Reproductive Rights Today

Researchers found that 63% of all abortions provided in the U.S. last year were medication abortions. 

Doulas — holistic birth workers who help mothers navigate pregnancy — in Missouri are not guaranteed Medicaid reimbursements. As a result, some doulas offer a sliding-scale fee to families who cannot afford the full cost of their services. 

A 39-year-old single mother of two got up extra early on a recent Wednesday morning, hoping to be one of the first outside the Planned Parenthood clinic near Phoenix, Arizona. 

House Minority Leader Anthony Daniels, the same Alabama Democrat who sponsored a constitutional amendment to protect IVF, is pushing a bill that would protect access to contraception. Daniels’ proposal would also allow providers to distribute contraceptives and advise their patients, Alabama Reflector reported. 

U.S. Sen. Patty Murray, a Washington Democrat, tried to pass a bill Tuesday that would expand in vitro fertilization access for veterans and military service members, but Oklahoma Republican Sen. James Lankford blocked the legislation. 

The Alabama Supreme Court ruling that said embryos are “unborn children” drew bipartisan condemnation and caused lawmakers in several states to introduce bills protecting in vitro fertilization, including Georgia, South Carolina and Kentucky, where debate over assisted reproductive technology goes back decades. 

Jennifer Vollstedt and Ariel Cavanaugh-Okhah have never met, but they are connected by fatal chromosomal abnormalities that affected their wanted pregnancies, and the stress and heartbreak that comes with it.

Two Alabama clinics are restarting IVF services after lawmakers’ hasty response to a Feb. 16 state Supreme Court ruling that declared frozen embryos as “children” paused treatments over legal liability concerns.

Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey signed a bill into law Wednesday night aimed at resuming in vitro fertilization services in the state. Her signature came shortly after lawmakers quickly passed a bill to safeguard IVF access in the wake of the state Supreme Court’s ruling that said embryos are “children,” Alabama Reflector reported.

An East Texas pastor who persuaded officials in New Mexico municipalities to pass anti-abortion ordinances said there's nothing unusual about his actions. “I know some people would probably perceive this as something scandalous, but in reality, this is quite normal,” Mark Lee Dickson told Source New Mexico on Monday. 

A Texas anti-abortion activist and the state’s former solicitor general persuaded New Mexico officials in several municipalities to pass ordinances restricting abortion, records show. 

Anti-abortion groups, dozens of state attorneys general and more than 140 members of Congress are urging the U.S. Supreme Court to restrict access to mifepristone, one of two drugs used to terminate pregnancies.