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AG contends old abortion law is valid

West Virginia’s attorney general argues in new court filings that the state’s felony abortion law that sprung back after being inactive for a half century should be considered in effect. The attorney general contends that laws passed after the Supreme Court’s Roe vs. Wade ruling were ...

Google should delete abortion search queries

by Parmy Olson For days after the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, big tech companies remained silent on what they would do with their troves of newly incriminating data on women in America. Then last Friday, as the country set off for the holiday weekend, Alphabet ...

What will W.Va. decide on abortion?

When the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, several states had trigger laws or old laws that immediately went into effect. Ohio is one of the former: A trigger law banning abortions at six weeks took effect within hours of the court’s ruling. Three days later, a pregnant 10-year-old girl ...

Progress has lurched backward

This is not just another setback. Anyone who’s lived long enough has seen the Supreme Court issue a ruling they didn’t like. This is not that. No, what made the ruling that felled Roe v. Wade and its companion case, Planned Parenthood v. Casey, more than just another disappointment, ...