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Planned Parenthood of Illinois is joining up with Hey Jane, a telehealth provider, to increase abortion services in the state, officials announced Monday.
More women are charged with pregnancy-related crimes since Roe's end, study finds. A study has found that the number of women charged with crimes related to their pregnancies jumped in the year after Dobbs.
New Mexico recruiting Texas health care workers in response to state’s tough abortion laws
Texas professors sue to fail students who seek abortions | Salon.com
Religious New Mexico group creates haven for Texas abortion seekers
Texas has had an estimated 26,000 rape-related pregnancies since the state enacted its abortion bans, which don’t include exceptions for rape or incest.
"Newly elected House Speaker Mike Johnson worked for a crisis pregnancy organization that used a mobile van to target 'abortion-vulnerable women' and persuade them not to terminate their pregnancies, according to tax returns filed with the Internal Revenue Service."
A KFF survey of employer health benefits shows that 28% of large U.S. companies have limited or no access to abortion under company health insurance.
Research Finds Women Who Got Abortions Did Not Suffer In The Long-Term, But Those Forced To Give Birth "Suffered Grave Harm."
Idaho Banned Abortion. Then It Turned Down Supports for Pregnancies and Births. Since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade last year, the state’s GOP-led Legislature has disbanded a maternal mortality committee, failed to expand postpartum Medicaid coverage and turned down federal grants for child care.
An abortion bot from abortion access organizations including Planned Parenthood is rolling out — even in states with abortion bans — to help people find care.
Mexico’s Supreme Court Decriminalizes Abortion Nationwide - The decision builds on an earlier high court ruling and reflects how Latin American countries are expanding women’s rights.
Orlando abortion clinic crowdfunds $200,000 to stay open after massive Florida fines
Abortion-ban states pour millions into pregnancy centers with little medical care Some states use tax credits to encourage donations to the anti-abortion entities.
Opinion: The abortion pill faces its most disturbing attack yet -- because it's all about the male gaze.
Abortion: The Republican plan to trick Americans into voting against it as a new, sinister strategy is taking shape in Ohio, Wisconsin, and Michigan.
Appeals Court Upholds Legality of Abortion Pill but With Significant Restrictions - The restrictions, which would prevent mifepristone from being mailed to patients and would require in-person doctor visits, are on hold until the Supreme Court weighs in.
Missouri shows what Republicans will try next after the Ohio abortion vote.
Ohio Dems. chair mocks Republican who complained they didn't have enough time to push their effort to stymie abortion rights: 'You picked the date dude'
A U.S. judge on Monday blocked the state of Idaho at least temporarily from prosecuting doctors who refer patients out of state to get an abortion, finding that would violate a medical provider's right to free speech.
Abortion fight clouds AIDS-fighting program’s future - Republicans rejected a Democratic bid to re-up PEPFAR via the annual defense policy bill
Crisis pregnancy centers in Illinois that are popping up near abortion facilities to offer information about alternatives face penalties if they disseminate misleading or untruthful information.
House Republicans Are Quietly Using A Spending Bill To Pick An Extremely Specific DC Abortion Fight
Hundreds of women in Poland have protested outside police stations to oppose the allegedly ruthless way officers treated a woman who had taken an abortion pill.
Texas’ abortion restrictions – some of the strictest in the country – may be fueling a sudden spike in infant mortality as women are forced to carry nonviable pregnancies to term.
Fallout from the Supreme Court’s Dobbs ruling just hit trans people. Dobbs and Geduldig play a central role in the defense of laws targeting transgender Americans.
Patients seeking out-of-state abortions and gender-affirming care are at risk of increased surveillance from law enforcement, according to a new report.
After fall of Roe, emboldened religious conservatives lobby to restrict abortion in Africa: When the U.S. Supreme Court overturned the national right to abortion a year ago, it shook efforts to legalize and make abortions safer in Africa.
Abortion Ban Upheld in Indiana - The court said the state Constitution provides a limited right to abortion, but not a “fundamental” one.
US abortion pill access could hinge on whether doctors had right to sue | Reuters
Abortion access groups who received a windfall of donations following the Supreme Court’s overturning of Roe v. Wade one year ago say those emergency grants have ended and individual and foundation giving has dropped off
The Ohio Supreme Court ruled Monday that a ballot measure at the center of an abortion fight in the state needed to be partially rewritten ahead of an August election, but also ruled against Democratic litigants on some of their key requests.
