abortion

At least 66 clinics have stopped providing abortions in 15 states since the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v Wade.

A year since Texas’ law went into effect in September 2021, at least a dozen states have bans that make no exceptions in cases of rape or incest.

The way President Joe Biden sees it, the overturning of Roe vs. Wade by the Supreme Court wasn’t just about whether a woman has the right to obtain an abortion. “It’s about freedom,” Biden said this past week while in New York. Vice President Kamala Harris tells voters that “extremist, so-called leaders trumpet the rhetoric of freedom while they take...

An Arizona judge says the state can enforce a near-total ban on abortions that has been blocked for nearly 50 years.

Nearly two years after Chrissy Teigen suffered a pregnancy loss, the Cravings founder shared that she had a life-saving abortion.

Residents are reacting after a statewide ban on most abortions went into effect in Indiana overnight, NBC 5’s Christian Farr reports.

California has launched a publicly funded website to promote the state’s abortion services. The website is part of Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom’s pledge to make California a sanctuary for women seeking abortions. The website includes information on different types of abortions and how to get one. It lets people know their legal rights, including that teenagers don’t need their parents’...

Roe v. Wade was overturned, so what happens now? The doors of thousands of abortion clinics are now closed, but the impacts of this historic decision go far beyond access to abortion services. LX News Visual Storyteller Jalyn Henderson breaks down the legal, social and economic impacts we may say as we continue to live in a Post-Roe America.

Pennsylvania Senate candidate Mehmet Oz said in May that abortion at any stage of pregnancy is “still murder” because he believes that life begins at conception, according to newly obtained audio.

In states such as Texas, Ohio and Indiana, some college students say new abortion restrictions are influencing their personal and political behavior as they return to campuses. Some students say they’re changing their sexual behavior, being more careful about using contraceptives, keeping emergency contraception on hand or thinking through how they would respond to a pregnancy. More publicly, the U.S....

Serious pregnancy complications that may endanger the health of the mother, fetus or both may force patients and their physicians to consider abortions, but laws enacted since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade limit that option.

Walmart, the nation’s largest employer, is expanding its abortion coverage for employees after staying largely mum on the issue following the Supreme Court ruling that scrapped a nationwide right to abortion.

The nation’s leading abortion rights advocacy organization, Planned Parenthood, plans to spend a record $50 million ahead of November’s midterm elections.

The case of a Nebraska woman charged with helping her teenage daughter end her pregnancy after investigators obtained Facebook messages between the two has raised fresh concerns about data privacy in the post-Roe world.

In states that have near-total abortion bans, pregnant women in need of lifesaving care have been forced to wait as hospitals weighed legal risks

The administration of President Joe Biden and one of Indiana’s largest employers have condemned the state’s new ban on abortions, with the White House calling it another extreme attempt by Republicans to trample women’s rights.

Indiana’s governor signed a relief bill Friday night that will provide $200 rebate payments from the state’s surging budget surplus.

A deeply divided Indiana House voted Thursday to keep exceptions in cases of rape or incest in a bill that would ban nearly all abortions in the state.

Governor J.B. Pritzker announced on Thursday that Illinois is increasing Medicaid reimbursement rates for abortion services by 20% and expanding funding for reproductive health service providers across the state.

Republican gubernatorial nominee Darren Bailey on Tuesday tried to minimize comments he made five years ago in which he said the Holocaust “doesn’t even compare” to abortion — remarks that have enflamed the Jewish community and the state’s Jewish governor, J.B. Pritzker.