A federal agency has restored family-planning money to a nonprofit group in Mississippi, three months after suspending the ...

Almost two days after she gave birth in her college dormitory bathroom, Brianna Moore sat in a campus security office with two Tampa police detectives old enough to be her father. “I know things can ...

House Speaker Jason White isn't waiting for 2026 to look at some big issues such as school choice, voter access and the state ...

State lawmakers passed a slew of bills in both regular and special sessions in 2025 that become laws on July 1.

States can block the country’s biggest abortion provider, Planned Parenthood, from receiving Medicaid money for health ...

Mississippi State Sen. Bradford Blackmon, D-Canton, waits for an answer on a question during floor debate on general bills, ...

'Contraception Begins at Erection Act': Why a U.S. Senator introduced this satirical bill Tabled in the Mississippi legislature by Democratic State Senator Bradford Blackmon By Stewart Lewis ...

Democratic Mississippi state Sen. Bradford Blackmon introduced the Contraception Begins at Erection Act act that could make it illegal for men to masturbate — or engage in any sexual activity ...

FILE-Protesters (L) gather outside the Mississippi State Capitol building during the state legislature's historic vote to change the Mississippi flag in Jackson, Mississippi on June 28, 2020.

Mississippi Senator Bradford Blackmon introduced the Contraception Begins at Erection Act. The legislation would make it unlawful for a person to "discharge genetic material without the intent to ...