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The latest battle in the nation’s continuing war over abortion involves a federal bill called the Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act. Senate Democrats this week blocked the bill from reaching a vote, and President Trump responded with an angry tweet. (Grady, 2/26)

Missouri's Republican-led House on Tuesday advanced a bill that would ban almost all abortions in the state if the U.S. Supreme Court overturns Roe v. Wade. And if the high court doesn't switch course, the Missouri bill would ban most abortions after a fetal heartbeat can be detected. That can be as early as six weeks into a pregnancy. (2/26)

A bill that would ban most Tennessee women from obtaining abortions once a fetus’ heartbeat is detected cleared a key hurdle Tuesday, advancing for a full House vote in the GOP-dominated Legislature. The move comes amid a national movement from anti-abortion legislators and activists who hope that President Donald Trump’s appointments to the Supreme Court will increase their chances of undermining abortion rights. (Kruesi, 2/26)

Abortion opponents in Kentucky notched a new legislative victory Tuesday when the state House passed a bill that would ban the procedure for women seeking to end their pregnancies because of the gender, race or disability of the fetus. The measure cleared the chamber on a 67-25 vote that sends it to the Senate. It's part of an aggressive agenda by the Republican-dominated legislatures in Kentucky and several other states to restrict abortion. (2/26)

The Wyoming Senate has passed a bill that would allow the Board of Medicine to sanction doctors who don't tell the state that they performed an abortion. Supporters say they are trying to put teeth into a law that currently exists. (Beck, 2/26)

Connecticut will join other states in suing to block a new Trump administration mandate that bars federal family-planning money from going to health care groups that offer abortion referrals.Attorney General William Tong said he would take “swift legal action” to preserve the federal funding for organizations like Planned Parenthood. (Carlesso, 2/26)

Among the bills making their way through the Missouri legislature — most of which have also been proposed in past years — are proposals to outlaw abortion completely, to ban abortion contingent upon Roe v. Wade being overturned, to limit abortion at a certain number of weeks when a fetus is “pain capable,” to limit abortion when a heartbeat is detected and to require notification of both parents before a minor can seek an abortion. (Okeson-Haberman, Lewis and Rosen, 2/26)