heartbeat abortion law

Elective abortions up to 20 weeks continue in Iowa after judges could not agree to enact a state law passed in 2018 stopping most terminations once a baby's heartbeat is detected.

A state Superior Court judge in Georgia overturned a law on Tuesday that banned abortions after six weeks of pregnancy and once a baby's heartbeat is detected.

A majority of Americans support the Mississippi pro-life law at the heart of the Supreme Court's battle over Roe v. Wade, a national pro-life leader told CNN Tuesday.

The Idaho legislature has advanced an abortion bill similar to Texas' heartbeat bill, which prohibits abortions once a fetal heartbeat is detected.

On Friday, the Texas Supreme Court dealt a major legal blow to the pro-choice community when it ruled against a coalition of abortion clinics in a high-profile case involving the state's heartbeat abortion ban.

A groundbreaking Texas law that bans abortion if a heartbeat is detected has saved more than 10,000 unborn lives since going into effect in September, according to a state pro-life group.

This week, the U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, in a 2-1 decision, denied the Department of Justice's request to block Texas' heartbeat abortion law, which bans a woman from having an abortion once an unborn baby's heartbeat is detected.

A Texas abortion doctor said in a Washington Post column over the weekend that he willingly violated the state's new heartbeat abortion ban and is ready to be sued in order to challenge the law in court.

A new survey shows that a plurality of likely U.S. voters supports Texas' new heartbeat abortion ban.