More Than 171,000 People Crossed State Lines to Get an Abortion in 2023
The study examined travel for abortion that occurred in 2023, the first full year after Roe v. Wade was dismantled.
GOP Senators Block IVF Protection Bill
The bill failed to overcome the threat of a Senate filibuster, with 47 Republicans voting against its passage.
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”
Reproductive Justice is an International Human Rights Framework, So Why Are Groups Getting Pushback for Supporting Palestine?
Many abortion support groups nationwide say addressing reproductive injustice in Gaza is also part of their mission.
Israeli Forces Hit the Main Fertility Clinic in Gaza. Legal Experts Ask, Is It Genocide?
By Dawn Clancy / PassBlue For more than a decade, Mohammad Ajjour helped Palestinian couples in Gaza facing infertility to achieve their dreams of parenthood. But in a single missile…
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.
Arizona’s 1864 Abortion Law Was Made in a Women’s Rights Desert – Here’s What Life Was Like Then
By Calvin Schermerhorn / The Conversation Dora Juhl, a 15-year-old teenager, walked into Dr. Rosa Goodrich Boido’s obstetrical practice in Phoenix in January 1918. Juhl wanted to end her pregnancy.…
State Legislators Are Taking the Maternal Mortality Crisis Into Their Own Hands
State lawmakers — many of whom are women — are establishing new committees to study and investigate investigating pregnancy-related deaths, their causes and prevention.
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…
Pregnancy in Jails: A New Report Finds Flagrant Violations of Illinois Laws
Jails throughout Illinois continually deny, restrict, interfere with, or discriminate against pregnant people’s rights to reproductive care.
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.