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News Articles: Supreme Court

Dr. Tracey Wilkinson, left, a pediatric doctor with IU School of Medicine, and Dr. Caroline E. Rouse, a maternal fetal medicine doctor with IU School of Medicine, line up outside of a conference room to support Dr. Caitlin Bernard on Thursday, May 25, 2023 in Indianapolis.

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  • National

Indiana reprimands doctor who spoke publicly about providing 10-year-old's abortion

Caitlin Bernard, an Indiana OB-GYN, has been under scrutiny from her state's Republican attorney general since speaking out about the impact of the Supreme Court decision overturning Roe v. Wade.

May 26, 2023
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By:
  • Sarah McCammon
Abortion rights supporters rally outside a Planned Parenthood clinic in St. Louis on May 31, 2019. At the time, it was the last location in Missouri performing abortions. The state's abortion ban took effect soon after the Dobbs decision in 2022.

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  • National

A year after Supreme Court's abortion decision, Planned Parenthood announces layoffs

Nearly a year after the U.S. Supreme Court rolled back abortion rights, the nation's most prominent abortion provider says it will rethink its structure and cut staff.

May 24, 2023
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By:
  • Sarah McCammon
In March 2023, five women and two doctors sued the state of Texas over its abortion bans, saying they were putting patients at risk. Eight additional plaintiffs have joined the lawsuit as of May 22.

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  • National

More women sue Texas saying the state's anti-abortion laws harmed them

More women who say they were put in danger by Texas' abortion bans are joining a lawsuit that seek to force the state to clarify medical exceptions in the laws.

May 22, 2023
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By:
  • Sarah McCammon
Autumn Hendry moved into the Nesting Place maternity home after she became pregnant, but she wasn't allowed to stay after she began using meth and alcohol again.

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  • Religion

Maternity homes provide support in a post-Roe world, but not without conditions

A crisis pregnancy center in Idaho opened a maternity home in the months after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade. The residents have more complicated stories than the home's founders expected.

May 09, 2023
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By:
  • Katia Riddle
Jonathan Mitchell, pictured on April 27 inside the statehouse in Austin, Texas, is credited with devising the legal strategy behind the near-total abortion ban in Texas known as S.B. 8.

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  • National

He helped craft the 'bounty hunter' abortion law in Texas. He's just getting started

The attorney Jonathan Mitchell is known for leveraging the law to achieve his conservative clients' goals — regardless of the potential political fallout.

May 08, 2023
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By:
  • Sarah McCammon
Associate Justice Clarence Thomas sits during a group photo at the Supreme Court in Washington, Friday, April 23, 2021.

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  • News

Justice Clarence Thomas let GOP donor pay tuition: Report

A Republican donor paid two years of private school tuition for a child raised by Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, and Thomas didn't disclose the payments. That confirmation of a published report comes from a lawyer who's represented Thomas and his wife, Virginia.

May 04, 2023
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  • Associated Press
Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis watches proceedings during a hearing to decide if the final report by a special grand jury looking into possible interference in the 2020 presidential election can be released Tuesday, Jan. 24, 2023, in Atlanta.

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  • Politics

Political Rewind: DA Fani Willis says charges due this summer; Biden announces reelection bid

Tuesday on Political Rewind: Fulton County DA Fani Willis will announce this summer whether she plans to indict Donald Trump or his allies for charges related to 2020 election interference. Plus, the future of access to the abortion drug mifepristone is up in the air. 

April 25, 2023
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  • Bill Nigut ,
  • Natalie Mendenhall ,
  • and 1 more
Security fencing is seen as people visit the Supreme Court on April 19.

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  • Law

Justice Thomas gifts scandal highlights 'double standard' for ethics in government

Ethics watchdogs are raising alarms after a report showed Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas accepted lavish gifts without disclosing them as required.

April 24, 2023
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  • Domenico Montanaro
The Supreme Court's legitimacy is once again being called into question after news broke that Justice Clarence Thomas failed to disclose 20 years of lavish trips paid for by a billionaire Republican donor.

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  • Politics

Congress has clashed with Supreme Court justices over ethics in the past

The Thomas-Crow connection recalls past relationships that caught the attention of Congress, resulting in hearings that undermined a potential chief justice and the court's longest-serving member.

April 22, 2023
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  • Ron Elving
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  • Politics

Political Rewind: SCOTUS continues abortion drug access, DeKalb autopsy of slain protestor complete

Thursday on Political Rewind: The Supreme Court is temporarily allowing access to the abortion drug mifepristone while it decide if it will permit the medication's use. Meanwhile, the DeKalb County autopsy of Manuel Teran, the activist killed at the planned police training center, shows no gunpowder residue on their hands.

April 20, 2023
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  • Bill Nigut ,
  • Natalie Mendenhall ,
  • and 1 more
Boxes containing doses of the abortion pill mifepristone are laid out at the Hope Clinic in Illinois. The Comstock Act of 1873, which outlawed the distribution of "obscene" materials such as contraception, is being cited as a basis for blocking the mailing of mifepristone.

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  • National

Why anti-abortion groups are citing the ideas of a 19th-century 'vice reformer'

Anthony Comstock pushed Congress to crack down on what he saw as harmful vices, such as pornography and contraception. An 1873 law named for him has appeared in recent court battles over abortion.

April 18, 2023
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  • Sarah McCammon
Demonstrators rally in support of abortion rights at the Supreme Court in Washington, D.C., on Saturday.

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  • National

Across the country, abortion rights advocates rally in support of abortion pill access

A judge in Texas issued a ruling that could severely restrict mifepristone access in the U.S., making the future of a drug used in about half of American abortions uncertain.

April 15, 2023
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By:
  • Kaitlyn Radde
The abortion drug mifepristone.

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  • Law

Supreme Court briefly puts on hold lower court's limits on abortion drug mifepristone

Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito has placed a hold on a lower court ruling that restricts access to the abortion drug mifepristone until Wednesday night.

April 15, 2023
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By:
  • Ximena Bustillo and
  • Lexie Schapitl
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  • National

Documents in abortion pill lawsuit raise questions about ex-husband's claims

A Texas man is suing three women he says helped his ex-wife obtain an abortion "without even his knowledge." Experts say documents related to the case suggest he might have known ahead of time.

April 10, 2023
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  • Sarah McCammon
Mifepristone is part of a two-drug protocol that a recent study showed was used in 98% of medication abortions in 2020.

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  • Health

Judges' dueling decisions put access to a key abortion drug in jeopardy nationwide

A federal judge in Texas stayed the FDA's approval of the drug mifepristone, while a federal judge in Washington state blocked any FDA change in access.

April 08, 2023
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  • Sarah McCammon
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