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| May 25, 2026 | License to deliver: Some midwives break the law to assist with home births | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
By Lisa Rab, KFF Health News
GWINNETT COUNTY, Ga. — In a midwife’s suburban Atlanta home with a playground and chicken coop outside, Madie Collins lay on an examination table while the midwife meas... |
| Feb 16, 2026 | She was denied a legal abortion and sent to prison over an illegal one. Now she tells her story | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
By JACOB ZIMBA and GERALD IMRAY
LUSAKA, Zambia (AP) — She says she was let down at every step. By a partner who abandoned her when she was pregnant. By a health service that denied her a legal abor... |
| Jan 13, 2026 | Louisiana seeks California doctor’s extradition, testing the limits of shield laws | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
By SARA CLINE
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Louisiana pushed Tuesday to extradite a California doctor accused of mailing abortion pills, setting up a likely test of laws designed to protect telehealth pr... |
| Dec 31, 2025 | Appeals court says Medicaid funding cuts for Planned Parenthood can stand while lawsuit proceeds | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
By HOLLY RAMER, Associated Press
CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — The Trump administration can continue to withhold Medicaid funding from Planned Parenthood and other health centers that provide abortions whil... |
| Nov 14, 2025 | 41-year-old took a ‘sabbatical’ in Tanzania 5 years ago—now she lives in South Africa and never plans to return to the U.S. | This story is part of CNBC Make It’s Millennial Money series, which details how people around the world earn, spend and save their money.
By 2020, Ashley Cleveland needed a break.
In July of that year, the now 41-year-old was laid off from ... |
| Oct 30, 2025 | Maine network ends primary care after losing Medicaid due to Trump defunding Planned Parenthood | By PATRICK WHITTLE
PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — A network of medical clinics that serves low-income residents in Maine said it will shut down its primary care operations on Friday because of Trump administration cuts to abortion providers. Relate... |
| Aug 5, 2025 | A brain-dead pregnant woman was kept alive in Georgia. It’s unclear if state law required it | She said doctors declared Smith brain-dead and put her on life support without consulting her.
“And I’m not saying that we would have chose to terminate her pregnancy,” Newkirk said, “but what I’m saying is, we should have had a choice.”
Em... |
| Jul 16, 2025 | Congress targeted Planned Parenthood for defunding, but also caught a Maine health care provider | Flyers and documents are posted on a patient bulletin board in an examination room at the Maine Family Planning healthcare facility, July 15, 2025, in Thomaston, Maine. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)
Vanessa Shields-Haas, a nurse practitioner, po... |
| Jun 6, 2025 | The Evolving Landscape of Emergency Abortion Care in America | The landscape of emergency abortion care in the United States is shifting like sand beneath our feet. Recent policy changes and legal battles have left many women in precarious situations, caught between state laws and federal mandates. The... |
| Jun 4, 2025 | Texas hospital that discharged woman with doomed pregnancy violated the law, a federal inquiry finds | Uncertainty regarding emergency abortion access
Women around the country have been denied emergency abortions for their life-threatening pregnancies after states swiftly enacted abortion restrictions in response to a 2022 ruling from the U.... |
| Jan 24, 2025 | North Dakota’s overturned abortion ban won’t be in effect during appeal, court rules | State District Judge Bruce Romanick had earlier denied such a request, saying: “It would be non-sensical for this Court to keep a law it has found to be unconstitutional in effect pending appeal.”
The Center for Reproductive Rights, which r... |
| Dec 23, 2024 | Bridging the Gap: The Urgent Need for Specialized Care in Pregnancy-Related Nausea | Pregnancy is often painted as a beautiful journey. Yet, for many women, it’s a battleground. Morning sickness, a term that belies its severity, can morph into a relentless foe. Severe nausea and vomiting in pregnancy (NVP) and hyperemesis g... |
| Dec 22, 2024 | Commentary | Opinion: Anne Whitesell: Colorado now has liberal abortion laws, but measures to restrict access have a long history | By Anne Whitesell
With the passage of Amendment 79 in November 2024, Colorado voters enshrined the right to abortion in the state constitution. The amendment solidifies the state’s status as one of the most liberal in the country on the iss... |
| Nov 12, 2024 | Women suing over Idaho’s abortion ban describe dangerous pregnancies, becoming ‘medical refugees’ | Adkins and her husband decided to seek an abortion, and learned they would have to go out of state to get one after another ultrasound showed the fetus still had a heartbeat.
