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Biden signs bill protecting same-sex and interracial marriage months after Supreme Court raised doubts about marriage and contraception decisions

President Joe Biden signed the Respect for Marriage Act into law on Tuesday.Demetrius Freeman/The Washington Post via Getty Images President Joe Biden signed the Respect for Marriage Act into law on Tuesday. It repeals...

Proposition 1: Californians will vote to make abortion a constitutional right

Kaye Aries (L) and daughter Robyn Victor, 6, look at one another as brother Kaleb Victor, 12, also participates in the Women's March Action Rally for Reproductive Rights at Mariachi Plaza in Los Angeles, California, on...

Proposal 5: Vermont will vote to protect reproductive autonomy

Political candidate and referendum posters are placed along a main road November 2, 2022 in Shelburne, Vermont. A sign in favor Article 27 would enshrine a woman's reproductive rights in the Vermont state constitution...

Proposal 3: Michigan voters will decide on a constitutional right to abortion

Pro choice supporters gather outside the Michigan State Capitol during a "Restore Roe" rally in Lansing, on September 7, 2022.JEFF KOWALSKY/AFP via Getty Images; Insider Michigan's Proposal 3 would make...

Amendment 2: Kentucky voters could establish that citizens don't have the right to abortion

Children sit in front of signs encouraging voters to vote yes on Amendment 2, which would add a permanent abortion ban to Kentuckys state constitution, during a rally on the steps of the Kentucky State Capitol in...

LR-131: Montana could establish law that makes any infant born alive a legal person

Abortion-rights demonstrators shout slogans after tying green flags to a fence at the White House during a protest to pressure the Biden administration to act and protect abortion rights, in Washington, July 9,...

Florida court rules parentless 16-year-old must carry pregnancy to term because she is not 'mature' enough to get an abortion

FORT WORTH, TEXAS - MAY 14: Abortion rights demonstrators gather during a nationwide rally in support of abortion rights in Fort Worth, Texas, United States, on May 14, 2022.Charles C. Peebles/Anadolu Agency via Getty...

Moving from secrecy to sermons, a rabbi says ending her pregnancy was a blessing: 'My abortion was deeply Jewish.'

Maggie Chiang for Insider Rachael Pass became pregnant in her second year of rabbinical school and chose to have an abortion. She described her experience as "deeply Jewish" and filled with religious study and...

Ohio's attorney general dismissed the story of a 10-year-old child who sought an abortion after being raped. Days later, he celebrated a suspect's arrest in the case.

An abortion rights protester speaks through a megaphone at a rally in Columbus, Ohio, after the United States Supreme Court ruled in the Dobbs v Women's Health Organization abortion case, overturning the landmark Roe v...

After Roe, some millennials are protesting by not spending with brands like Walmart and Taco Bell and growing their own food: 'This is a capitalist country. Don't let bad people have the thing that they want from you the most'

Protests outside of the Supreme Court after it overturned Roe v. WadeCamila DeChalus After Roe v. Wade was overturned, people are acting with one thing they can control: their wallets. Some are trying to "keep...

Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer fights for her daughters' right to abortion following the fall of Roe v. Wade: 'We must lead'

Michigan Governor Gretchen WhitmerMichigan Office of the Governor via AP Governor Gretchen Whitmer told The Washington Post how the fight for abortion access impacts her family. "I'm thinking about my...

Read the threatening letter the Texas GOP sent to a law firm that planned to reimburse travel costs for employees seeking an abortion

U.S. Rep. Mayes Middleton (R-TX) (C) of the Texas Freedom Caucus addresses the media in the Texas Capitol on July 13, 2021 in Austin, Texas.Montinique Monroe/Getty Images The Texas Freedom Caucus sent a letter to the...

Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin pushes state lawmakers for a 15-week abortion ban after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade

Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin of Virginia.AP Photo/Steve Helber Gov. Youngkin is pushing for a 15-week abortion ban in the wake of Roe v. Wade being overturned. Youngkin has assembled a group of Republicans to develop...

