Abortion
From maternal mortality to abortion rights to birth control, this is a look at the state of reproductive health.
The Supreme Court has overturned Roe v. Wade. Here’s what happens next.
How “pro-life” states are failing new parents and babies.
Americans overwhelmingly support abortion rights, but vary on the specifics.
Since Roe was decided in 1973, the US’s political parties got further apart on abortion.
A landmark study revealed connections between carrying an unwanted pregnancy to term and negative outcomes for children and pregnant people.
Read the decision overturning the landmark 1973 court case that established the constitutional right to an abortion.
With Roe overturned, more experts are talking about advance provision of mifepristone and misoprostol.
Poor health care access and aggressive formula marketing are driving down America’s breastfeeding rates.
President Biden is mulling over what he can do in response to a looming Supreme Court ruling overturning Roe v. Wade.
A conversation with the filmmakers behind The Janes, a new documentary about a harrowing era of illegal abortions.
The real reasons why America is having so much trouble feeding its babies — and how to make sure it never happens again.
Births went up by 1 percent last year, but don’t think of it as a baby boom.
It’s about to become the first state to ban abortions after fertilization.
Foundations love funding reproductive health care, unless it’s for an abortion.
America is enduring its worst baby formula shortage in decades.
We’re discussing protests in neighborhoods — which means we’re not discussing abortion rights.
The outlook is grim in the short term. But there are three possible paths over the longer term.
But political barriers will hobble our ability to deal with the shifting patterns of global population.
But Silicon Valley could.
Justice Alito is a staunch opponent of LGBTQ rights, but he may not have the votes to turn back the clock.
The likely fall of Roe will roll back access for millions. It will also strike at the heart of American democracy.
Limited by the filibuster and conservative members of Congress, lawmakers are zeroing on holding the Senate as one way to defend reproductive rights.
Gutting abortion rights might not boost the GOP in the midterms.
It involved setbacks, political power plays, and some pure luck.
Justice Samuel Alito’s leaked opinion is a full-bore attack on the right to an abortion.
Obtaining an abortion in Oklahoma is about to become all but impossible.
A new law is forcing the state’s last remaining abortion providers to shut down.
Texas prosecutors dropped their nonexistent case, but it will still have a chilling effect.
Republican lawmakers passed a bill subjecting abortion providers to criminal penalties in most cases.
Justice Amy Coney Barrett appears to be quite unfamiliar with her own judicial record, and that of her colleagues.
Breyer’s best work was often the work you never knew about.
Brnovich v. Isaacson could trigger a flood of decisions reinstating long-dead anti-abortion laws.
The pandemic has only accelerated a decline in US birth rates, even as immigration has plummeted.
There are worse things than a hypocritical Court.
Justice Neil Gorsuch’s majority opinion is sneaky, underhanded, and a big blow to abortion rights.
From the dangers of pregnancy to the trauma of adoption, there’s a lot SCOTUS has not acknowledged as Roe v. Wade hangs in the balance.
Republicans have long promised to appoint justices who will overrule Roe. They’ve probably succeeded.
The Court doesn’t have to use the words “Roe v. Wade is overruled.”
Most Supreme Court justices seem to understand that SB 8 is a direct attack on the Constitution.