No apologies from Republicans who called 10-year-old-rape victim story a lie

Republican figures, including Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost, say they will not apologize for questioning the veracity of the report that a 10-year-old rape victim from Ohio went across state lines to Indiana to get an abortion.

Where state abortion bans stand amid legal challenges

By Veronica Stracqualursi and Tierney Sneed

In more than a dozen states, legal fights are underway over abortion bans and other laws that greatly limit the procedure after the US Supreme Court ended a constitutional right to an abortion on June 24. On July 26, the Supreme Court entered its judgment in the case, taking the procedural step that will start the process for some states to implement their so-called trigger bans on the procedure.

Abortion rights proponents have taken legal action, challenging several states' abortion restrictions and have seen some success in temporarily blocking bans in at least five states: Idaho, Kentucky, Louisiana, Michigan and Utah.

Here's where some states' abortion bans stand as courts consider legal challenges:

Arizona: state seeks to lift hold on pre-Roe abortion ban

Arizona's Republican Attorney General Mark Brnovich is asking a state court to lift a 1973 court injunction against an abortion ban enacted in 1901.

In a filing on July 13 with the Arizona superior court in Pima County, Brnovich pointed to the US Supreme Court's recent ruling in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health, which ended federal constitutional protections for abortion rights.