“No parent wants to wish that when they look at an ultrasound the... |
| Jul 9, 2024 | Kansas Supreme Court Upholds Abortion Access Rights, Setting a Precedent for Reproductive Freedom | In a landmark decision, the Kansas Supreme Court recently struck down two anti-abortion laws, bolstering the state's commitment to protecting abortion access. The rulings, issued in two separate cases, underscore the court's stance that the... |
| Jul 5, 2024 | Kansas' top court rejects 2 anti-abortion laws, bolstering state right to abortion access | Kansas' highest court on Friday struck down state laws regulating abortion providers more strictly than other health care professionals and banning a common second-trimester procedure, reaffirming its stance that the state constitution prot... |
| Jun 24, 2024 | Dobbs – A Two Year Retrospective | Also authored by CDT Intern Ebie Quinn
I. Introduction
Two years ago, the Supreme Court decided Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, reversing prior court precedent under Roe v. Wade and its progeny that guaranteed constitutional p... |
| Jun 14, 2024 | Alabama group continues fight to help women obtain reproductive care | Jenice Fountain could not believe what she was hearing.
Was that Steve Marshall, the attorney general of Alabama, on talk radio, threatening to go after her tiny organization, which is dedicated to supporting pregnant Alabamians seeking leg... |
| Jun 8, 2024 | National Politics | Wins at the ballot box for abortion rights still mean court battles for access | The delay had a purpose, according to Elisabeth Smith, state policy and advocacy director at the Center for Reproductive Rights, which filed the lawsuit: It’s preferable to change laws through the legislature than through litigation because... |
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| Apr 30, 2024 | Health | What Florida’s new 6-week abortion ban means for the South, and traveling patients | By Christopher O’Donnell, Tampa Bay Times and KFF Health News
Monica Kelly was thrilled to learn she was expecting her second child.
The Tennessee mother was around 13 weeks pregnant when, according to a lawsuit filed against the state of T... |
| Mar 8, 2024 | A third of Bumble’s Texas workforce moved after state passed restrictive ‘Heartbeat Act’ abortion bill | Bumble has lost a third of its Texas workforce in the months since the state passed the controversial abortion SB 8 (Senate Bill 8), also known as the Texas Heartbeat Act, over a year ago. This new data point was shared by Bumble’s Interim ... |
| Feb 29, 2024 | How does IVF work? The medicine behind in vitro fertilization, explained by an expert | Heidi Collins Fantasia is an associate professor of nursing at University of Massachusetts, Lowell.
Since the overturning of Roe v. Wade in June 2022 ended the federal right to abortion, legislative attention has extended to many other aspe... |
| Feb 6, 2024 | Abortion rights movement needs more Latina voices, advocates say | Abortion advocates say Latinas and other women of color are disproportionately affected by bans and restrictions, but when it comes to lawsuits and news coverage, their stories are less likely to get attention.
Why it matters: The reality u... |
| Feb 2, 2024 | Texas Medical Board under pressure to define emergency exception to abortion ban | Amid ongoing uncertainty about when abortions are permissible in Texas, the state’s medical board is under growing pressure to issue guidance on what type of emergency qualifies for an exemption from the state’s abortion ban.
Two high-profi... |
| Jan 14, 2024 | Texas mother Kate Cox on the outcome of her legal fight for an abortion: "It was crushing" | Lifelong Texans Kate and Justin Cox were already parents to a young girl and boy when they found out last August that Kate was pregnant again. "We have the two children that we absolutely adore, and yeah, the thought of having a third ... |
| Jan 6, 2024 | It Takes a Village: New Orleans group partners with others to get out the vote | At a recent listening session, Ashley Shelton, founder and executive director of the New Orleans-based nonprofit Power Coalition for Equity and Justice, learned something about why Louisiana’s Black vote in November’s statewide general elec... |
| Nov 29, 2023 | Texas abortion case puts doctors’ agency in treating pregnancy complications in the spotlight | The Texas Supreme Court on Tuesday heard a case that could end up deciding whether abortion in the state should be protected under its constitution when it’s provided for medical reasons. Also at stake is the issue of how much agency doctor... |
| Aug 4, 2023 | Texas judge grants abortion exemption to women with pregnancy complications | A judge in Texas ruled late Friday that women who experience pregnancy complications are exempt from the state's abortion bans after more than a dozen women and two doctors had sued to clarify the laws.
