WASHINGTON —Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. joined the Supreme Court’s liberal justices to deal a surprising setback to abortion opponents on Monday, striking down a restrictive Louisiana abortion law and reaffirming the court’s past…

Those who resent big government interfering in their personal decisions were heartened by Friday’s decision by the Kansas Supreme Court. By a 6-1 margin, the Court declared that the Kansas Constitution protects a woman’s right…

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas’ highest court ruled for the first time Friday that the state constitution protects abortion rights and blocked a first-in-the-nation ban on a common second trimester method for ending pregnancies. The…