The U.S. Supreme Court refused to get involved in a custody battle between an Alaska surrogate who refused to abort a fetus with a serious heart defect and the California biological parents who requested the abortion. The Court's decision leaves in place a lower court order giving custody to the biological parents.
Planned Parenthood of Wisconsin filed a lawsuit challenging state laws that restrict abortion access, including requirements that only certified physicians perform abortions and a mandatory 24-hour waiting period. The organization argues these laws violate the state constitution.
Gloria Steinem, the journalist and women's rights activist who became an icon of the modern feminist movement and co-founded Ms. Magazine, has died at age 92. She spent more than five decades fighting for gender equality and women's civil and reproductive rights.
A federal judge paused a lawsuit by Florida and Texas seeking to severely limit nationwide access to the abortion pill mifepristone while the Trump administration completes a review of the drug's approval.
Governor Maura Healey signed legislation eliminating Massachusetts' gestational limits on abortion, giving doctors final say on whether late-term abortions should be allowed. The state joins nine others and Washington, D.C. in removing such restrictions.
The Massachusetts legislature passed legislation on the final day of formal sessions that would expand abortion access later in pregnancy by giving physicians final authority to determine medical necessity. The bill now awaits Governor Maura Healey's signature.