"Defendants are temporarily enjo... |
| Jul 20, 2023 | Report: Texas' strict abortion ban linked to over 10% spike in infant deaths | Nearly two years after Texas' six-week abortion ban went into effect, the state's infant mortalities spiked by over 10% in 2022, according to preliminary data obtained by CNN.
Why it matters: Texas' ban, which was the strictest in the U.S. ... |
| Jul 6, 2023 | Strengthening the Response to Conflict-Related Sexual Violence | Why is the UN Security Council talking about sexual violence, and will it be discussing health care for survivors?
On 6 July, the UN Secretary-General issued his annual report on sexual violence in conflict, which identifies global and coun... |
| May 5, 2023 | Supreme Court’s abortion ruling disproportionately affects Black people with low incomes in the Deep South | Even before Alauni took an at-home pregnancy test just four weeks after a single instance of unplanned sexual activity, she knew it would be positive.
The 24-year-old Texas college student – a single, working mother of three children under ... |
| Apr 1, 2023 | The 5 US states where it is hardest to get an abortion | Anit-abortion advocates celebrate with a bottle of champagne outside the US Supreme Court on June 24, 2022. This was the day after Roe v. Wade was overturned. Steve Helber/AP Photo
30% of women in the USA do not have access to abortion care... |
| Mar 16, 2023 | North Dakota Supreme Court keeps in place block on state's abortion ban | Washington — The North Dakota Supreme Court on Thursday kept in place a lower court order blocking enforcement of the state's trigger law banning abortion while a legal challenge continues, finding the measure likely violated the North Dako... |
| Feb 16, 2023 | Virginia blocks a bill that would have stopped police from viewing period app data, raising fears it could be used to prosecute abortions | Flo's period-tracking app. Flo Health
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A Virginia bill that would have prohibited police search warrants on menstrual cycle data was shelved.
Gov. Glenn Youngkin announced his opposition to the bill this week, resulting in it bein... |
| Feb 12, 2023 | Contextualizing the Nigerian Government’s Forced Abortion Program | Editor’s Note: Sexual violence in war takes many forms. In Nigeria, the government is forcing women impregnated by Boko Haram to have abortions, which the University of Denver’s Hilary Matfess and Georgetown’s Robert Nagel argue is unpreced... |
| Nov 24, 2022 | Pregnant students in Tanzania could stay in school | Reproductive health researcher Anthony Ajayi is optimistic that the recent ruling will compel more African countries to keep pregnant adolescents in school. He unpacks the details of the complaint and what Tanzania has been ordered to do. P... |
| Oct 26, 2022 | ‘The Cavalry Is You’: Planned Parenthood CEO Urges Everyone To Act For Reproductive Rights | Alexis McGill Johnson speaks on restoring reproductive rights at the 2022 MAKERS Conference (Photo ... [+] by Vivien Killilea/Getty Images for The MAKERS Conference)Getty Images for The MAKERS Conference |
| Jun 30, 2022 | Health
Health | CU Boulder study: Nationwide abortion ban would increase maternal death rate by 24% | Just days after the Supreme Court ruled on Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health and overturned Roe v. Wade, new research from CU Boulder‘s Institute of Behavioral Science has shown that a national abortion ban would cause a 24% overall increase ... |
| Jun 29, 2022 | What people are Googling in states where abortion is now illegal | When the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade last Friday, many Americans were upset and confused — and they turned to the internet for answers.
