The administration of President Joe Biden condemns Indiana's new ban on abortions, calling it another extreme attempt by Republicans to trample women's rights.
The first bill, the “Women’s Health Protection Act,” adopted only with Democratic support, would legalise abortion throughout the United States.
Thousands of people gathered in major cities to protest against the Supreme Court's decision to overturn the landmark 50-year-old Roe v Wade case, removing a federal right to an abortion.
The conservative-dominated court overturned the landmark 1973 "Roe v Wade" decision that enshrined a woman's right to abortion, and said individual states can permit or restrict the procedure themselves.
Protesters demanded to keep abortion rights after US Supreme Court’s opinion draft leaked to the media that would overturn the landmark Roe v Wade ruling, which supports abortion rights.
Senate falls far short in its effort toward enshrining Roe v Wade abortion access as federal law, blocked by a Republican filibuster in a blunt display of America's partisan divide over landmark court decision.
Oklahoma Governor Kevin Stitt signs bill that bans abortion after six weeks of pregnancy, immediately outlawing almost all abortions in the south-central American state.
The draft published by Politico late on Monday said a majority of the court is prepared to overrule the landmark 1973 decision in Roe v. Wade that legalised abortion nationwide.
The 98-page draft majority opinion calls the landmark 1973 Roe v. Wade decision enshrining the right to abortion "egregiously wrong from the start."
Senators took the opportunity to publicly interview President Trump’s nominee for the Supreme Court and asked him several divisive topics, including investigating or prosecuting a sitting president.
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