Reproductive Rights Today

A federal judge ruled this week that language accommodating abortion must be removed from the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act. 

U.S. House Republicans have included an item in the Medicaid budget proposal that could devastate rural reproductive health care. 

Abortion pills — and questions over their inherent safety — were back in federal court Monday. Unlike a lawsuit rejected by the U.S. Supreme Court last year, plaintiffs this time are not anti-abortion activists arguing medication abortion should be banned, but abortion providers arguing the remaining restrictions should be lifted to match the drug’s 25-year record of safety and efficacy.

There are periods of Hannah Lord’s life when her full-time job is doctors’ appointments.

The Trump administration has agreed to review the safety and efficacy of abortion pills, based on white papers funded by far-right organizations, which reproductive health experts say are unscientific and contradict decades of research showing low rates of serious adverse events for the most common form of abortion.

Republicans in the Missouri Senate used a procedural move Wednesday to shut down a Democratic filibuster over a resolution seeking to overturn an abortion-rights amendment that 52% of voters approved last year. 

Three of Michigan's restrictions on abortions — a 24-hour waiting period, mandated counseling and a law that only allowed doctors to perform them — were struck down by a judge this week, more than two years after voters approved a reproductive rights amendment. 

Tucked away in the congressional budget unveiled by the U.S. House Republicans this week is a line item to prohibit funding to abortion providers. 

Two years ago, OB-GYN physicians told South Dakota Searchlight that the state’s abortion ban would exacerbate an already dismal maternal care landscape, with a majority of the state’s counties lacking any obstetric providers.

For two congresswomen sponsoring a package of bills seeking to improve maternal health in the United States, their motivation is personal.

Nearly 20% of transgender, nonbinary, agender and genderqueer Americans said abortion bans have made accessing medical providers more difficult, a new report found. 

Republicans who dominate states where canvassers circulated abortion-rights petitions last year are passing laws making it harder for citizens to propose constitutional amendments.