Abortion
From maternal mortality to abortion rights to birth control, this is a look at the state of reproductive health.


They believe it’s true, of course — but the comparison has wildly offensive implications for black women.


They don’t work, and they allow some shocking human rights violations.


Nine Democratic debates, and nada on reproductive rights.


The classiest comments, the best comments.


The move totally derails a key pro-life strategy.


Women seeking abortions get good news from the FDA and bad (? who even knows) news from Donald Trump.


Depending on who you ask, Trump is either a phony pro-lifer or an unusually honest one.


But he doesn’t think their male partners should also be punished if abortion is made illegal.


It actually forces them to make the procedure more dangerous for patients.


Half a dozen courts have already blocked laws like the one Rick Scott just signed. Rick Scott is the honey badger.


It’s being called “one of the most vicious omnibus anti-abortion bills the United States has ever seen”

I’ve always been pro-choice. But going to medical school made me want to put my beliefs into action.
All scientific evidence available suggests this is a great idea.


The next justice will have a hugely outsize influence on future abortion cases.


Most teen moms don’t finish high school. Better access to birth control can help.


None of the seven official Democratic debates have asked about abortion, but the latest Fox News town hall did.


There’s a lot more to the issue of abortion rights than “for or against?”


A Scalia-less Court hears 2016’s big abortion case; the post–Super Tuesday landscape (is a blighted hellscape for the GOP); how to think about the Apple/FBI battle.


The female justices in particular made a fool out of Texas. Will it matter?


America has experienced its sharpest, fastest decline in unplanned births on record.


The Court has chipped away at Roe for 43 years. The Texas case will test how much of it is left.


“You don’t seem to know anything specifically about abortion, really at all.”


That’s Trans-Pacific Partnership, in case you were wondering.


A great primer on states’ new laws.


Trump said that Planned Parenthood does “wonderful things” for women’s health, which is more than most Republicans will say.


The Court will rule on a controversial Texas law that clinics say has forced many of them to shutter.


Ohio is trying a new method of cutting Planned Parenthood’s funding — one that some officials fear could have devastating unintended consequences for public health.


Without Planned Parenthood, prescriptions for the most effective birth controls dropped by a third.


Even if you’re not pregnant, the agency argues it’s too big a risk.


But numerous civil charges are still pending.



“The process just seemed so cruel.”

The loneliness of being a pro-choice woman mourning the loss of a pregnancy.


A new dustup over who is “the establishment” shows the divide between Clinton and Sanders on identity politics.


A new bill in Missouri called the All Lives Matter Act would define a fetus or embryo as a “person” from the moment of conception.


Women who have had abortions are telling their stories to fight stigma and defend reproductive rights in the biggest Supreme Court abortion case in decades.


Planned Parenthood isn’t just a provider of abortion — it’s the main provider of abortions in America, and it benefits from public funds.


They all take effect today.


These were some of the major trends in anti-abortion legislation in 2015.


TV plot lines about abortion tend to focus on white, childless teenagers. That’s not the reality.