Abortion Bans Are Driving Off Doctors and Closing Clinics, Putting Basic Health Care at Risk
UCSF study shows health complications due to post-Roe abortion laws - Researchers collected 50 examples of pregnancy-related complications where new abortion laws impacted the standard of care
Illinois would become one of the first states to make so-called crisis pregnancy centers subject to the same consumer fraud standards as car dealerships, retailers and service-based businesses under a bill that will soon head to Gov. JB Pritzker.
Houston doctors warn 'dumbfounding' effort to ban mifepristone would limit miscarriage management
The White House on Wednesday proposed a new federal rule to limit how law enforcement and state officials collect medical records if they investigate women who flee their home states to seek abortions elsewhere.
A Planned Parenthood affiliate and two doctors on Wednesday filed a lawsuit seeking to block Idaho authorities from punishing healthcare providers for referring patients to get abortions in other states.
Florida Senate passes 6-week abortion ban backed by DeSantis - he vote prompted demonstrations at the state’s capital that led to the arrest of the leader of the Florida Democratic Party and a state senator.
Kansas House Passes Bill That Would Force Doctors to Lie to Patients About Abortion Pill
Republicans Race to Block Abortion-Rights Ballot Measures- Reversing many years of rhetoric demanding popular control of abortion policy and other cultural hot-button issues, the anti-abortion movement and their Republican allies are now trying to make it harder to place pro-choice initiatives on ballots.
Jackson dissents in abortion case - The newest justice objected as SCOTUS wiped out an appeals court’s decision on minors’ rights to terminate pregnancy.
A Texas man has filed a wrongful-death lawsuit against three women who allegedly helped his ex-wife obtain abortion pills and terminate her pregnancy.
South Carolina woman arrested in 2023, accused of self-managed abortion in 2021
Activists Aim for Supreme Court With Local Abortion Bans in Blue States - "activists say their ultimate goal is to set up legal battles between municipal and state governments that could land before a sympathetic U.S. Supreme Court"
Childbirth is far more dangerous for women than the abortion pill, American Medical Association tells the Texas judge weighing mifepristone ban
A New Kentucky Bill Would Prosecute Illegal Abortions as Criminal Homicide. The bill would overturn the will of the voters, who recently rejected an anti-abortion ballot initiative.
As Abortion Measures Loom, GOP Raises New Barriers to Ballot Initiatives - GOP pushback has been building, as voters have approved a host of progressive ballot initiatives.
Virginia Governor Wants Law Enforcement To Have Access To Your Menstrual Data
TN GOP objects to Right To Life tugging at their leash: A legislative hearing to consider potential changes to Tennessee's no-exception abortion ban sparked unusual public remarks from House Speaker Cameron Sexton (R), who condemned a lobbyist from Right To Life for "intimidation" tactics.
Satanists are opening an abortion clinic. It's named after Sam Alito's Mom.
Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz enshrined the right to abortion and other reproductive health care into Minnesota statutes Tuesday, signing a bill meant to ensure that the state's existing protections remain in place no matter who sits on future courts.
Abortion, gender care legal advice now available for free in Mass., AG says The hotline, which went live at 7 a.m. Monday, can be reached by calling or texting (833) 309-6301.
RNC urges GOP candidates to ‘go on offense’ on abortion in 2024 - The Republican National Committee passed a resolution pushing the strictest antiabortion legislation possible.
Women in the 16 states with the most restrictive abortion laws, including Tennessee, are more than three times more likely to die during pregnancy, childbirth or soon after giving birth, a recent report found.
Federal judge could decide as soon as February to yank abortion pill nationwide – A Trump-appointed judge could decide as soon as February whether to force the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to pull approval of the abortion pill.
Most Abortion Bans Include Exceptions. In Practice, Few Are Granted. - The New York Times Rape victims and patients with complicated pregnancies are confronting the limits of state abortion laws.
Post-Dobbs, pathologists who study pregnancy loss walk a thin line. Placentas can hold important insights into pregnancy loss. Pathologists are worried about how law enforcement might misuse that information.
Getting abortion medication online is easier than ever thanks to regulatory changes. The practice is pushing the boundaries of the traditional doctor-patient relationship.
South Carolina abortion ruling: State Supreme Court protects reproductive rights.
‘Morning after’ pill label changed to clarify it does not cause abortion - The drug works mainly by delaying ovulation, or possibly by preventing fertilization. regulators said.
Report: Maternal Mortality Rates Higher in States With Abortion Bans
Most registered voters in Tennessee want exceptions for rape or incest in the state's sweeping abortion ban , but they largely don't know the specifics of what's in the law as it stands today, according to new Vanderbilt University polling.
