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VA's Court of Appeals will hear the appeal in a lawsuit about the state’s proposed pro-abortion amendment instead of sending it to the state supreme court.
Read →Illinois threatened to punish Catholic nuns simply for telling a dying patient not to kill herself. A federal judge shut that threat down less than a day before the law was...
Read →Planned Parenthood is suing Wisconsin to let non-doctors perform abortions. The judge who might decide the case used to work for Planned Parenthood herself. Now that same court could decide whether unborn...
Read →The Indiana Supreme Court heard arguments on a religious-freedom challenge to abortion restrictions in the state. The case involves plaintiffs' claims and the history of injunctions that prompted the state's appeal.
Read →Cooke describes two British couples facing the destruction of stored embryos after sperm donors withdrew consent. She discusses their calls for legal change and frames the dispute around the moral status of embryos.
Read →The Catholic objectors will be shielded from the law while a federal lawsuit plays out against the state policy. [...]
Read →A federal judge on September 11 issued a temporary restraining order blocking Illinois from enforcing its physician-assisted suicide law against Catholic entities, including Cardinal Blase J. Cupich, two orders of Catholic women religious, and an Illinois pharmacist, who argued the law would force them to facilitate assisted suicides in violation of their faith.
Read →A federal judge issued a temporary restraining order on September 11 blocking Illinois from enforcing its physician-assisted suicide law against Cardinal Blase J. Cupich, two orders of Catholic women religious, and an Illinois pharmacist who challenged the law in court.
Read →Surrogate McKenna West, who fled to Texas after refusing to abort a child diagnosed with hypoplastic left heart syndrome, has filed an emergency application asking the Supreme Court to block a California court order recognizing the biological parents as the legal parents. Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton intervened in the custody battle, and a Texas judge ordered life-saving care for the child and prohibited removal from the state, but West was dismissed from the case and now seeks to participate in medical decisions and prevent the child from being moved to California for hospice care.
Read →A federal judge issued a temporary order blocking Illinois from enforcing its assisted suicide law against the Archdiocese of Chicago and two Catholic religious sister groups while a federal lawsuit proceeds. The lawsuit argues that the law infringes on religious liberty by compelling Catholic healthcare providers to participate in assisted suicide, and similar lawsuits have been filed by other Catholic healthcare organizations and professionals in Illinois.
Read →Flanders reports on an indictment alleging that a Kentucky man replaced his pregnant girlfriend's medication with an abortion drug without her knowledge. She summarizes the reported evidence and places the allegation alongside other cases of coerced or nonconsensual abortion.
Read →Cooke reports that a federal judge temporarily blocked Illinois assisted-suicide legislation following a challenge by religious plaintiffs. She distinguishes that action from a separate disability-rights lawsuit and outlines the law's scheduled implementation.
Read →Americans United for Life filed an amicus brief supporting an emergency application for an administrative stay in the case M.W. v.
Read →Thomas More Society announces additional organizational and individual plaintiffs in its challenge to Illinois’s assisted-suicide law. The release seeks expanded protection for healthcare professionals who object to informing, referring, or participating on religious and conscience grounds.
Read →A federal judge denied a request from disability rights advocates to block the Illinois assisted suicide law from going into effect on September 12, 2026, rejecting arguments that the law violates the Americans with Disabilities Act and other protections. The judge noted that one plaintiff, a quadriplegic woman, did not demonstrate harm under the law and questioned the standing of the plaintiffs, while giving them 30 days to appeal the decision.
Read →Sielicki reports that the Idaho Supreme Court approved descriptive language for an abortion-related ballot proposition. She outlines the initiative's potential effect on existing restrictions and the court's rejection of objections to the wording.
Read →Disability rights organizations petitioned a federal judge to block the Illinois assisted suicide law scheduled to take effect on September 12, 2026, arguing it violates the Americans with Disabilities Act and discriminates against disabled people due to potential physician bias and coercion. Additionally, Chicago Archbishop Cardinal Blase Cupich and two orders of Catholic nuns filed a lawsuit claiming the law infringes on constitutional protections for free speech and religious freedom, while a judge is expected to decide on the law's legality before its implementation date.
