states, per a new ruling from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit. The case concerns Tennessee's Underage Abortion Trafficking Act, which criminalizes the "recruit[ment]" of a minor for any procedure that "would constitute a criminal abortion" under Tennessee law. In Tennessee, almost all abortions are crimina

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  Kristan Hawkins Helped Kill Roe. Now She’s Fighting to Control the Movement She Created

  Sep 28, 2026 ·Mother Jones(Left)

  This story is part of the Life After Roe package, appearing this week, that looks at the surprising resilience of the abortion access movement in the Dobbs era—and at how hardliners are doubling down on their efforts to ban abortion nationwide. The young woman was on her way out of her chemistry class on a warm spring day at Texas Tech when she noticed Kristan Hawkins’ tent. A blue tarp displayed

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  Nevada abortion rights group launches $1M campaign on ballot measure

  Sep 28, 2026 ·The Hill(Center)

  A leading abortion rights group in Nevada is launching a $1 million ad campaign to mobilize voters around a ballot initiative to enshrine abortion protections into the state constitution. Abortion is legal up to 24 weeks after conception in the state, thanks to a 2024 ballot initiative that passed with 64 percent of the vote....