“Planned Parenthood’s beleaguered network of clinics will regain access to hundreds of millions in Medicaid funding this weekend — the fallout of Republicans’ failure to pass an extension of the one-year defunding provision they approved last year,” Politico reports.

”Starting July 5, clinics around the country can once again bill the federal program for reimbursement after providing non-abortion services, like birth control and screenings for sexually-transmitted infections, to low-income patients. Though other funding threats loom, it’s a lifeline for the struggling organization, which has closed nearly 30 health centers nationwide that collectively served more than 40,000 patients since the defunding provision in the GOP’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act took effect in July 2025.”

“In its quest to outlaw abortion across the country, the antiabortion movement has been largely unified around a core idea: Women who get the procedure should be spared punishment, while doctors and others who make it available should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law,” the New York Times reports.

“But a growing number of conservative leaders are starting to argue that the only way to stop women from ending their pregnancies could be to arrest them.”

Rep. Kat Cammack (R-FL), a pro-life Republican, told Tara Palmeri that she nearly died during a pregnancy complication that required an abortion.

Cammack broke down in tears and said she feared she might die while medical professionals debated whether they could legally provide treatment.

Cammack later asked Palmeri not to publish that portion of the interview.

“Democrats are prioritizing other issues over abortion in the runup to the fall midterm elections, while Republicans are taking pains to avoid the topic altogether,” Politico reports.

“But another wave of state ballot initiatives to protect a right to abortion could force candidates on both sides to articulate their positions.”

“Planned Parenthood will likely be able to regain access to federal funds as of July 5, one year after Republicans were finally able to ban money from going to the organization,” NOTUS reports.

“Last year’s partisan budget bill marked the first time lawmakers succeeded in their longtime policy goal of barring Planned Parenthood from receiving federal funds. The Senate parliamentarian allowed the ban to last one year, instead a proposed 10, meaning the provision will expire soon. Now, Republicans say they lack the votes to extend that ban further, a result of close margins in both chambers and election-year politics.”

Georgia gubernatorial candidate Rick Jackson (R) believes women should have to prove they were raped before being eligible for an abortion exception under the state’s six-week ban, according to leaked audio obtained by HuffPost.

Wall Street Journal: “The Food and Drug Administration has launched a safety study of the abortion pill, also known as mifepristone, a step that could pave the way for the Trump administration to restrict how it is distributed and used.”

“The study marks a victory for antiabortion groups and Republican members of Congress, who have demanded action from the administration to crack down on the pill’s use. In recent months, antiabortion allies had lost patience with assurances from administration officials that a study would be conducted.”

New York Times: “Four years after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, which established a national right to abortion in 1973, it remains widely available, and the number of abortions per year has actually increased slightly. Much of that is due to the availability of abortion pills. The Food and Drug Administration has so far not walked away from a decision made during the Biden administration to allow access to the abortion pill mifepristone through the mail.”

“But a lawsuit against the F.D.A. now threatens that access, and the Trump administration has remained strikingly silent about it, even as the case reached the Supreme Court this month.”

CBS News: “The Supreme Court on Thursday maintained mail access to the abortion pill mifepristone, setting aside for now a lower court order that blocked abortion providers from prescribing the widely used drug through telehealth and shipping it to patients.”

“The high court’s unsigned decision ensures that patients nationwide will continue to have broad access to mifepristone while litigation in a challenge to the Food and Drug Administration’s relaxed policy for obtaining the drug brought by the state of Louisiana moves forward.”

Washington Post: Supreme Court temporarily clears way for mail distribution of widely used abortion pill.

Washington Post: “Democrats, who retreated from their focus on abortion rights after losing the White House in 2024, see an opportunity to go back on the offensive after a federal court endangered access last week.”

“Abortion rights advocates are hoping to capitalize on the legal uncertainty, as they did when scoring a string of Democratic victories in the 2022 midterms shortly after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade.”

“The Supreme Court on Monday restored broad access to the abortion pill mifepristone, blocking a ruling that had threatened to upend one of the main ways abortion is provided across the nation,” the AP reports.

“The order signed by Justice Samuel Alito temporarily allows women seeking abortions to obtain the pill at pharmacies or through the mail, without an in-person visit to a doctor.”

“The antiabortion lobby expected to be more triumphant by now: A conservative Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, Republicans control both chambers of Congress, and the self-styled ‘most pro-life president in history’ again occupies the Oval Office,” the Wall Street Journal reports.

“But abortions are up in the years after the overturning of Roe, and the antiabortion lobby has a new locus for blame.”

New York Times: “A manufacturer of the abortion pill mifepristone asked the Supreme Court on Saturday to immediately restore full access to the medication, putting the contentious issue of abortion back before the justices in an election year.”

“The request came after a lower court on Friday temporarily restricted abortion providers nationwide from prescribing the pills by telemedicine and sending them to patients by mail. That process is one of the main ways women seeking abortions have obtained the medication in recent years.”