The fundamental rights and freedoms that are guaranteed to all individuals by law, regardless of race, gender, sexual orientation, disability, or other personal characteristics.
Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham introduced a nationwide abortion ban that would prohibit the procedure after 15 weeks of pregnancy with rare exceptions. More
September 13, 2022
A South Carolina Senate committee voted to remove exceptions for rape and incest from a proposed abortion ban. More
September 6, 2022
A federal district court has ruled in favor of a Kentucky wedding photographer who challenged a Louisville ordinance banning businesses from discriminating against gay customers. More
September 1, 2022
A nurse practitioner from northern Virginia sued CVS Health on Wednesday, saying she was fired for refusing to provide abortion-inducing drugs at its MinuteClinic medical... More
August 31, 2022
James Theodore Highhouse would tell women he abused at the FCI Dublin that everyone in the Bible had sex and that God wanted them to... More
August 31, 2022
The South Carolina House approved a bill that outlaws abortion except in the cases of pregnancies caused by rape or incest. More
August 30, 2022
Robert Dear, mentally ill man charged with killing three people and wounding eight others at a Colorado Planned Parenthood clinic in 2015 could become competent... More
August 30, 2022
By TOM DAVIES and ARLEIGH RODGERS Associated Press INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Indiana abortion clinic operators filed a lawsuit Tuesday seeking to block the More
August 30, 2022
A federal appeals court said Arkansas can't enforce its ban on transgender children receiving gender-affirming medical care. More
August 25, 2022
Four more Republican-led states will ban almost all abortions this week as yet another slate of laws severely limiting the procedure takes effect following the... More
August 25, 2022
A federal judge in Texas temporarily blocked the federal government from enforcing a legal interpretation that would require hospitals in the state to provide abortion services if... More
August 24, 2022
Yelp is rolling out a feature to protect users seeking abortions from being misled about anti-abortion pregnancy centers. More
August 23, 2022
A Michigan judge on blocked county prosecutors from enforcing the state’s 1931 ban on abortion for the foreseeable future. More
August 19, 2022
Lawyers for North Dakota’s lone abortion clinic that two weeks ago closed its doors asked a judge Friday to delay the start of the state’s trigger... More
August 19, 2022
Abortions in North Carolina are no longer legal after 20 weeks of pregnancy. More
August 17, 2022
The South Carolina Supreme Court temporarily blocked the state's “fetal heartbeat” law banning abortion around six weeks as lawmakers across the street were considering new... More
August 17, 2022
The Utah Republican Party passed a resolution encouraging the banning of surgeries and hormone therapy for transitioning transgender minors. More
August 16, 2022
Donald Trump has hired prominent Atlanta criminal defense attorney Drew Findling, known for defending famous rappers, to represent him in matters related to the special... More
August 11, 2022
Abortion will remain legal in Wyoming while a lawsuit that contests a ban on the procedure in nearly all cases moves ahead, a judge ruled... More
August 10, 2022
A Nebraska woman has been charged with helping her teenage daughter end her pregnancy at about 24 weeks after investigators uncovered Facebook messages in which... More
August 10, 2022
A grand jury in Mississippi declined to indict the white woman whose accusation set off the lynching of Emmett Till despite revelations about an unserved arrest... More
August 9, 2022
The ongoing trial in Austin, which is where Alex Jones’ far-right Infowars website and its parent company are based, stems from a 2018 lawsuit brought by... More
August 2, 2022
Attorney General Merrick Garland will headline a White House event Friday that will bring together pro bono lawyers, bar associations and public interest groups to discuss how... More
July 29, 2022
The California man accused of plotting to kill Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh had an expansive goal to change the makeup of the Supreme Court “for decades... More
July 28, 2022
Gerson Fuentes, 27, faces two counts of raping the girl, who turned 10 before having the abortion. He has pleaded not guilty. More
July 28, 2022
A family is suing Sesame Street-themed amusement park Sesame Place for $25 million over claims of racial discrimination, alleging costumed characters ignored a 5-year-old Black... More
July 28, 2022
Trident Mortgage Co., a division of Berkshire Hathaway's HomeServices of America, deliberately avoided writing mortgages in minority-majority neighborhoods in West Philadelphia like Malcolm X Park;... More
July 27, 2022
A federal judge threw out multimillion-dollar defamation lawsuits against five media companies brought by a Kentucky student involved in a 2019 encounter with a Native... More
July 27, 2022
An Alabama man is lying in a Utah hospital bed on life support. The hospital says he is brain dead, while his family says he’s... More
July 25, 2022
A man pleaded not guilty in Ohio to charges of raping a 10-year-old girl who traveled to Indiana for an abortion. The 27-year-old defendant is... More
July 25, 2022
