Abortion

The battles over abortion in the U.S. are increasingly focusing on the pills that are now the most common way pregnancies are ended.

Texas has sued a New York doctor for prescribing abortion pills to a Texas woman via telemedicine. It appears to be the first challenge in the U.S. to a state shield law that’s intended to protect prescribers in Democratic-controlled states from being punished by states with abortion bans.

Contrary to many predictions, abortions did not decline nationally after the Supreme Court’s Dobbs decision. Here’s what’s behind the trend.

A judge has struck down Wyoming’s overall ban on abortion and its first-in-the nation explicit prohibition on the use of medication to end pregnancy.

When patients who have appointments at the Planned Parenthood in Carbondale, Illinois, are late, staff members often know where to find them — at the crisis pregnancy center right next door.

Trump could further restrict or effectively ban abortion on the federal level through methods that won’t require Congress to pass new legislation.

President-elect Donald Trump’s victory in an election in which abortion rights were a heavy focus raises major questions about what might come next for abortion access in the U.S. 

Some states have added abortion rights to their Constitution, while two have rejected measures.

While a majority of voters supported the ballot measure, the yes votes fell just short of the 60% needed to pass.

John Legend recently shared more details about the late-term abortion his wife Chrissy Teigen had in September 2020 when they lost baby boy Jack: “She was bleeding out.”

The ad encourages people to vote “yes” on a ballot initiative that would override the state’s abortion ban.

In a sharply worded ruling, U.S. District Judge Mark E. Walker issued a temporary restraining order calling threats by the Florida Department of Health “unconstitutional coercion.”

Maryland is one of 10 states with abortion-related measures on the ballot in November, most of which would protect abortion rights.

A survey has found that abortion has passed inflation to become the top issue in the presidential election for women younger than 30.

The issue remains legally and politically fraught two years after the U.S. Supreme Court struck down Roe v. Wade and overruled the nationwide right to abortion.

The Georgia Supreme Court has halted a ruling striking down the state’s near-ban on abortions while the state appeals.

The justices kept in place a lower court order that said hospitals cannot be required to provide pregnancy terminations that would violate Texas law.

Under the new law, the drugs mifepristone and misoprostol will be designated as Schedule IV controlled substances.

Republican Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is suing the city of Austin to block what he says is an “unlawful” use of taxpayer money to help women obtain out-of-state abortions.

Abortion funds have been around for decades, but they got big boosts from donors around the time the Supreme Court ended a national right to abortion. But this year, some of the organizations have had to cap the aid they can give.