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Rights groups and their lawyers have challenged abortion bans in many states and some rulings have led to a gray areas in law

The state began moving children as young as 14 to the facility last year

A legal challenge has been filed to block Iowa’s new legislation banning most abortions after roughly six weeks of pregnancy

Republican governor Kim Reynolds plans to sign the bill into law on Friday, her office says

Ohio could be the fourth state to establish a constitutional right to abortion.

Ohio could be the fourth state, following California, Michigan, and Vermont in 2022, to establish an explicit state constitutional right to abortion. On July 5, the campaign Ohioans for Reproductive Freedom submitted more than 710,131 signatures for a citizen-initiated constitutional amendment to provide that “every individual has a right to…

"Florida is simply not free to exceed the bounds of the United States Constitution," the judge wrote

A new lawsuit filed by the ACLU of Illinois says fewer than 1% of the more than 2.6 million stops made by Chicago police over six years resulted in an arrest or the discovery of illegal drugs or a gun.

The court didn’t explicitly rule out consideration of a student’s race, leaving door open to interpretation of college admissions aims