Reproductive Rights Today

Less than a month after the Arizona Supreme Court upheld a 19th-century abortion ban, both chambers of the state’s legislature have voted to repeal the law. 

Florida and North Carolina were considered abortion access points in the Southeast after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in June 2022. 

Since the U.S. Supreme Court overturned the federal right to abortion nearly two years ago, more than a dozen state legislatures have enacted laws that protect abortion providers and patients from out-of-state investigations.    

The Starts With Us civic experiment on abortion began with a hypothesis that was reflected in the session’s first working title: Abortion Access & Limits. 

For the 14 abortion-rights opponents and supporters recently recruited to find consensus on abortion and family well-being, their first major agreement was that Wisconsin has some of the best cheese in the nation.

U.S. Supreme Court justices spent two hours Wednesday debating whether a federal law about emergency treatment encompasses abortion care even in states with strict abortion bans, with no clear indication of how they may ultimately rule.

A doctor in Idaho recently saw a pregnant patient whose water broke at 15 weeks of pregnancy — something that normally happens at 38 weeks or later. 

Since the U.S. Supreme Court decided in January to consider a case about whether a federal law regarding emergency medical treatment supersedes an abortion ban in Idaho, air transports out of state for pregnancy complications at one of the state’s largest hospitals have increased from one in all of 2023 to six in the past four months. 

Following a legislative session with no action taken to clarify or amend Idaho’s near-total abortion ban, some residents have formed a political group called Idahoans United for Women and Families to explore options for a possible 2026 ballot initiative that would restore and protect access to reproductive care statewide, including abortion.

More young Americans sought sterilization procedures after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade — with twice as many women as men seeking them, according to a study published this month in JAMA Health Forum. 

Rules on how employers can comply with a federal law that provides protections for pregnant workers are set to take effect in roughly two months. 

Dr. Mona Hanna-Attisha, a pediatrician who helped uncover the Flint water crisis, is leading a program that provides expecting mothers in the city with $1,500 mid-pregnancy and $500 per month postpartum until the baby turns 1, Michigan Advance reports. “When you’re born into and when you grow up in poverty, it really alters your entire life course. So for a long time, I had wished for the antidote — the prescription — to prescribe away poverty, and that’s how this idea came together,” Hanna-Attisha said.