Kate Scanlon is a national reporter for OSV News covering Washington.
The Supreme Court temporarily allowed Idaho April 15 to enforce a ban on certain types of medical or surgical gender reassignment procedures for minors who identify as transgender. State officials asked the high court to allow them to enforce the law while
After former President Donald Trump, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, issued a statement April 8 arguing abortion should be left to individual states to legislate -- and declining to back federal restrictions sought by pro-life activists blaming them for GOP electoral defeats
After initially arguing closer to the start of his third Republican bid for the White House that abortion should be a matter for the states, Trump reportedly weighed backing a federal limit on abortion after 16 weeks gestation, after expressing dissatisfaction with
The Arizona Supreme Court ruled April 9 that a 160-year-old near-total abortion ban still on the books in the state is enforceable, a move that could shutter abortion clinics in the state. But, Arizona may have the issue of abortion on its
Former President Donald Trump, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, issued a video statement April 8 arguing abortion should be left to individual states to legislate and declining to back federal restrictions sought by pro-life activists.
In a video posted to his social media
A prominent pro-life group pushed former President Donald Trump, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, to back federal legislation banning abortion after 15 weeks of pregnancy.
The same week in Washington, President Joe Biden told Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that the humanitarian situation in
The Oklahoma Supreme Court heard oral arguments April 2 in a case concerning what would be the first taxpayer-funded Catholic charter school if it survives the legal challenge.
The case raises questions about the constitutionality of taxpayer funding for religious education.
A state school
Multiple states will have measures to expand access to abortion on their ballots in November, a key challenge for pro-life groups in the fall after their losses on similar contests in post-Dobbs elections.
The Florida Supreme Court on April 1 simultaneously upheld that the state's Constitution does not protect abortion access and allowed a proposed amendment seeking to do so to qualify for the state's November ballot.
In separate rulings, the Sunshine State's high court upheld
While President Joe Biden is "very sincere" about his Catholic faith, "there are things that he chooses to ignore," Washington Cardinal Wilton D. Gregory said in an interview March 31.
During a discussion on Easter on "Face the Nation" on CBS News, host