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‘Gender ideology’ has no place in sex ed, Trump White House says

By Geoff Mulvihill and The Associated Press

FILE – Abortion-rights activists demonstrate against the Supreme Court decision to overturn Roe v. Wade that established a constitutional right to abortion, on Capitol Hill in Washington, June 30, 2022. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

Overturning Roe v. Wade has completely failed to change opinions on abortion. Most want it to be legal

By Geoff Mulvihill, Amelia Thomson-Deveaux, and others

FILE – Protesters who have lost love ones to the opioid crisis protest outside a courthouse in Boston, Aug. 2, 2019, where a judge heard arguments in a lawsuit against Purdue Pharma. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa, File)

All 50 states agree to OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma’s plan for Sackler family to pay up to $7 billion to settle opioid epidemic lawsuits

By Geoff Mulvihill and The Associated Press

FILE – The Georgia State Capitol is seen from Liberty Plaza in downtown Atlanta, April 6, 2020. (Alyssa Pointer/Atlanta Journal-Constitution via AP, File)

A brain-dead Georgia woman has been kept alive since February in order to carry a fetus to birth

By Jeff Amy, Sudin Thanawala, and others

WASHINGTON DC, UNITED STATES – 2021/12/03: People from across the United States, who lost loved ones due to the opioid epidemic, rallied at the Department of Justice in Washington DC, calling on Attorney General Merrick Garland and Deputy AG Lisa Monaco to bring criminal charges against members of the Sackler family. The Sackler’s company, Purdue Pharma, pleaded guilty in October of 2020, to three criminal charges related to its marketing of the drug OxyContin but have only faced monetary penalties of around $8.3 billion. (Photo by Michael Nigro/Pacific Press/LightRocket via Getty Images)

Purdue Pharma makes new offer to settle lawsuits over Oxycontin opioid crisis, and it includes up to $7 billion cash from the Sacklers

By Geoff Mulvihill and The Associated Press

FILE – Abortion-rights protestors march between the Indiana Statehouse and the Indiana State Library where Vice President Kamala Harris was meeting with Indiana legislators to discuss reproductive rights, July 25, 2022, in Indianapolis. (AP Photo/Michael Conroy, File)

State lawmakers are proposing to ban abortion pills and punish women who seek to end their pregnancies

By Geoff Mulvihill and The Associated Press

President Donald Trump arrives to speak about the economy during an event at the Circa Resort and Casino in Las Vegas, Saturday, Jan. 25, 2025. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)

Trump executive order mandates end of federal support for gender transitions for those under 19

By Zeke Miller, Geoff Mulvihill, and others

New York Attorney General Letitia James speaks about a settlement with regard to the opioid crisis at a news conference in New York, Thursday, Jan. 23, 2025. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)

Purdue Pharma and Sackler family to pay $7.4 billion in revised settlement of lawsuits over OxyContin opioid toll

By Geoff Mulvihill and The Associated Press

382724 01: Three RU-486 Mifeprex abortion pills are held in a hand December 1, 2000 in Granite City, Illinois. The Hope Center for Women is the first area abortion clinic to distribute the new pills that terminates a pregnancy. The RU-486 pill was approved in September and can be taken by women up to the seventh week of pregnancy. The drug blocks the hormone that sustains the embryo and then unhooks it from the uterine wall. (Photo by Bill Grenblatt/Liaison)

Texas judge says 3 states can again challenge abortion pill access nationwide

By Geoff Mulvihill, Lindsay Whitehurst, and others

People at a election night watch party react after an abortion rights amendment to the Missouri constitution passed Tuesday, Nov. 5, 2024, in Kansas City, Mo. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)

Abortion rights advocates lose in Florida but win in 7 other states and clear path to overturn Missouri ban

By Geoff Mulvihill, Christine Fernando, and others

FILE – Protesters hold competing signs outside Manhattan federal court during an abortion-rights demonstration in New York, Saturday, May 14, 2022. (AP Photo/Jeenah Moon, File)

Abortion is on the ballot in 9 states as parties aim to motivate voters across the U.S.

By Geoff Mulvihill, Christine Fernando, and others

FILE – A patient prepares to take the first of two combination pills, mifepristone, for a medication abortion during a visit to a clinic in Kansas City, Kan., on, Oct. 12, 2022. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel, File)

Women in abortion-ban states are getting the procedure at similar rates as under Roe, study says

By Geoff Mulvihill and The Associated Press

Missouri

Wait, really? It’s illegal for pregnant women to get divorced in Missouri

By Geoff Mulvihill and The Associated Press

Abortion protests

The end of Roe v. Wade had essentially no impact on the number of abortions in America—just where

By Geoff Mulvihill and The Associated Press

Gov. Jim Pillen is joined by state senators as he announces that the state will participate in the Summer Electronic Benefits Transfer Program after previously saying Nebraska wouldn’t take part during a press conference in the Warner Chamber at the Capitol, Monday, Feb. 12, 2024, in Lincoln, Neb. (Kenneth Ferriera/Lincoln Journal Star via AP)

14 Republican states rejected $40 per month for poor families from the federal government. Here’s why

By Jonathan Mattise, Geoff Mulvihill, and others