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In most states, young people overwhelmingly supported pro-abortion ballot measures, even while voting for GOP President-elect Donald Trump at the top of the ticket, according to a new data analysis of young voters in the 2024 election.

When President-elect Donald Trump announced his pick for U.S. solicitor general, he tapped one of the leading anti-abortion lawyers in Missouri: D. John Sauer. Sauer was solicitor general of Missouri from 2017 through 2022 under Republican Sens.

A South Dakota judge dismissed a lawsuit that an anti-abortion group filed in June targeting an abortion rights measure that voters rejected this month. In an order dated Friday, Circuit Court Judge John Pekas granted Life Defense Fund's motion to dismiss its lawsuit against Dakotans for Health,

Voters across seven states approved ballot measures to safeguard abortion rights through their state constitutions, a result that could soon bolster reproductive health care for more than 2 million American women.

Oregon Gov. Tina Kotek (D) announced her state has secured a new supply of the abortion pill mifepristone to last nearly through the entirety of the second Trump administration. In the announcement,

The move comes after former Republican President Donald Trump and his party won the White House and both chambers of Congress.

Florida’s abortion rights groups are taking stock after a narrow loss in last week’s ballot referendum but say the fight to overturn the state’s six-week abortion ban isn’t over. Florida became the first state to reject an abortion rights amendment since Roe v.

This belief shaped the party’s 2024 strategy. Abortion was “by far the most prevalent topic in 2024 Democratic messaging,” Politico reported, “beating out health care, the economy and immigration.” The Harris campaign’s final round of advertisements mentioned abortion more than any other subject, according to the Wesleyan Media Project.