Abortion

Abortion-rights supporters in several states have used the citizen initiative process to protect access in the two years since the U.S. Supreme Court overturned a constitutional right to the procedure. But voters in half the states don’t have that right, including many of the Republican-controlled states in the South that have passed near total abortion bans since the court ruling....

Here’s a look at what Thursday’s Supreme Court decision on mifepristone does and does not mean for abortion access.

The Supreme Court ruled 9-0 to reject a challenge by anti-abortion doctors to restrict access to mifepristone, a commonly used abortions medication.

Senate Republicans have blocked legislation designed to protect women’s access to contraception, arguing that the bill was just a political stunt as Democrats mount an election-year effort to put GOP senators on the record on reproductive rights issues,

Southwest Airlines is going back to federal court in hopes of reversing an $800,000 award to a flight attendant who says she was fired for her anti-abortion views.

Arizona doctors can temporarily come to California to perform abortions for their patients under a new law signed by Gov. Gavin Newsom. California’s law is meant to circumvent an Arizona law that bans nearly all abortions in that state. The Arizona Supreme Court ruled that law can take effect next month. The Arizona Legislature responded by repealing the law earlier...

Louisiana lawmakers have approved a first-of-its-kind bill that would classify two abortion-inducing drugs as a controlled and dangerous substances. The final Senate vote Thursday came despite widespread criticism from doctors, who note that the drugs have other critical reproductive health care uses. They say changing the classification could make it harder to prescribe the drugs, delaying crucial treatment for patients....

Louisiana lawmakers on Tuesday approved a bill that would add two medications commonly used to induce an abortion to the state’s list of controlled dangerous substances, making possession of the drugs without a valid prescription a crime punishable by a fine, jail time or both.

The number of applicants to these post-graduate training programs dropped slightly across the board from spring of 2023 to spring of 2024, with larger decreases seen in states with abortion bans

The Arizona Senate voted Wednesday to pass a repeal of the near-total ban on abortion from 1864 that was upheld by the battleground state’s Supreme Court last month.

Seventeen states are challenging new federal rules entitling workers to time off and other accommodations for abortions.

On their third attempt in three weeks, Arizona state House lawmakers voted Wednesday to pass a bill that would repeal the near-total ban on abortion from 1864 that was upheld by the battleground state’s Supreme Court earlier this month.

The Justice Department says abortion care must be allowed in emergencies that seriously threaten a woman’s health under a federal health care law that requires hospitals accepting Medicare to provide emergency care regardless of patients’ ability to pay.

Since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, there’s been an ongoing increase in adults ages 18 to 30 who undergo tubal ligation or vasectomy, new research shows.

Former President Donald Trump told reporters from a tarmac in Atlanta on Wednesday that Arizona’s abortion ruling went too far.

Hours after the Arizona Supreme Court ruled that a near-total ban on abortion is enforceable, numerous Arizona Republicans who previously celebrated the end of federal protections for the procedure sought political cover by distancing themselves from the ruling.

The former president did not say what he would do if Congress sent him a bill banning abortions nationally.

In a video released on his Truth Social media platform, former President Donald Trump says abortion restrictions should be left to states.

Biden’s campaign is getting help from two women who say abortion restrictions put them in medical peril.

A pregnant Arizona lawmaker who revealed in a speech in the state Senate that she’s planning to get an abortion says she wanted to share with the public the practical effects of abortion restrictions passed over the years. age.