An Oklahoma hairstylist is pushing a ballot proposal he wrote that would make abortion access a constitutional right in his deeply red state.
A Kansas judge has blocked the state's ban on prescribing abortion pills via telemedicine, a move that could expand access to abortion.
Georgia high court reinstates ban on abortions after 6 weeks - The Georgia Supreme Court on Wednesday reinstated the state’s ban on abortions after roughly six weeks of pregnancy, abruptly ending access to later abortions that had resumed days earlier.
Conservative group sues FDA to revoke approval of abortion pill - The Washington Post
Women who contact abortion clinics online may have their personal info shared - Most clinics use third-party trackers that pass women's private information on to others.
Abortion misinformation targeting the Latino community in both English and Spanish has been ramping up ahead of the midterm elections, experts say.
Abortion clinic that opened days after Roe fell is inundated
An Indianapolis doctor who performed an abortion on a 10-year-old rape victim from Ohio is suing Indiana's attorney general, seeking to block him from using allegedly “frivolous" consumer complaints to issue subpoenas seeking patients' confidential medical records.
For women in Texas and Louisiana, travel times to the nearest abortion facility increased to over seven hours following the Dobbs v. Jackson’s Women’s Health Organization decision.
Abortion bans pave way for birth control, marriage restrictions - Republicans and the far right are coming for more than abortion rights. That shouldn't just worry Democrats come Election Day.
The crisis pregnancy center next door: How taxpayer money intended for poor families is funding a growing anti-abortion movement | CNN
Judicial elections in five states are more important than ever, with abortion, voting rights and gerrymandering at stake.
What a pregnancy actually looks like before 10 weeks – in pictures (It doesn't look like anything, BTW)
The covert abortion network that could upend GOP plans for a post-Roe America - The Washington Post
Planned Parenthood asks N. Carolina court to let more health workers provide abortions | Reuters
A top Indiana lawyer on Friday questioned the validity of a lawsuit brought by a group of residents who argue that the state's abortion ban violates their religious freedoms.
Post-Roe, non-pregnant people are being denied medications over 'hypothetical' babies
Abortion: 'Heartbreaking' stories go untold, doctors say, as employers 'muzzle' them | CNN
The Supreme Court's California pork regulation case has consequences for abortion.
Spread of Catholic hospitals restricts abortion, birth control access - The Washington Post
At least 66 US clinics have halted abortions, institute says
Would-be parents postpone pregnancies as Texas abortion ban impacts emergency care
Nashville turns focus of Planned Parenthood grant away from abortion
Patients face barriers to routine care as doctors warn of ripple effects from broad abortion bans - POLITICO
Pause on Ohio 'heartbeat' abortion ban extended to Oct. 12
U. of Idaho may stop providing birth control - "Employees could be charged with a felony and fired if they appear to promote abortion"
In GOP legislatures, a gender divide emerges over abortion
Texas vow to 'eliminate all rapists' rings hollow at clinics
Ohio's new abortion law forces doctor to fight to protect her patient's life - CNN
DOJ will defend Alabama VA doctors threatened with abortion prosecutions - The Washington Post
These male politicians are pushing for women who receive abortions to be punished with prison time | CNN Politics
New Abortion Laws Jeopardize Cancer Treatment for Pregnant Patients | Kaiser Health News
Danielle Walker, Black W.V. legislator, stands up for abortion rights - The Washington Post
No Abortion Access for 40 Percent of Female Troops, Study Finds - Government Executive
Lindsey Graham’s Abortion Bill Will Not Loosen Restrictions Anywhere, Only Increase Them
Ohio's six-week abortion ban temporarily blocked by legal challenge | Reuters
U.S. FDA to review Perrigo's birth control pill for OTC use in November | Reuters
Opinion | Republicans make their Dobbs woes worse - The Washington Post
Startup Choix Will Sell Abortion Pills to Patients Who Aren’t Pregnant In Some States
Greg Abbott: Texas governor says rape victims can take Plan B morning-after pill
U.S. veterans agency to offer abortions in cases of rape, health risks | Reuters
California bill to make vasectomies cheaper goes to governor
California may act as US refuge for transgender youth
Indiana abortion clinics sue to block ban set to take effect
UN experts warn of impact of abortion bans on US minorities
Viral video reinforces growing GOP political dilemma on abortion - The Washington Post
U.S. judge blocks Idaho abortion ban in emergencies; Texas restrictions allowed | Reuters
Yelp to add more flags to anti-abortion pregnancy centers
Judge: Idaho abortion ban seems to conflict with federal law