The 6-3 decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health immediately made abortion illegal in eight ... |
| Jun 27, 2022 | Abortions can resume in Louisiana after state court temporarily blocks "trigger" bans | Washington — A state court in Louisiana on Monday blocked enforcement of the state's "trigger" bans on abortion in the wake of the Supreme Court's blockbuster decision overturning Roe v. Wade, allowing the procedure to resume in t... |
| Jun 24, 2022 | With Roe v. Wade overturned, which states would restrict or protect abortion rights? | Washington — The bombshell decision by the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn its landmark 1973 Roe v. Wade ruling on abortion rights has upended 50 years of precedent and handed state lawmakers across the country the power to restrict or ban a... |
| May 17, 2022 | The many arguments for, and against, abortion rights | Earlier this month, a leaked Supreme Court draft opinion sent shockwaves across the United States when it revealed that the nation’s highest court planned to overturn Roe v Wade, a landmark judgment that protects a pregnant woman’s liberty ... |
| May 11, 2022 | To See the Future of Roe, Look to the States | There are some things we don’t know about the leaked Supreme Court opinion in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, which indicated the court is ready to overturn Roe v. Wade, the case that recognized a federal constitutional right ... |
| May 3, 2022 | Which states would restrict or protect abortion rights if Roe v. Wade is struck down? | Washington — A bombshell draft opinion indicating the Supreme Court may strike down the landmark 1973 Roe v. Wade decision has rattled Washington and the nation, prompting Democrats and abortion rights supporters to sound the alarm about th... |
| Feb 7, 2022 | Texas Supreme Court blocks order that resumed abortions | The Texas Supreme Court has blocked a lower court order that had allowed clinics in the state to continue performing abortions even after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned its landmark 1973 ruling that confirmed a constitutional right to ab... |
| Nov 28, 2021 | Thankful Together: Finding Gratitude On The Inclusion Journey | "Gratitude turns what we have into enough and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos into order, confusion into clarity...it makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow." —Melody Beatti... |
| Nov 28, 2021 | Texan women make 1,000-mile trips to access abortion care, while Mississippi targets Roe v. Wade in the Supreme Court | Pro-choice demonstrators rallying outside the Supreme Court on November 1 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Drew Angerer/Getty Images)
Abortion providers told Insider how women and girls had to travel overnight to access abortion care.
Patients ... |
| Sep 23, 2021 | Abortion providers ask US top court to review Texas abortion ban | Abortion providers in Texas have asked the United States Supreme Court to urgently intervene in their case challenging a law that imposed a ban on abortions after six weeks of pregnancy – effectively outlawing the procedure in the state.
In... |
| Sep 2, 2021 | Supreme Court refuses to block Texas law that bans most abortions | Chief Justice John Roberts and the court’s three Democratic appointees, Justices Stephen Breyer, Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan, dissented.
The Texas law, which went into effect Wednesday, bars most abortions after six weeks of pregnancy a... |
| Sep 1, 2021 | Texas abortion ban becomes law; U.S. Supreme Court opts not to intervene, for now | (The Center Square) – A bill that bans abortion in the state of Texas at about six weeks after conception went into effect on Wednesday.
The new law requires doctors to first determine if a heartbeat can be detected before attempting to per... |
| Aug 31, 2021 | Supreme Court is asked to block restrictive Texas abortion law, set to take effect Wednesday | Abortion-rights advocates asked the Supreme Court to temporarily block the enforcement of a new Texas law that would ban most abortions after as early as six weeks of pregnancy.
Their emergency appeal for an injunction was directed to conse... |
| Apr 13, 2021 | The Biden administration has lifted the ban on getting the abortion pill by mail | Demonstrators hold banners in an abortion rights rally outside of the Supreme Court as the justices hear oral arguments in the June Medical Services v. Russo case on March 4, 2020 in Washington, DC. Sarah Silbiger/Getty Images
In January, S... |
| Feb 8, 2021 | What Is The Global Gag Rule & How Does It Affect Abortion Access Around The World? | It's been reported that President Joe Biden will reject the global gag rule.getty |
| Dec 12, 2020 | What underground abortions could look like if Roe v. Wade is overturned | A demonstrator holds up an abortion flag outside of the U.S. Supreme Court as justices hear a major abortion case on the legality of a Republican-backed Louisiana law that imposes restrictions on abortion doctors, on Capitol Hill in Washing... |
| Dec 9, 2020 | How the states with the best access to abortion services compare to the worst | Pro-choice activists hold signs alongside anti-abortion activists participating in the ‘March for Life,’ an annual event to mark the anniversary of the 1973 Supreme Court case Roe v. Wade, which legalised abortion in the US, outside the US ... |
| Oct 22, 2020 | The Tech Expanding Birth Control And Abortion Access Amid The Pandemic | Empty strip of birth control pills on pink backgroundgetty |
| Feb 20, 2019 | Conservative Lawmakers Are Preparing for a Future Without Roe v. Wade | Conservative legislators are ramping up efforts to undermine abortion rights on the state level in anticipation of a near future without Roe v. Wade.