Read →The U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals heard arguments in the Louisiana vs FDA case regarding the FDA's 2023 decision to remove the requirement for an in-person doctor visit before receiving an abortion pill, which Louisiana claims has led to unsafe mailing of abortion pills.
Read →The Court of Appeals heard oral arguments in Louisiana's lawsuit challenging abortion-pill regulations. Louisiana presented arguments based on state sovereignty and Medicaid costs, seeking specific relief in the case.
Read →Novielli reviews oral arguments in Louisiana's challenge to federal rules permitting mailed abortion pills. She describes the state's claims of legal and financial harm and criticism of the federal government's focus on standing.
Read →MEDIA ADVISORY: Louisiana v. FDA to be argued in the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals on September 9, 2026. “Louisiana again confronts the dangers of chemical abortion pills in court, and those risks include threats to endangered species, which we detailed in our amicus brief,” said Students for Life’s Kristan Hawkins. “A peer-reviewed study shows that mifepristone and mifepristone equivalents taint the water where it was tested. The risk to ... Read More The post Students for Life Again Supports Louisiana’s Case Against the FDA with an Amicus Brief, As Chemical Abortion Pill Policy to be Debate
Read →THE DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—The Catholic Church in Illinois is challenging the Democrat-led state’s recently passed assisted suicide law in court. Chicago’s archbishop, Cardinal Blase Cupich, joined two orders of Catholic nuns and an Illinois pharmacist in a lawsuit filed Thursday in an effort to block the End-of-Life Options for Terminally Ill Patients Act (EOLOA), the Becket...
Read →A federal appellate court shot down on Thursday a rogue judge’s bid to “defy” the U.S. Supreme Court’s Dobbs decision permitting lawmakers to regulate abortion policy. In a newly released order, the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals temporarily paused an August ruling by Idaho-based Senior District Judge B. Lynn Winmill. The Clinton appointee seemingly infringed […]
Read →The Ninth Circuit blocked a lower court ruling against Idaho’s pro-life law, allowing the state to enforce it for now as the case moves forward.
Read →Kentucky Attorney General Russell Coleman sued an organization that promotes mail-order abortion-inducing drugs to women in states where it’s restricted. Coleman announced the litigation Thursday against Mayday Health, a New York-based activist organization, stating the organization broke state law by advertising illegal mail-order abortion pills. Last weekend, Mayday Health chartered an airplane that flew over...
Read →A sign is seen St. Mary’s Home for the Little Sisters of the Poor in Chicago Aug. 19, 2026. Cardinal Blase J. Cupich of Chicago, the Carmelite Sisters for the Aged and Infirm and the Chicago Province of the Little Sisters of the Poor, and an Illinois pharmacist sued Illinois Sept. 3 over the state’s physician-assisted suicide law, which permits physicians to aid terminally ill adults in dying by suicide. " data-large-file="https://i0.wp.com/www.americamagazine.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/20260903T1500-CUPICH-NUNS-ILLINOIS-ASSISTED-SUICIDE-LAWSUIT-1825672-scaled.jpg?fit=780%2C521&ssl=1" /> I
Read →A federal judge on Sunday agreed to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s request to pause a lawsuit over the safety of the mifepristone pill and the drug’s mail-order distribution. The post Federal judge delays mifepristone lawsuit until after midterms appeared first on The Catholic Thing .
Read →Thomas More Society announces closing arguments in California’s case against Heartbeat International and RealOptions over abortion-pill-reversal communications. The release summarizes the defense’s arguments about commercial speech, evidence of harm, and constitutional protection without reporting a final court ruling.
Read →The U.S. bishops are among those who have opposed the policy permitting distribution of mifepristone by mail. The post Federal judge delays states' bid to revoke abortion pill approval until after midterms first appeared on Angelus News .
Read →Flanders reports another pause in a lawsuit brought by Texas and Florida challenging mifepristone's federal approval. She explains that proceedings are expected to resume after the FDA's review or the stated December deadline and notes a denied dismissal motion.
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