This year significantly shaped how people access reproductive care, with far-ranging impacts across health care
Inside a ceremony at a Maryland facility that has galvanized the religious community on both sides of the abortion debate.
Patients, doctors, and activists in 2024 fought for renewed and expanded reproductive rights, while others pushed for more restrictions.
But she's infuriated by Tennessee's meager social services, which leave her and many other moms struggling in a state where abortion is banned with limited exceptions. “I was going to have my child no matter what, but for other women, that’s kind of a ...
States with restrictive abortion laws generally have more porous safety nets for mothers and young children, according to recent research and an analysis by The Associated Press. Tennessee is an example of how this plays out.
This story was originally published by The 19th and KFF Health News. Sign up for the 19th’s newsletter. BAKER CITY, Oregon — In what has become a routine event in rural America, a hospital maternity ward closed in 2023 in this small Oregon town about an hour from the Idaho border.
In states with abortion bans, ProPublica has found, pregnant women have bled to death, succumbed to fatal infections and wound up in morgues with what medical examiners recorded were “products of conception” still in their bodies.
Many women are often told not to expect pain worse than menstrual cramps when taking abortion pills to end a pregnancy, according to a new study in a medical journal.
The battles over abortion in the U.S. are increasingly focusing on the pills that are now the most common way pregnancies are ended
The state will continue dozens of criminal accusations against individual petition circulators accused of forging signatures.
Republican lawmakers have proposed a number of constitutional amendments that would overturn Amendment 3. Some include exceptions for survivors of rape or incest, a departure from the party’s recent stance on abortion.
Physicians in Missouri should be able to begin providing abortions following a Jackson County judge's Dec. 20 ruling, but for women in Mid-Missouri, nothing has changed.