Inside a one-story clinic about 40 miles from the Georgia border‚ Kelly Flynn’s staff has provided abortions to women from across the Southeast since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in 2022. But on Tuesday‚ A Woman’s Choice clinic in Jacksonville‚ Florida‚ was seeing its last patients who fell outside of Florida’s strict new abortion law taking effect on Wednesday. The legislation prohibits most abortion after about six weeks – before many people know they’re pregnant....

Florida's six-week abortion ban has come into force‚ closing the door - for now - on the last abortion access point in the US South. Anti-abortion campaigners have celebrated the new legislation - which replaces an existing 15-week law - as the gold standard of abortion policy and a major victory in the country's battle over abortion access. But pro-choice campaigners say the ban will push an overstretched system to the brink. They worry the new law in Florida‚ which had been the last...

House Democrats from Florida bashed the state’s six-week abortion ban as “draconian” as one of the strictest limits in the country went into effect Wednesday. Reps. Frederica Wilson‚ Debbie Wasserman-Schultz‚ Lois Frankel‚ Kathy Casto‚ Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick‚ Darren Soto‚ Maxwell Frost and Jared Moskowitz joined together to issue a statement bashing Florida’s new abortion law. “Today and every day‚ the truth remains clear: People‚ not politicians‚ should be in control of their own...

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) will move forward with plans to force a confidence vote on Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) despite assurances from Democratic leaders to step in to block the effort should it come to the House floor.  Greene will call the motion forward next week‚ putting a notice on the legislation that would require GOP leaders to bring it to the floor within two legislative days‚ the Georgia Republican announced on Wednesday. Such a move...

Mitt Romney may have infamously tied a dog in a kennel to the roof of his car for a cross-country trip but at least he didn’t shoot it‚ the Utah Republican senator said‚ as outrage over the South Dakota governor‚ Kristi Noem‚ telling her story of killing a 14-month-old hunting dog continued to ripple through US politics.