Planned Parenthood

A central Illinois man has pleaded guilty to setting fire to a Planned Parenthood clinic last month, the U.S. attorney’s office said Friday. Tyler W. Massengill, 32, of Chillicothe admitted to setting fire to the Peoria clinic with an explosive on Jan. 15, two days after Illinois approved expansive reproductive health care legislation aimed at protecting abortion patients and providers. Massengill, who pleaded...

Peoria police and fire officials are investigating a fire at a central Illinois Planned Parenthood clinic as arson, police said Tuesday. The incident occurred Sunday night, two days after Gov. J.B. Pritzker signed into law reproductive health care legislation to protect out-of-state abortion seekers. The measure added Illinois to the list of states that have placed legal reinforcements around the...

A Kansas abortion clinic that was among the first in the country to open after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade has been inundated with patients.

In the nearly four months since the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, Planned Parenthood of Illinois says they’ve seen a record number of abortion patients travel to Illinois from outside the state.

Planned Parenthood officials on Monday announced plans for a mobile abortion clinic — a 37-foot RV that will stay in Illinois but travel close to the borders of adjoining states that have banned the procedure since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade earlier this year.

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

Mayor Lightfoot on Thursday signed an executive order prohibiting city agencies from participating in any investigation of those who travel to Chicago for procedures related to reproductive health care. NBC 5’s Political Reporter Mary Ann Ahern has the story.

As many as five thousand abortion patients were expected to seek treatment at four Planned Parenthood clinics in Wisconsin this year, but after the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn the Roe v. Wade decision, a ban on the procedure is now in effect, sending those patients to seek care elsewhere.

In her 2022 BET Awards opening monologue, host Taraji P. Henson applauded Lizzo for her and Live Nation’s $1 million pledge toward Planned Parenthood after the Supreme Court overturned Roe V. Wade.

The annual marches in New York, San Francisco, Chicago and elsewhere take place after at least one Supreme Court justice signaled, in a ruling on abortion, that the court could reconsider the right to same-sex marriage recognized in 2015.

Planned Parenthood Association of Utah filed a lawsuit in Utah state court Saturday and will request a temporary restraining order against the states ban on abortion.

Planned Parenthood of Illinois is expanding access to the abortion pill for patients in and out of state after a leaked Supreme Court draft opinion showed the court poised to overturn Roe v. Wade, the 1973 landmark case protecting abortion rights.

Both sides are telling the Supreme Court there’s no middle ground in Wednesday’s showdown over abortion

In only a handful of cases has the Supreme Court moved as quickly as it is in the fight over the Texas law that bans most abortions.

A federal judge has ordered Texas to suspend a new law banning most abortions in the state, but that doesn’t mean abortion services will instantly resume.