SCOTUS Blocks Mifepristone Challenge, Keeping Abortion Medication Legal for Now
The high court ruled that the challengers to the FDA approval of mifepristone lacked standing to make their case.
Wins at the Ballot Box for Abortion Rights Still Mean Court Battles for Access
By Bram Sable-Smith / KFF Health News Before Ohio voters amended their constitution last year to protect abortion rights, the state’s attorney general, an anti-abortion Republican, said that doing so…
Texas Ruling and Louisiana Abortion Pill Restrictions Are Bad Omens for Pending SCOTUS Decisions
By Kathy Spillar / Ms. Magazine Even as we wait for U.S. Supreme Court decisions in two cases set to come down this month that could have massive impacts on…
Q&A: Undoing Abortion Rights Is Creating an Impact We Will ‘Feel for Decades’
Journalist Shefali Luthra discusses reporting on the post-Roe abortion landscape in her new book, “Undue Burden”
Nevada Coalition Submits 200K+ Signatures for Abortion Rights Ballot Measure
"The number of signatures gathered in just over three months shows how deeply Nevadans believe in abortion rights," said one campaigner.
From Crowded to Quiet: Inside a Clinic as Florida Bans Abortions After Six Weeks
At A Woman’s Choice in Jacksonville, staffers treated a surge of last-minute patients before the May 1 deadline. Now, they will have to refer most of them out of state.
GOP Lawmakers Block Bill to Repeal Arizona’s 1864 Anti-Abortion Statute, Again
Republican leaders claimed a repeal bill for the 160-year-old anti-abortion statute was being rushed.
Arizona Supreme Court’s Abortion Ruling Plunges State Back to 1864
The law is so outdated it was created before scientists understood how ovulation worked.
Majority of Women in States With Abortion Bans Believe Access Should Be Legal
More than 20 percent of women ages 18 to 49 in those states also said they or someone they know struggled to access abortion after Roe’s overturn, a first-of-its-kind KFF…
If Supreme Court Restricts Abortion Pills, Birth Control Could Be Next
Republicans across the country have blocked Democratic efforts to codify the right to use contraception.
A Year After Roe: College Student in Texas Was Denied an Abortion Even Though Ectopic Pregnancy Was Killing Her
The case is yet another example of how Texas’s “life-saving” abortion exception has been ignored.
States That Restrict Abortion Have Higher Rates of Intimate Partner Homicide
“here’s an epidemic of preventable violence that disproportionately affects vulnerable populations,” one study finds.
More ‘Navigators’ Are Helping Women Travel to Have Abortions
By Lillian Mongeau Hughes / KFF Health News Chloe Bell is a case manager at the National Abortion Federation. She spends her days helping people cover the cost of an…
Most State Abortion Bans Have Limited Exceptions − but It’s Hard to Understand What They Mean
By Naomi Cahn and Sonia Suter / The Conversation More than a year after the Supreme Court found there is no fundamental right to get an abortion, 21 states have…
No One’s Access to Abortion Is Guaranteed — No Matter Where You Live
Living in a “blue state” does not guarantee the availability of abortion care to everyone who needs it.