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A new Texas law, in effect on Dec. 2, imposes new criminal penalties on prescribing the pills used in medication abortions via telehealth, and sending them to patients through the mail. Popular on NPR.org NPR Editors' Picks

One of the arguments that Mississippi has made as a law banning abortions after 15 weeks of pregnancy makes its way through the Supreme Court is that women have progressed enough economically to make abortion unnecessary. Before Roe v. Wade, the 1973 Supreme Court case that established a constitutional right to abortion up to 23 weeks, “there was little support for women who wanted a full fam...

Credit: Yuganov Konstantin/Shutterstock When worlds collided during the pandemic, lawyers raising children stepped up to keep their law firms humming.

In this daily series, Newsweek explores the steps that led to the January 6 Capitol Riot. "Freedom never kneels except for God," retired Michael Flynn tweeted on December 2, sharing an advertisement from the We the People Convention, an Ohio activist group. In the ad, the Convention asks President Donald Trump "to exercise the Extraordinary Powers of his office and declare limited Martial Law...

In announcing the indictment of Trump adviser Stephen Bannon on two counts of criminal contempt of the House Committee inquiring into the events of Jan. 6, Attorney General Merrick Garland said that the charges would “show the American people by word and deed that the department adheres to the rule of law, follows the facts and the law and pursues equal justice under the law.” The Department ...

Alan Leveritt, publisher of the Arkansas Times, continued his media tour earlier this week with a national TV interview explaining why we refuse to comply with a state law that punishes businesses that refuse to sign a pledge promising not to boycott Israel. He appeared on CNN with Christiane Amanpour and Julia Bacha, director of the new documentary “Boycott,” which follows our legal battle o...

WASHINGTON — If the Supreme Court overturns or guts abortion rights in a major case that was argued Wednesday, the Democratic-led Congress is unlikely to have the votes to counteract it legislatively. The fallback plan, Democrats say, is to take the issue to voters in the 2022 elections and argue that Republican victories in Congress and states could fuel restrictions on or even outlaw aborti...

What you need to know about the Texas abortion law As the U.S. Supreme Court continues to weigh whether to leave Texas's unprecedented six-week abortion ban, SB8, in place, a new law that also restricts abortion access is going into effect in the state. Starting Thursday, people in Texas will have a narrower window in which they can receive abortion-inducing medication, including the two mos...

The Tennessee DOE rejected a complaint against education about the civil rights movement as it applied to classes given before the law came into effect. Robin Steenman, chair of the local chapter of Moms for Liberty, waits to speak at a board of education meeting, where she will make a public comment against teaching "critical race theory," a catch-all phrase to denounce school curricula and...

When the Supreme Court hands down its decision in a highly-watched Mississippi abortion case this summer, access to legal abortion could end for more than 100 million Americans, including those living in nearly every Southern state and large swaths of the Midwest. Twenty-one states are poised to immediately ban or acutely curtail access to abortions if the Supreme Court chooses to overturn or...