Iowa Republicans renewing effort to pass constitutional amendment that would add language specifying the right to an abortion is not guaranteed cbs2iowa.com/news/local/at-…
Republican-dominated Iowa Senate signed a constitutional amendment that would weaken the state court system's power to review abortion restrictions, saying the Constitution doesn't protect right to abortion desmoinesregister.com/story/news/cri…
Federal break: Senate Republicans looking at late February to vote on bill that would ban abortion after 20 weeks washingtonexaminer.com/policy/healthc…
Maine lawmakers considering bill that would provide $3 million for Planned Parenthood and Maine Family Planning, which lost funding under Trump admin's "gag" rule centralmaine.com/2020/02/13/bil…
Maine Gov. Janet Mills introduces bill that would expand access to abortion by allowing physician assistants, nurse practitioners, and nurse midwives to perform it pressherald.com/2019/03/14/mil…
New Utah bill would prohibit health care facilities from throwing miscarried or aborted fetal remains away with other medical waste; states cremation and burial are two options kutv.com/news/local/uta…
West Virginia House of Delegates approved "born-alive" bill; Dem points out it "proposes to make something illegal that is already illegal" apnews.com/e8917fd76beb8f…
Federal break: Oregon & 6 other states sue Department of Health and Human Services over rule requiring health plans send two separate bills if they offer abortion coverage ktvz.com/news/2020/01/3…
Oklahoma County District Court judge refused to temporarily halt state laws that only physicians can perform abortions and can't do so using telemedicine tulsaworld.com/news/state-and…
Kansas lawmakers launched campaign to amend state constitution to make legal challenges to abortion restrictions more difficult and to make additional restrictions easier to pass kansas.com/news/politics-…
Bill proposed in Arizona would say crisis hotline only gets funding if it halts referrals to abortion-related organizations azcentral.com/story/news/pol…
Bill proposed in Michigan that would require docs tell patients medication abortion can be reversed, a concept not backed by medical research hollandsentinel.com/news/20200128/…