Author
Abortion foes strategize to get Trump to ban some abortions while keeping his pledge
The 2024 election results created complicated new realities for reproductive rights in the U.S., with Americans even in a few red states overwhelmingly聽voting to protect聽the right to have an abortion while also overwhelmingly electing anti-abortion representatives in state houses, courts, Congress and the White House. With a Republican trifecta coming to the nation鈥檚 capital in […]
Voters in at least seven states restore reproductive rights
In the first presidential election since the U.S. Supreme Court overturned the federal right to an abortion, former President Donald Trump, who touted during the campaign he 鈥渨as able to kill Roe v. Wade,鈥澛爓on a second term聽in the White House. Simultaneously, seven out of 10 states voted to restore or expand abortion rights, according to […]
Political scientists lay out how abortion views could impact the vote
Political scientists and pollsters who have been studying attitudes on abortion since Roe v. Wade was overturned in June 2022 told States Newsroom that abortion has become a motivating factor for voters, with the majority opposing the criminalization of pregnancy. Those who support abortion rights are expecting strong turnout, though advocates around the country are […]
Reproductive health care in the Southeast hinges on Florida abortion-rights measure, doctors say
Dr. Cherise Felix says a recent patient yelled and swore at her before eventually hugging her, grateful she would no longer have to carry the planned-for baby that had died inside her. Felix provides abortions at Planned Parenthood clinics in Florida, which on May 1 banned abortion at six weeks鈥 gestation. She was able to […]
Anti-abortion researchers take legal action over retracted studies cited in FDA case
Researchers whose anti-abortion-funded studies were used to argue for restrictions on medication abortion 鈥 and then were聽retracted聽on methodological grounds 鈥 are now taking legal action against academic publisher Sage, which pulled their papers in February. Represented by conservative law firms聽Consovoy McCarthy聽and聽Alliance Defending Freedom, the latter of which sued the Food and Drug Administration over abortion […]
Will abortion swing the first post-Roe presidential election?
Editor鈥檚 note: This five-day series explores the priorities of voters in Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin as they consider the upcoming presidential election. With the outcome expected to be close, these 鈥渟wing states鈥 may decide the future of the country. Dr. Kristin Lyerly鈥檚 placenta detached from her uterus when she was […]
Post-Roe health provider survey finds abortion bans create bad outcomes and distress
In the two years since the U.S. Supreme Court started allowing states 鈥 what has become聽almost half of the country聽鈥 to ban all or most abortions, doctors continue to report that these laws have detrimentally changed their jobs and the quality of care they can provide pregnant patients. A research team led by Dr. Daniel […]
鈥楶erfect storm鈥 of crises is leading to cutbacks in abortion care, advocates say
Advocates for abortion access say compounding crises of abortion bans, rising economic costs and systemic health care issues are beginning to cause significant funding challenges and potential disruptions to reproductive care of all kinds. Several people described it as a 鈥減erfect storm鈥 of problems with the U.S. health care system, particularly post-pandemic, and the rise […]
Rhetoric versus reality: Addressing common misconceptions about abortion
Reproductive rights has taken center stage in the first post-Roe presidential election that presently features a聽longtime advocate for reproductive rights聽in possible Democratic nominee Vice President Kamala Harris, opposite former Republican President Donald Trump, whose three appointed U.S. Supreme Court justices helped overturn federal abortion rights. Although Trump鈥檚 former health staffers have co-authored the Heritage Foundation鈥檚 […]
Anti-abortion researchers back riskier procedures when pregnancy termination is needed, experts say
The day the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in 2022, the medical board that certifies OB-GYNs in America released a聽statement聽calling legal pregnancy termination and knowledge of abortion procedures 鈥渆ssential to reproductive health care.鈥 But a small number of influential anti-abortion doctors have spent the last two years trying to change the reproductive health […]
Arkansas OB-GYN says proposed abortion-rights amendment could revive standard of care
Of the several聽state abortion-rights initiatives聽trying to make it to the ballot this November, Arkansas鈥 is perhaps the most controversial among reproductive justice advocates, as it would reinstate an abortion policy more restrictive than under Roe v. Wade. Attempting to also appeal to the conservative voters of the deep red,聽heavily gerrymandered聽state, Arkansans for Limited Government鈥檚聽proposed Arkansas […]
Modern-day 鈥楥omstocks鈥 look to police travel, information as another strategy to end abortion
Mark Lee Dickson says he鈥檚 been home maybe once in the two years since the U.S. Supreme Court vanished federal abortion rights in Dobbs v. Jackson Women鈥檚 Health Organization. The 38-year-old director of Right to Life of East Texas in Longview has been on an endless road trip trying to set legal traps for people […]