Abortion
From maternal mortality to abortion rights to birth control, this is a look at the state of reproductive health.
America has an infant mortality problem. South Carolina has a radical idea to fight it.
The C-section rate has almost doubled in less than a generation.
Her most influential abortion decision may contain the seeds of Roe v. Wade’s destruction.
“I come to this as a doctor who sees what’s at stake,” says Dr. Leana Wen, who will become president of the organization in November.
It’s not clear whether he actually thinks birth control causes abortion. Here’s what is clear.
The landmark abortion decision could be overturned within a year.
The Supreme Court nominee has called Roe “settled law.” Leaked documents show that’s meaningless.
“I understand the importance of the precedent set forth in Roe v. Wade,” he testified. That says nothing about how he’d rule.
“The impact of overturning Roe is much broader than a woman’s right to choose,” the senator said.
But it comes with some big caveats.
A new Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll has support among all voters at 71 percent.
What we know — and what we don’t know — about John Roberts’s position on abortion.
Conservative justices rule that California law likely violates the centers’ constitutional rights.
Only 4 percent of women give birth on their due date. These researchers want to fix that.
Friday’s vote paves the way for legal abortion in the overwhelmingly Catholic country.
We’re voting to overturn Ireland’s restrictive abortion ban.
New rules could leave low-income women without access to affordable birth control.
Trump is reportedly weighing a rule that would ban some doctors from even talking about abortion.
Policies at a charter school network allegedly force some girls to bleed through their pants. The scandal points to a bigger problem.
The Trump administration is trying to keep undocumented immigrant teenagers from getting abortions.
Atlantic writer Kevin Williamson may have been fired for suggesting the death penalty for abortion, but he’s not alone.
The law has been temporarily blocked by the courts.
The women’s health group is a sticking point in spending negotiations.
Democrats fear anti-abortion advocates are writing Trump’s health care policy — and the results could harm patients nationwide.
The administration’s mission to roll back women’s health care and family planning services, explained.
The confusing response she got was part of a bigger pattern in the Trump administration.
California doctors came together and brought the state maternal death rate way down.
A new Massachusetts law will protect residents’ contraceptive access, no matter what the federal government does.
A robotic pelvis, a federal policy, and a huge shift in birth control access.
There’s a three-hour window for taking birth control on time. And those “placebo” pills at the end of a pack? They actually have real ingredients.
Trump’s latest birth control rollbacks seem like a victory for the religious right. But why?
Why are we still fighting about a medication millions of Americans take every day?
“You’ve got to be willing to accept that there’s a trade-off here.” —Craig Garthwaite
This program brought down the teen pregnancy and abortion rates all across the state of Colorado. Now it’s under attack.
Planned Parenthood would survive — but a lot of women would lose access to birth control.
A new poll on public attitudes toward birth control finds that Americans are pretty progressive about it.
Texas is about to ban second-trimester abortions, which would put women’s health at risk.
HHS Secretary Tom Price wanted to see a list of counties where Planned Parenthood is the only option for women who need subsidized birth control. Here’s that list.
It would keep poor women on Medicaid from getting health care at Planned Parenthood, and cut off affordable abortion coverage for many privately insured women.