Reproductive Rights Today

Of the dozen states that ban most abortions, many in the South also have high maternal death rates. 

The anti-abortion movement has framed certain protections for abortion care as attacks on parental rights. 

In the days following President Donald Trump’s win in November, a national abortion-assistance hotline was being inundated with calls.

Since the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in 2022 to allow states to regulate abortion, support for expanded access to abortion pills has significantly increased, including among those living in states with abortion bans, according to a new study from the Journal of the American Medical Association. 

Officials are preemptively moving to protect reproductive health care as President-elect Donald Trump’s second term in the White House approaches.

The movement to add an Equal Rights Amendment to the U.S. Constitution has a beleaguered history. Although the deadline for ratification passed in the early 1980s, women’s rights advocates are still calling for ERA to become law, days before the former president instrumental in overturning the federal right to an abortion starts a second term. 

As the public health and legal effects of overturning Roe v. Wade continue to unfold, researchers have also begun studying the economic consequences of the historic Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization decision that ended federal abortion rights.

Taking abortion pills at home helps reduce stigma associated with pregnancy termination, according to recent findings. 

Eight states — Alabama, Arkansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Tennessee and Texas — lack pathways for sexual assault survivors to get abortions. 

A Texas pastor who has been traveling across the country lobbying small towns, cities and counties to pass anti-abortion ordinances has not given up on his crusade, despite recent losses. 

A Washington state-based nonprofit has launched a program training pharmacists to prescribe abortion medications via telehealth, a model that organizers hope other states will adopt to expand abortion access.

Idahoans can receive an advanced supply of birth control thanks to a new law that took effect on Jan. 1.