Abortion
From maternal mortality to abortion rights to birth control, this is a look at the state of reproductive health.
The latest in Abortion
The justices are awful at their jobs, and they don’t know that they are awful at their jobs.
The leaked decision is not a victory for abortion rights.
My family reunion is in South Carolina. Essential care for my high-risk pregnancy is not.
The ripple effects of the fall of Roe extend far beyond abortion.
Americans are confronting a whole new reality of patchwork abortion access after the Dobbs decision.
The decision is unanimous, but it leaves open two routes Republicans could take to pull mifepristone from the market.
A defunct federal law is Republicans’ best hope of banning abortion throughout the United States.
This is what happens after four years under an insurrectionist president. It will get much worse if he gets eight.
How conspiring doctors, questionable tonics, and twisted patriotism led to the 1864 Arizona abortion ban that has finally been repealed.
A six-week ban takes effect this week, though voters could overturn it in November.
But it’s not yet clear they’ve settled on a rationale for doing so.
A massive effort to expand access throughout Europe launches today.
The judges aren’t done.
To see what a second Trump administration would mean for reproductive rights, look to Arizona’s abortion ban, not Trump’s cheap words.
A federal law requires hospitals to provide abortions when necessary to prevent serious health consequences. The justices could neutralize that law.
Simmering tensions between traditionalist Republican judges and MAGA judges are starting to boil over.
The lawsuit challenging mifepristone should have never been heard by any court.
What the debate over the fertility industry misses.
Roughly 80 percent of House Republicans just lined up behind a plan to cut Social Security and ban all abortions.
The stakes in the Supreme Court’s mifepristone case go way beyond abortion.
There were more abortions in 2023 than in any year since 2011.
By inhibiting drug development, economic growth, and military recruitment, as well as driving doctors away from the places they’re needed most, bans almost certainly harm you — yes, you.
Voters who skipped the midterms are different.
With courts coming for abortion and IVF, it’s hard not to wonder what the Supreme Court will go after next.
Some actually good news about Americans’ abortion access.
The anti-abortion legal theory that could jeopardize IVF around the country.
Contraception, like IVF, poses problems for those claiming personhood begins at conception.
South Dakota organizers want to repeal their total ban.
The movement to treat embryos as full-fledged people is taking a victory lap.
Did Alabama’s Supreme Court just ban IVF treatments?
Worsened anxiety and depression is a predictable (and costly) effect of abortion bans.
Many reproductive health organizations want to codify stronger standards. They’re not going to pick that fight this year.
The Court blocked a lower court order enforcing a federal law that protects patients who require medically necessary abortions.
The Trumpiest court in America just tried to neutralize a federal law requiring most hospitals to provide medically necessary abortions.
How activists, clinicians, and businesses are getting abortion medication to all 50 states.
Legal challenges are aiming to take mifepristone off the market. An alternative, however, exists.
The justices will decide whether to ban mifepristone, a drug used in half of US abortions.
The court’s opinion reads like something out of Franz Kafka, or maybe something out of Jim Crow.
Kate Cox’s case speaks to the “hellish” legal limbo these bans put patients, and providers, in.
A federal law requires most hospitals to perform emergency abortions. The question is whether a Republican Supreme Court will enforce it.