Abortion
From maternal mortality to abortion rights to birth control, this is a look at the state of reproductive health.
A leaked draft of House Republicans’ plan to repeal the Affordable Care Act has major repercussions for women’s health.
Anti-abortion protests to “defund” Planned Parenthood have sparked huge counterprotests to “defend” it.
The new law is part of the latest anti-abortion trend: banning the safest medical procedures for performing it.
An emphasis on embryos in the womb is nothing more than that: a focusing of our attention and energy. It is not a denial of other urgent social causes.
How confirming Trump’s Supreme Court nominee would, and wouldn’t, affect legal abortion rights.
He’s never ruled on a case hinging on the constitutionality of abortion restriction.
Gov. Andrew Cuomo wants to write Roe v. Wade into the state’s constitution. It’s more than a symbolic gesture.
This is why Pence will be the first sitting vice president to speak at the March for Life
As a member of Congress, Pence sponsored the first bill to defund Planned Parenthood in 2007 — and did so repeatedly through 2011, when it finally passed the House.
Thousands of women will die across the world, and millions will lose access to both safe abortion and birth control.
Data from 2,500 doctors suggests the new president caused an IUD boom.
It permanently denies millions of women the ability to get health insurance coverage for abortion.
The US already bans foreign aid from covering abortion using the Helms Amendment. The global gag rule goes a lot further.
Will other liberal states follow?
Among other moves, Republicans may use religious-freedom laws to curtail LGBTQ rights
Use of contraception, especially the most effective methods like IUDs and implants, did much more to reduce abortion rates than restrictive laws.
Most Americans support Planned Parenthood. Defunding it could backfire on Republicans politically. Why do they keep trying anyway?
If a woman can be charged with attempted murder for trying to give herself an abortion, what stops police from investigating miscarriages?
A French pharmaceutical company will apply for FDA approval to make a progestin contraceptive pill available over the counter in the US. It’s about time.
Who is excited to purchase tons and tons of ibuprofen?!
He also vetoed a six-week ban — but the 20-week ban is a bigger threat to Roe v. Wade and reproductive rights.
Even with Trump, laws like this have no chance until a liberal Supreme Court justice retires or dies.
It’s a tragic farce that has terrified scientists and stymied important medical research.
Three major court challenges to state abortion laws have been launched, with more still to come.
Someone on the internet actually filmed the process of making a Victorian-era condom out of sheep intestine.
But this doesn’t change the church’s official stance that abortion is a “grave sin.”
As Trump vows to repeal Roe v. Wade, the CW shows us exactly why choice matters.
But the issue of same-sex marriage, he said, is “settled.”
The landmark abortion-rights case probably, maybe, won’t be overturned in the next four years. In the longer term, it’s complicated.
All he needs to do is tweak a few words in an Obama-era regulation.
The reporting on this new male birth control is terrible.
Here are the reasons women seek late-term abortions, and why a healthy fetus would never be terminated at term.
The abortion wars in America are a battle between fantasy and reality.
And it led to a fascinating, revealing exchange between Trump and Clinton.
Trump hugely mischaracterized Clinton’s position on abortion.
The Kansas solicitor general cited the awful Dred Scott decision to argue for his state’s anti-abortion law.
On Planned Parenthood 100th anniversary, the birth control pioneer’s grandson discusses her legacy.
The law could have jailed women for miscarriages. It’s a remarkable, sudden reversal.
Mike Pence denied it at the VP debate. He’s wrong.