The same Supreme Court that overruled Roe v. Wade two years ago on Thursday followed well-established constitutional principles to dismiss a lawsuit that sought to restrict the availability of mifepristone, a drug used to medically induce…
The leaders of three key abortion rights groups are traveling to Michigan this week to campaign for Rep. Elissa Slotkin (D-Mich.) in her bid for the U.S. Senate. The presidents of Emily’s List, Planned Parenthood and Reproductive Freedom…
In just two years, the Comstock Act went from being a defunct 1873 law to an existential threat to abortion rights in America. This is largely thanks to the creative lawyering of one man: Jonathan Mitchell. A once-fringe anti-abortion…
Abortions in the US increased in 2023 compared to 2020, with increases most pronounced in states such as Illinois, New Mexico and Virginia, which border states with a ban, according to the Guttmacher Institute, an abortion rights research…
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) on Monday took action to set up a vote on the Reproductive Freedom for Women Act, which would re-establish a national right to an abortion before the third trimester of pregnancy by enshrining…
Even more Texas women support the right to legally access abortion since the state ban on the procedure went into effect in 2022, according to a new study from Resound Research for Reproductive Health. The study, which incorporates data…
The 2022 Dobbs decision that overturned 50 years of abortion rights is affecting where young people choose to go to college, to work and to live, as well as the way they vote.
CHICAGO -- After a string of defeats, groups opposed to abortion, and their Republican allies in state governments, are using an array of strategies to counter proposed ballot initiatives aimed at codifying the right to abortion or to…
Anti-abortion groups and their Republican allies in state governments are using a range of strategies to counter proposed ballot initiatives that are intended to protect reproductive rights or prevent voters from having a say in the fall.…