Reproductive Rights Today

Campaigners behind the effort to widen abortion rights in Arizona, a state with a 15-week ban, say they’ve collected over half a million signatures for the petition. 

The Florida Supreme Court ruled Monday that a six-week ban on abortion statewide can go into effect in 30 days, but it also allowed a ballot initiative to include abortion access in the state constitution to move forward in the November election, Florida Phoenix reported.

Abortion-related bills continue to be introduced and debated in 40 legislatures across the country, especially in states where the procedure is already banned. It can be hard to monitor them all, so States Newsroom’s Reproductive Rights Today team tracks certain bills that could become law in their respective states in a biweekly legislative roundup. Depending on the partisan makeup of a state’s legislature and other state government officials, some bills have a higher chance of passing and becoming law than others. 

The legislative session in Kentucky is winding down soon, but it's unclear if a maternal health ‘momnibus’ bill will advance. 

The Florida Supreme Court has until Monday to decide whether an abortion rights measure can make the November ballot. 

Few states require insurers to cover fertility treatments for same-sex couples. But a new definition of infertility could change that, Stateline reported. 

Self-managed abortions rose by more than 26,000 in the six months after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade nearly two years ago, according to a peer-reviewed study published Monday in JAMA, the American Medical Association’s journal. 

WASHINGTON — The future of medication abortion access in the United States went in front of the U.S. Supreme Court justices on Tuesday, where several justices appeared somewhat skeptical as anti-abortion organizations argued use of the pharmaceutical should be moved back to what was in place before 2016.

The same U.S. Supreme Court that overturned the constitutional right to an abortion will hear oral arguments Tuesday over access to mifepristone, a pharmaceutical used in both medication abortion and miscarriage care. 

Doctors in Arkansas joined a national network that’s calling for in vitro fertilization legal protections following the Alabama Supreme Court ruling that temporarily halted IVF services in the state last month. 

Legislation that would repeal Michigan’s ban on paid surrogacy contracts is on the governor’s desk. 

Democratic Sen. Eva Burch urged her Republican colleagues to consider loosening Arizona’s abortion laws, but they walked out as she said she will terminate her unviable pregnancy, Arizona Mirror reported.