Abortion

“I will not be signing an extradition order that came from the governor of Louisiana, not now, not ever,” Gov. Kathy Hochul said.

A Texas judge has fined a New York doctor for prescribing abortion pills to a woman near Dallas in one of the first challenges in the U.S. to shield laws enacted in Democratic-controlled states where abortion is legal.

The case appears to be the first instance of criminal charges against a doctor accused of sending abortion pills to another state.

The anti-abortion rights march is set to draw thousands to Washington, D.C. Here’s what to expect.

President Donald Trump is pardoning anti-abortion activists who were convicted in the October 2020 invasion and blockade of a Washington clinic.

Cecile Richards, who led Planned Parenthood for over a decade, lost her battle with cancer on Monday.

The abortion rights advocate died on Monday of brain cancer at age 67.

A federal judge in Texas is allowing three other states to pursue a challenge seeking to restrict access to the abortion pill mifepristone nationwide.

Two years after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, most Republican-controlled states have implemented bans or deep restrictions on abortions.

Tennessee has a nearly total abortion ban and a porous safety net for mothers and young children. GOP state leaders in Tennessee and other states that banned abortion after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in 2022 argue that they are bolstering services for families. Recent research and an analysis by The Associated Press has found that from...

The battles over abortion in the U.S. are increasingly focusing on the pills that are now the most common way pregnancies are ended.

Texas has sued a New York doctor for prescribing abortion pills to a Texas woman via telemedicine. It appears to be the first challenge in the U.S. to a state shield law that’s intended to protect prescribers in Democratic-controlled states from being punished by states with abortion bans.

Contrary to many predictions, abortions did not decline nationally after the Supreme Court’s Dobbs decision. Here’s what’s behind the trend.

A judge has struck down Wyoming’s overall ban on abortion and its first-in-the nation explicit prohibition on the use of medication to end pregnancy.

When patients who have appointments at the Planned Parenthood in Carbondale, Illinois, are late, staff members often know where to find them — at the crisis pregnancy center right next door.

Trump could further restrict or effectively ban abortion on the federal level through methods that won’t require Congress to pass new legislation.

President-elect Donald Trump’s victory in an election in which abortion rights were a heavy focus raises major questions about what might come next for abortion access in the U.S. 

Some states have added abortion rights to their Constitution, while two have rejected measures.

While a majority of voters supported the ballot measure, the yes votes fell just short of the 60% needed to pass.

John Legend recently shared more details about the late-term abortion his wife Chrissy Teigen had in September 2020 when they lost baby boy Jack: “She was bleeding out.”