Susan Collins and Joe Manchin, who voted to confirm justices Kavanaugh and Gorsuch, say they were misled on Roe v. Wade

Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) and Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME).Drew Angerer/Getty Images Senators Susan Collins and Joe Manchin said they were misled by Justices Brett Kavanaugh and Neil Gorsuch. The centrist, pro-choice...

Telehealth clinics are still offering abortion pills to people outside their states despite Roe v. Wade decision

Choix was co-founded by Cindy Adam, Lauren Dubey, Aisha Wagner and Mark Adam in 2020.Illustration by Mary Purdie via Choix Medication abortion pills can be delivered to your home or an address in nearby legal...

The Arizona State Senate had to be evacuated after tear gas police deployed on protesters spread into the building

A large number of police surround the Arizona Capitol after protesters reached the front of the AZ Senate building following the Supreme Court's decision to overturn Roe v. Wade Friday, June 24, 2022, in Phoenix.(AP...

Obergefell, the plaintiff in the SCOTUS same-sex marriage ruling, said it's 'quite telling' Clarence Thomas omitted the case that legalized interracial marriage after saying the courts should go after other right to privacy cases

Associate Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas and his wife and conservative activist Virginia Thomas.Drew Angerer/Getty Image The Supreme Court on Friday overturned abortion rights established by Roe v. Wade. Clarence...

Standing among protestors after the fall of Roe vs. Wade, AOC calls on Biden to create abortion clinics on federal land

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) speaks to abortion-rights activists in front of the U.S. Supreme Court after the Court announced a ruling in the Dobbs v Jackson Women's Health Organization case on June 24, 2022 in...

What is Griswold v. Connecticut? How access to contraception and other privacy rights could be at risk after SCOTUS overturned Roe v. Wade

Many of the signs were hand-written.Anna Watts for Insider SCOTUS overturned on Friday the Roe v. Wade ruling that granted women the constitutional right to an abortion. Justice Thomas wrote in a concurring opinion that...

A lawyer who argued against the overturning of Roe V. Wade at the Supreme Court said that all 'liberty rights' are connected — and now deeply under threat

Seated from left: Samuel Alito, Clarence Thomas, John Roberts, Stephen Breyer and Sonia Sotomayor, Standing from left: Brett Kavanaugh, Elena Kagan, Neil Gorsuch and Amy Coney Barrett.Erin Schaff-Pool/Getty...

Repressive state laws and the overturning of Roe v. Wade are causing a mass migration of abortion clinics and providers, experts say

Attendees hold up signs during a Texas Rally for Abortion Rights at Discovery Green in Houston, Texas, on May 7, 2022.Mark Felix/AFP via Getty Images The founder of a network of abortion clinics is already seeing more...

Which Supreme Court justices voted to overturn Roe v. Wade? Here's where all 9 judges stand

Reproductive rights activists hold cut out photos of the Supreme Court justices as oral arguments in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization case are held on Wednesday, December 1, 2021.Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call, Inc...

Justice Samuel Alito, the architect of overturning Roe v. Wade, told senators he viewed the abortion rights landmark as 'important precedent.' Now he says 'stare decisis' doesn't protect it.

U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice Samuel Alito testifies about the court's budget during a hearing of the House Appropriations Committee's Financial Services and General Government Subcommittee March 07, 2019 in...

AOC says 'elections are not enough,' and calls on protesters to 'fill the streets' after the Supreme Court overturns Roe v. Wade

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez speaks to abortion-rights activists in front of the US Supreme Court on June 24, 2022 in Washington, DCNathan Howard/Getty Images AOC called on SCOTUS protestors to "fill the...

Democrat Nikki Fried, who's running for Florida governor to unseat Ron DeSantis, says the Roe decision upends the race

Florida Agriculture Commissioner Nikki Fried is running for the Democratic nomination for governor to unseat Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis.Wilfredo Lee/AP Photo Nikki Fried is running for the Democratic nomination for...