Reproductive Rights Today

When Kentucky Republican Daniel Cameron served as attorney general, he defended the state’s abortion restrictions — a trigger law enacted after Roe v. Wade fell more than two years ago and a six-week ban — in countless lawsuits. 

Vice presidential candidates U.S. Sen. J.D. Vance, an Ohio Republican, and Gov. Tim Walz, a Minnesota Democrat, clashed on abortion during a debate hosted by CBS News. Vance argued that his party would advance “pro-family” policies, while Walz countered that restoring abortion rights can exist in tandem with family-friendly policies. 

U.S. Sen. J.D. Vance, an Ohio Republican, and Gov. Tim Walz, a Minnesota Democrat, are set to debate tonight in New York City. The vice presidential candidates have contrasting views on abortion rights. Both supported maternal health initiatives in Congress. 

Seven swing states will be crucial to the outcome of the presidential election, the first since the U.S. Supreme Court overturned the federal right to an abortion more than two years ago. In two battlegrounds — Arizona and Nevada — abortion referendums will be directly on the ballot. 

Dr. Kristin Lyerly’s placenta detached from her uterus when she was 17 weeks pregnant with her fourth son in 2007. Her doctor in Madison, Wisconsin, gave the devastated recent medical school graduate one option: to deliver and bury her dead child. But she requested a dilation and evacuation abortion procedure, knowing it would be less invasive and risky than being induced. And she couldn’t fathom the agony of holding her tiny dead baby.

Bernie Moreno, an Ohio Republican running for a U.S. Senate seat, is under fire from Republicans and Democrats for saying many suburban women are “single issue voters” who only care about abortion. 

At least 210 Americans faced pregnancy-related criminal charges the year after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned the federal right to an abortion, new research shows. 

There’s a common misconception that religious Americans uniformly oppose abortion rights. The stereotype particularly plagues Latinos. But new polling shows 68% of Americans, including significant percentages of Hispanic Protestants and Catholics, believe abortion should be legal in either all or most cases. 

Americans in 10 states are set to vote on abortion-rights ballot measures in November, and two of those proposed amendments were initiated by lawmakers instead of citizens. 

America has a history of punishing pregnant people who struggle with drugs and alcohol. In fact, fetal personhood laws are used in several states to prosecute substance use during pregnancy.

Reluctance from hospitals to provide abortion care to a cancer patient. Pleas for help from women. Legal loopholes to treat pregnancy complications. 

With fewer than 50 days remaining before the election, in vitro fertilization continues to be a major campaign talking point as federal lawmakers weigh protections for the fertility treatment. Both former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris have expressed support for securing IVF access nationally.