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An Illinois man was sentenced to five years in prison on Monday for trying to prevent the opening of an abortion clinic in downstate Danville by crashing his car into the building and attempting to set it on fire, an act that reproductive health care advocates say has been part of a spike in violence and harassment against such facilities since the end of Roe v. Wade. Philip Buyno, 73, of Prophetstown was also ordered to pay more than $300,000 restitution, the Justice Department said in a statement. Authorities said Buyno intended to destroy the building before the clinic could open, citing hi......

Missouri Republican lawmakers are pushing a pair of bills that would allow for women to be charged with murder for getting an abortion in the state. The pieces of legislation would give fetuses the same rights as human beings, which would allow for criminal charges to be filed against anyone who gets an abortion, helps someone get an abortion or provides abortion care in the state, which implemented a near-total ban on the procedure after last year’s U.S. Supreme Court ruling. Republicans state Sen. Mike Moon from Ash Grove and state Rep. Bob Titus from Billings pre-filed the bills last Friday......

DETROIT — Although abortion remains legal in Michigan, access to surgical procedures is declining and forcing patients to drive farther to get one — in some cases to neighboring states. When Michigan voters approved Proposal 3 last year in response to the U.S. Supreme Court's overturning of Roe v. Wade, reproductive rights activists celebrated. The proposal enshrined in the state constitution the “fundamental right to reproductive freedom,” including decisions on pregnancy, contraception and abortion. Next year, when Michigan’s Reproductive Health Act is set to take effect, repealing several r......

ORLANDO — Floridians are signing petitions to put abortion rights to a vote of the people next fall, but they could meet an insurmountable setback from the state’s conservative Supreme Court. The high court must approve the ballot initiative’s language, and if it doesn’t, the amendment won’t be on the 2024 ballot. The amendment’s backers also still need to gather more than 400,000 signatures to get on the ballot, counter an anti-abortion ad campaign already taking shape and win at least 60% of the vote to secure passage. Republican Attorney General Ashley Moody is fighting to keep the measure ......

A San Francisco Bay Area dermatologist and university professor accused last year of using state prisoners in decades-old experiments that included pesticide injections has denied in a legal filing that his accusers had any evidence he caused harm. Dr. Howard Maibach, now in his mid-90s, filed a court petition challenging a University of California at San Francisco report accusing him of using “questionable research methods” in experiments in the ’60s and ’70s on at least 2,600 male inmates at the California Medical Facility, a state prison hospital in Vacaville. According to the petition, the......

LANSING— Anti-abortion groups and three Republican state lawmakers are challenging the federal constitutionality of an abortion rights proposal passed by voters a year ago today. The filing in Michigan’s Western District federal court Wednesday comes a day after Ohio passed a similar “reproductive freedom” ballot initiative enshrining abortion rights in its state constitution. The U.S. Supreme Court in June 2022 ruled abortion laws must be left up to the states, overturning a half-century of federal abortion protections and spurring Michigan voters to approve Proposal 3 in the November 2022 ge......