Activists on both sides of the abortion battle are gearing up for it to be a major issue in the 2024 election.
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The SCOTUS opinion did not take on the substance of the plaintiffs’ claims against mifepristone, and the abortion pill is already facing other challenges.
The coffee company pushed back against a step the National Labor Relations Board took tied to a store in Memphis.
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Secret recordings raise questions about Justice Alito’s impartiality, but they also reveal the weak state of legal protections against the misuse of the microphones and cameras everyone carries.
The late Justice Sandra Day O’Connor saw civic education as foundational to democracy.
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Mitch McConnell, who has announced he will step down from his role as Senate GOP leader, was an uncharismatic Kentucky lawyer who came to rule the Senate and remake the US Supreme Court.
Viewed over decades, the Supreme Court’s record on religion-related cases is more complicated than recent headlines suggest.
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Three legal experts weigh in on what the Supreme Court’s ban on race in college admissions means for students, colleges and universities, and the nation’s future.
The legal battle over mifepristone could have far-reaching effects on reproductive health care.
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Using public funds to support students at private religious schools is one thing, but establishing faith-based institutions within public districts is another.
The case stems from USPS’ deal with Amazon to deliver on Sundays.
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Employers navigating employees’ requests for religious accommodations face some confusing guidance. A new Supreme Court case could clarify – and shift the norm.
People walk by the campus of Yeshiva University in New York City.
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303 Creative v. Elenis gives SCOTUS another chance to set precedent about what happens when First Amendment freedoms come at a cost to civil rights.
Abortion-rights protesters shout slogans after tying green flags to the fence of the White House in Washington, D.C. on July 9, 2022.
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Historians of American religious history explain why the Supreme Court’s recent religious liberty rulings are an example of America’s long struggle to define religious freedom.
Islamic ethics allow for many views on abortion, depending on what kind of scriptural sources are considered and by whom.
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Islamic views on abortion are based on diverse interpretations of what’s right and wrong when it comes to the body.
A 1973 photo shows an estimated 5,000 people, women and men, marching around the Minnesota Capitol building protesting the U.S. Supreme Court’s Roe v. Wade decision.
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A historian explains why the pre-Roe anti-abortion movement was filled with liberal Democrats who opposed the Vietnam War and supported the expansion of the welfare state.
A patient seeking abortion services at the Women’s Reproductive Clinic in Santa Teresa, New Mexico.
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A moral philosopher explains what’s at stake in second-trimester abortions – and why they’ll increase in a post-Roe world.
Research shows that short spacing between childbirth and another pregnancy comes with heightened health risks.
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Many people do not realize they are delivering at a Catholic hospital, and others may not have a choice. But where one receives care has a profound impact on the birth control options they’re offered.
Joe Kennedy poses in front of the U.S. Supreme Court building after his legal case, Kennedy vs. Bremerton School District, was argued before the court on April 25, 2022.
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Kennedy v. Bremerton, a case about a public school teacher’s prayer, helps close out a Supreme Court term in which religion was often in the spotlight.
Abortion rights advocates demonstrate in front of the U.S. Supreme Court in 2021, in Washington, D.C.
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Scholars explain why many see abortion access as a religious freedom issue and what the views of different faiths are on ‘ensoulment,’ the point at which the soul is believed to enter the fetus.