President Joe Biden said on Thursday that he would support making an exception to the filibuster — the 60-vote threshold in the Senate needed to
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CVS and Rite Aid limiting purchases of emergency contraception
By Virginia Langmaid and Naomi Thomas | CNN Some large drug store chains are limiting purchases of emergency contraception to three pills per customer, company
Feds working to maintain abortion pill access, says HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra
Health Secretary Xavier Becerra said Tuesday that the federal government will work to ensure access to abortion pills and explore other means to ensure women
Green Day’s Billie Joe Armstrong says he’ll renounce his US citizenship over Roe v. Wade reversal
By Hannah Ryan | CNN Green Day frontman Billie Joe Armstrong has told fans at a concert that he intends to renounce his United States
Supreme Court overturns Roe v. Wade; states can ban abortion
By MARK SHERMAN WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Friday stripped away the nation’s constitutional protections for abortion that had stood for nearly a
Live updates | Supreme Court overturns Roe v. Wade
By The Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — SACRAMENTO, Calif. – The Democratic governors of California, Washington and Oregon on Friday vowed to protect reproductive rights
Supreme Court overturns Roe v. Wade, paving way for states to ban abortion
By MARK SHERMAN | The Associated Press WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Friday ended constitutional protections for abortion that had stood in America for
Search for Supreme Court leaker falls to former Army colonel
By JESSICA GRESKO WASHINGTON (AP) — When Gail Curley began her job as Marshal of the U.S. Supreme Court less than a year ago, she
Abortion rights backers rally in anger over post-Roe future
By ASHRAF KHALIL and DAVID SHARP WASHINGTON (AP) — Abortion rights supporters demonstrating at hundreds of marches and rallies Saturday expressed their outrage that the
Signs of the times: What protesters are carrying at Saturday’s abortion rights rallies in Southern California
Anybody who participates in a march or rally is sending a message just by being there, but many choose to carry signs to make their
With Roe v. Wade in peril, Women’s March rallies return to Southern California on May 14
Tens of thousands of people are expected to take to the streets and gather in parks across Southern California on Saturday, May 14, for rallies
Blocked Senate bill would make Roe v. Wade law, expand it
By MARY CLARE JALONICK WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer said Democrats’ abortion legislation is “very simple,” as it would enshrine into federal
California will protect abortion rights, state, Long Beach officials say
California will remain a beacon for bodily autonomy and bolster abortion rights even more, state and local leaders said during a press conference in Long
Long Beach abortion-rights supporters protest at courthouse
About 100 people marched through downtown Long Beach to the Governor George Deukmejian Courthouse on Tuesday evening, May 3, to advocate for abortion rights in
L.A. County area political leaders sound off on Roe v. Wade ‘draft decision’
Los Angeles-area congressional leaders sounded off on what appears to be the U.S. Supreme Court’s imminent strike-down of the nearly 50-year-old right to abortion, as
These U.S. companies are supporting workers on abortion
By Alex Millson | Bloomberg The bombshell leak of a Supreme Court draft ruling overturning the right to abortion has put the issue to the