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Lawsuit over Texas abortion ban could be a model in other states

By Stateline ● National ● August 3, 2023

A lawsuit in Texas asserting that the state’s abortion ban imperils women by dissuading doctors from ending dangerous pregnancies could provide a template for similar challenges across the country.

Laws banning gender-affirming treatments can block trans youth from receiving other care

By Stateline ● Features ● August 2, 2023

Some health care providers fear running afoul of the new laws.

Campus diversity will be a struggle without race-based admissions, history shows

By Stateline ● Features ● July 9, 2023

Alternative strategies have been less effective.

More blue states declare themselves sanctuaries for transgender health care

By Stateline ● National ● June 23, 2023

States and cities are emerging as havens with legal protections to shield health care providers, transgender people and their supporters from lawsuits and criminal penalties levied by other states.

Activists aim for Supreme Court with local abortion bans in blue states

By Stateline ● National ● March 2, 2023

Nearly 70 cities and counties across rural America have banned abortion in the past few years as part of a slow-burning conservative campaign to outlaw the procedure everywhere.

As abortion measures loom, GOP raises new barriers to ballot initiatives

By Stateline ● Features ● February 19, 2023

Roused by voters’ recent endorsement of abortion rights — even in conservative states — Republican legislators are ramping up efforts to make it tougher for citizens to change laws or amend state constitutions through ballot measures.

Republicans have filed dozens of bills to disrupt transgender youth healthcare

By Stateline ● Features ● February 12, 2023

Republican lawmakers in more than half the states are continuing a party-line push to restrict doctors and other medical providers from offering some gender-affirming health care to minors, even with parents’ consent.

GOP leaders in some states want to add abortion ban exceptions

By Stateline ● Features ● February 1, 2023

Even as anti-abortion legislators and advocates celebrated, they considered how much further they could go — perhaps by barring Tennesseans from seeking abortions in other states, or by restricting contraception.