abortion access

Maternal mortality rates for American women rose again in 2021, hitting Black women particularly hard, according to newly released data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). There were 32.9 deaths for every…

Almost two-thirds of Americans believe abortion should be legal in most or all cases, according to a new poll taken about eight months after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade.  The survey, released Thursday from the nonpartisan…

Vice President Kamala Harris warned Friday that a looming Texas court decision threatening access to abortion pills is an attack on a “fundamental freedom” of access to health care. Speaking to abortion rights advocates, Harris said…

The Pentagon will allow service members up to three weeks of leave to travel for abortions and other non-covered reproductive health care, according to a slate of new policies announced on Thursday. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin…

Topline A ruling in a court case trying to ban abortion pills could have a dramatic effect in curbing abortion access nationwide—even after the Supreme Court already overturned Roe v. Wade—as new data from pro-abortion rights group NARAL…

Twenty Republican state attorneys general sent a letter to U.S-based pharmacy chains Walgreens and CVS Pharmacy on Wednesday, telling both companies their plans to distribute abortion pills through the mail are “both unsafe and illegal.”…

The New York legislature on Tuesday passed an amendment to the state constitution that would enshrine abortion rights and other protections in the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to overturn the federal right to abortion in Roe…

Senate Democrats on Tuesday marked what would have been the 50th anniversary of the landmark Roe v. Wade Supreme Court ruling by declaring they will not back down against Republican efforts to restrict or limit access to abortions. A…

Have you gotten a glimpse of the green comet making its way near us yet? Some lucky stargazers may be able to witness the icy rock over the course of this month as it closes in on our solar system for the first time in more than 10,000…

As House Republicans are set to consider a number of bills that would limit abortion access, GOP Rep. Nancy Mace (S.C.) says her party is “tone-deaf” on the issue, blasting their approach. “We have been tone-deaf on this issue since…