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


The Court still won’t stop Texas from banning abortions, but it wants to bring this saga to a final resolution quickly.


The Biden administration’s last-ditch bid to restore abortion rights in Texas, explained.


For decades, dramatized plot lines about unwanted and unexpected pregnancies helped create our real-world abortion discourse.


A week of uncertainty didn’t end up changing much for SB 8.


The justices say they are nonpartisan. Cameron v. EMW Women’s Surgical Center puts that to the test.

Abortion, guns, regulation — conservatives are poised for a big year.

A new law bans nearly all abortions in the state. Here’s what that looks like.

Labels like “nonessential” are getting in the way of urgent treatments and surgeries. There’s a better way.


A Court that used to prize careful deliberation now seems to care more about making big change quickly.

The Women’s Health Protection Act, explained.


The Court dealt a big blow to Roe v. Wade — and the rule of law.


The loss of abortion rights may not even be the most troubling aspect of the Supreme Court’s inaction over the law.


Texas’s so-called heartbeat law bans nearly all abortions.


For decades, abortion opponents urged the Court to lie about abortion restrictions. They don’t need to anymore.


The experience is incredibly common. It’s time to lift the stigma.


Much — but not all — of Justice Ginsburg’s women’s rights legacy is probably safe.


It used to be taboo to talk about. That’s starting to change.


The Court’s new median justice really doesn’t care about precedent.


The case is the biggest threat to abortion rights to arise since Amy Coney Barrett joined the Court.


The Court has been surprisingly hesitant to weigh in on abortion. But a pending case is likely to force its hand.


The legal arguments in Kelley v. Becerra aren’t exactly good arguments, but five justices have signaled that they agree with them.


The Court’s brief order in Cameron v. EMW Women’s Surgical Center suggests it will take an incremental approach to dismantling abortion rights.


The Supreme Court is poised to give itself a veto power over much of the Biden administration’s authority.


The president intends to reverse some of Trump’s biggest restrictions.


The Court’s decision may be the beginning of the end of Roe v. Wade.


The Court’s new majority has its first chance to take a shot at Roe v. Wade.


And he doesn’t need Congress.


It’s hard not to read the Court’s order as a ploy to delay an abortion showdown until after the election.

The federal appellate judge is a favorite of the religious right.

The Affordable Care Act made birth control more accessible than ever. Then came Trump.


Pauline Binam has come forward after a whistleblower complaint on hysterectomies of immigrant detainees in Georgia.


The Trump administration could force abortion patients to have unnecessary surgeries.


The Supreme Court has rejected some of the GOP’s sloppiest and most presumptuous arguments. It won’t anymore if Republicans grow their majority.


A decision that was supposed to be limited to birth control threatens one of the core elements of the Affordable Care Act.


The Supreme Court just struck down an anti-abortion law. Here’s why access is still at risk.


Roberts didn’t save abortion rights, he told future litigants how to bury them.


Liberals have had a surprisingly hopeful Supreme Court term so far, but they may not be celebrating soon.


Abortion, LGBTQ rights, DACA, and more are potentially on the chopping block at the Supreme Court.


Planned Parenthood says it’s politically motivated.


The Court’s sympathy for religious conservatives is in tension with its desire to shrink the administrative state.