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A study has found that the number of women charged with crimes related to their pregnancies jumped in the year after the U.S. Supreme Court ruling that cleared the way for abortion bans across the country. Most of the cases identified were in just two states: Alabama and Oklahoma.

Alabama Sen. Tommy Tuberville is blocking the quick promotion of an aide to Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin. Tuberville is blocking the nomination of Lt. Gen. Ron Clark over concerns that he and other senior staff did not quickly notify President Joe Biden when Austin was hospitalized with complications from cancer treatment earlier this year.

The U.S. Supreme Court is ruling to uphold access to one of two pills used in medication abortion. Meantime, the first over the counter birth control pill is still on the shelves in Alabama, but abortion rights supporters caution of a possible federal contraceptive ban.

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — An Alabama-based abortion rights group received a flood of donations after state lawmakers in 2019 attempted to outlaw abortion.…

Republican officials in several states have sought to suspend abortions during the pandemic.

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — A federal judge blocked an Alabama abortion ban Tuesday that would have made the procedure a felony at any stage of pregnancy in…

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — A federal judge on Friday ordered Alabama to pay $675,964 to lawyers for abortion clinics who challenged the state's attempt to…

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Alabama says U.S. Supreme Court precedent "regrettably requires" a federal judge to block the state's abortion ban from taking…

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Alabama might have to pay more than $1 million to lawyers for abortion clinics after the state's unsuccessful attempt to ban a…

HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (AP) — In a case that spotlights Alabama's state policy recognizing "the rights of unborn children," a judge is deciding whether to…