Abortion

Since abortion became almost entirely illegal in Texas in 2021, the state has seen a significant rise in the number of women who die in pregnancy or after giving birth. A new bill aims to change that.

Most Americans balk at the idea of charging women who get abortions with homicide, but post-Roe, militant anti-abortion activists are finding state lawmakers are increasingly open to it.

Two dozen states allow citizens to propose ballot measures. But Republican lawmakers in many of those states are now adding hurdles to those efforts, saying they want to combat fraud.

The Trump administration on Monday asked a judge to toss out a lawsuit from three GOP-led states seeking to cut off telehealth access to abortion medication mifepristone.

New Justice Department leaders say past enforcement of the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act is "the prototypical example" of what they call "the weaponization of law enforcement."

The Mexico City Policy cuts off U.S. aid to health groups in other countries that offer abortion services or counseling. As in 2021, Trump has reinstated this policy, which was deactivated by Biden.

The most "relevant" results that come up in a search of "abortion" on HHS.gov, the website for the federal Department of Health and Human Services, are several years old, from the first Trump administration.

Gov. Josh Stein announced an executive order Thursday to safeguard women’s reproductive freedom and privacy.

Donald Trump will be sworn in as the 47th president of the United States in on Monday. He’s promised a lot will happen on day one — such as closing the border and settling the Russia-Ukraine war. But for some, Jan. 20 has a more personal meaning: it’s their deadline for reproductive health care, even sterilization, because they’re worried Trump could limit access to abortion and birth control.

The state cut off funding to Planned Parenthood because it provided non-abortion services to Medicaid patients.