How major abortion laws compare, state by state
Access to abortion in the U.S. depends on where you live. Increasingly, the South and Midwest are becoming complete abortion deserts.
‘It’s tied to 666’: Abortion disinformation threatens 20 years of progress in Ethiopia
Abortion rights saved thousands of women’s lives. Now, disinformation is putting them back at risk.
What you need to know about the state of abortion in the US today
From total bans in Louisiana and Florida to new “shield laws” in coastal states, abortion access in America now depends on where you live.
This Election, It’s Women’s Choice
Polls showing that inflation will be the dominant issue in the upcoming election miss the potency of women’s anger over abortion—and their massive influence within the electorate.
The Carolina Abortion Fund: A lifeline for Southern women, struggles to meet demand amid state bans
Since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, pregnant people from Southern states that have banned abortion have flooded North Carolina clinics, overwhelming a nonprofit that helps pay for abortion and related expenses.
“Cornered on all sides”
25 years after El Salvador fully outlawed abortion, resulting in more than 50 women being imprisoned, a Latin American human rights court might finally overturn the ban.
From abortion to wellness: an “indie” clinic pivots to survive in the post-Roe landscape
After the U.S. Supreme Court ended the federal protection of abortion, clinics across the Southeast and Midwest closed this summer. But Feminist Women’s Health Center, an independent abortion clinic with a long history in Atlanta,…
How a network of college students is preparing for post-Roe campuses
One drop-off at a time, college students are arming themselves with preventive emergency contraception — which could soon be one of the last legal chances to stop a pregnancy.
The draft abortion ruling that shook the states
Five things to help make sense of what it means.
Pregnant Ukrainian refugees struggle to get abortion care
“I can’t keep this baby, it reminds me all the time of what I’ve been through,” said one who called a hotline in Poland.
Where democracy falters, so do reproductive rights
Where populist authoritarianism is on the rise, anti-abortion politics aren’t far behind.
The South’s abortion battle has a new front: telemedicine
A new bill making its way through the Georgia statehouse would criminalize access to abortion pills by telemedicine — a common, safe, easy way to end early pregnancies that the federal government first allowed last…
It’s not just Texas and Mississippi: Abortion access is in jeopardy across the Deep South
As all eyes turn to the landmark case before the Supreme Court, advocates in the South say they’ve been sounding the alarm on access for years.
Poland’s abortion rights protests lead to a louder call for gender equity
Women across Poland have been at the heart of a protest movement railing against a ruling that would ban most abortions — the country’s largest protests since the end of Communism 30 years ago. Now…
‘We know it’s the work of quack doctors’: Pandemic fans the flames of backstreet abortions in Kenya
Anecdotal reports suggest teenage pregnancies are soaring in Kenya, resulting in unsafe late-term terminations and abandoned babies.
Could the coronavirus make telemedicine abortion the new normal?
During the coronavirus pandemic, telemedicine abortion has become a way of bringing providers directly into patients’ homes, bypassing clinics altogether. Could this become the new normal?
Worried About Abortion Laws? Catholic Hospital Mergers Also Seen as Threat to Women’s Health Care
Rules written by Catholic bishops ban procedures deemed “immoral” by the church, like abortion, contraception, in-vitro fertilization and tubal ligation.
Wisconsin’s Catholic Hospitals Limit Reproductive Procedures
In reproductive care, critics argue, Catholic ethics can trump medical best practice and patients can be denied the care they desire or need.