This week, we’ve been focused on selected history around reproductive rights. Today, get up to speed on current news with our five fast facts:
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%22Less%20than%20a%20week%20after%20the%20Fifth%20Circuit%20Court%20of%20Appeals%20upheld%20two%20provisions%20of%20Texas%E2%80%99s%20law%20restricting%20abortions%20%E2%80%93%20including%20one%20that%20has%20closed%20a%20third%20of%20the%20state%E2%80%99s%20clinics%20%E2%80%93%20attorneys%20for%20two%20of%20the%20closed%20clinics%20are%20trying%20a%20new%20tactic.%20They%20have%20filed%20a%20new%20federal%20lawsuit%20on%20behalf%20of%20Whole%20Woman%E2%80%99s%20Health%20in%20McAllen%20and%20Reproductive%20Health%20Services%20in%20El%20Paso%2C%20saying%20the%20law%20is%20unconstitutional%20as%20applied%20to%20them.%22′
%22Judging%20by%20the%20direction%20of%20questions%20at%20oral%20argument%20at%20the%20Supreme%20Court%20%5Blast%20Tuesday%5D%2C%20the%20closely%20watched%20contraceptive%20cases%20%E2%80%93%20Hobby%20Lobby%20and%20Conestoga%20Wood%2C%20who%20are%20suing%20the%20government%20over%20regulations%20in%20the%20Affordable%20Care%20Act%20%E2%80%93%20are%20likely%20to%20divide%20along%20traditional%20partisan%20lines%2C%20with%20Justice%20Anthony%20Kennedy%20providing%20the%20tie-breaking%20vote.%22′
%22A%20federal%20district%20court%20judge%20in%20Arizona%20has%20ruled%20that%20the%20state%E2%80%99s%20restrictions%20on%20medication%20abortion%20%E2%80%93%20which%20effectively%20take%20it%20off%20the%20table%20as%20an%20option%20%E2%80%93%20can%20go%20forward%20pending%20further%20litigation.%20That%20follows%20an%20appeals%20court%20in%20Texas%20last%20week%2C%20which%20upheld%20similar%20restrictions%20in%20Texas.%22′
%22Thanks%20to%20a%20law%20passed%20last%20year%2C%20California%20is%20actually%20adding%20abortion%20providers%20%E2%80%93%20nearly%20fifty%20nurse%20practitioners%2C%20nurse%20midwives%2C%20and%20physicians%E2%80%99%20assistants%2C%20trained%20to%20provide%20aspiration%20abortions%20in%20the%20first%20trimester%20%E2%80%93with%20more%20to%20come.%22′
Sara Kugler