abortion
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PublishedJune 3, 2021
Listen: Valedictorian’s speech against Texas abortion bill gains wide audience
Paxton Smith originally planned to talk about television and the media – and that’s the topic district administrators signed off on – but events in Austin changed her mind.
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PublishedMay 19, 2021
Down syndrome abortion bans gain traction after court ruling
Governors in two states recently signed such bills into law, and similar measures are pending in two others; most significantly, a federal appeals court said Ohio could begin to implement its 2017 law.
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PublishedMay 18, 2021
Our View: Abortion rights under attack, in Maine and nation
Bills that would make it more difficult to terminate a pregnancy come before state legislators as the Supreme Court takes on Roe v. Wade.
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PublishedMay 17, 2021
Supreme Court to take up major challenge to abortion rights
The court is taking on a case about whether states can ban abortions before a fetus can survive outside the womb, in this case a Mississippi ban after 15 weeks of pregnancy.
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PublishedMarch 7, 2021
Maine’s Roman Catholic bishop has spoken. Was anyone listening?
The use of fetus-derived cells to develop COVID-19 vaccines is not a debate worth having at this pivotal moment.
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PublishedFebruary 19, 2021
South Carolina’s stringent abortion ban suspended by judge a day after becoming law
The new law states that 'no person shall perform, induce, or attempt to perform or induce an abortion' where the 'fetal heartbeat has been detected.'
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PublishedJanuary 28, 2021
Biden to drop Trump’s antiabortion ‘global gag rule.’ Here’s what that means for abortion access worldwide.
The decades of Washington-imposed whiplash have left sexual and reproductive health and rights programs around the world scrambling to secure funding.
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PublishedJanuary 22, 2021
Commentary: 48 years after Roe, we’ll keep working for reproductive freedom
Planned Parenthood will strive to defeat attempts in the Maine Legislature to take away care or shame abortion patients.
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PublishedJanuary 20, 2021
Augusta’s Hands Around the Capitol event canceled for the first time in 48 years
The event, organized by pro-life nonprofit Maine Right to Life, usually includes a march, rally and worship at the state Capitol complex.
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PublishedJanuary 14, 2021
Our View: Supreme Court hints it favors state abortion limits
But Maine lawmakers should not enter into futile debates on this emotional issue.
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