Lawmakers are considering legalizing a controversial medical practice that proponents say could ease suffering for the ...

The U.S. Supreme Court declined on Monday to hear a challenge to the legality of buffer zones used to protect access to ...

Coalition Life, a St. Louis pro-life group, had last summer petitioned the U.S. Supreme Court to strike down the buffer law ...

The Supreme Court refused Monday to take up a First Amendment case to revisit a previous ruling enshrining abortion clinic ...

The Supreme Court decd to take up cases challenging abortion clinic “ zones” that impose protest restrictions around abortion ...

At issue was a 25-year precedent that allows local governments to create protest-free buffer zones around all health-care ...

The Supreme Court turned away two appeals from abortion rights opponents asking the justices to overrule a 25-year-old ...

Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito dissented, saying that the precedent deserved a fresh look since the court ...

Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito said they would have taken the cases. Start the day smarter. Get all the news you ...

Justices sidestepped what would likely have been a polarizing fight and turned away two appeals, including one involving a Carbondale law that has been taken off the books.

Abortion opponents say laws limiting anti-abortion demonstrations near clinics violate their First Amendment rights. The high court turned down the appeals in orders handed down Monday.