Over the last week, multiple states have introduced or passed so-called "trigger laws... |
| Nov 30, 2018 | Michigan's Senate Just Launched the Latest Attack on Telemedicine Abortion | Michigan lawmakers are exacting an attack on telemedicine abortion in the state, passing legislation in the Senate on Thursday that would amount to a blanket ban on doctors prescribing abortion medication remotely.
The bill would require pa... |
| Aug 10, 2018 | We Are Already Closer to the End of Legal Abortion Than We Think | During a 2016 campaign stop, Mike Pence promised voters that Roe v. Wade would be “consigned to the ash heap of history” should Donald Trump be elected President. This February, Pence doubled-down on this vision when he announced his goal t... |
| Aug 8, 2018 | People Who Want Home Births Have to Jump Through All Kinds of Hoops | While no state in the US has laws or regulations that restrict where or how a person gives birth, it turns out that some states' midwifery regulations end up limiting birth options for families. And, in the familiar “keeping women safe” rhe... |
| Jun 20, 2018 | More and More Doctors Are Denying Abortions Based on Religious Beliefs | In 2012, a woman in Spain who was seven months pregnant learned that her baby would not survive outside the womb because of a fetal congenital anomaly. Paula (a pseudonym) sought an abortion at a nearby hospital, but the doctor refused for ... |
| Jan 11, 2018 | Black mothers are dying: the toll of racism on maternal health | The recent, high-profile death of Erica Garner, a 27-year-old African-American mother of two — one of them a 4-month-old infant — is a tragic example of how racism and access to health care for black mothers is a national crisis.
Not long a... |
| Dec 14, 2017 | The Volunteers Helping Women Get Abortions Against All Odds | When Emily, a 41-year-old from Louisville, Kentucky, found out she was pregnant earlier this year, she decided to get an abortion. (Her name has been changed because she fears retribution at work if her colleagues found out.) Confident in h... |
| Dec 13, 2017 | Court to Decide If Woman Imprisoned After Stillbirth Will Go Free | When Teodora Vásquez was 24 years old, she was pregnant with her second child. One day during her ninth month, she experienced some piercing pain, according to The Guardian. She called emergency services for help, but lost consciousness due... |
| Dec 8, 2016 | What happens if Trump gets Roe v. Wade overturned? Look to Mike Pence's Indiana | When Anna found out she was pregnant in October, she knew she could not have another child. Her son was still a baby and she was struggling to find employment as a 30-year-old single mother in East Chicago, Indiana, where she lives.
So Anna... |
| Jul 1, 2016 | Mississippi’s only abortion clinic gets renewed hope after Supreme Court decision | In the shadow of the Supreme Court’s decision on Texas abortion clinics on Monday was a second one, a day later, that saved the one remaining abortion clinic in all of Mississippi. The decision brought a momentary breath of relief for clini... |
| Oct 19, 2015 | Woman Imprisoned for Having a Miscarriage as a Teen Now Begging for Action | The day before Cristina Quintanilla was arrested for murdering her baby, she remembers feeling slightly off. She was seven months into her pregnancy, so at first she didn't think much of it. She drank water with some sugar to feel better. B... |
| Sep 28, 2015 | When Having a Miscarriage Can Get You Life in Prison | In many parts of the world, getting an abortion is a criminal act. In El Salvador, the ban on the procedure is so extreme that even women who miscarry their pregnancies may face life in prison for homicide.
Last week, US Secretary of State ... |
| Abortion providers ask Supreme Court to quickly take up challenge of restrictive Texas law | A group of abortion providers and advocates asked the Supreme Court on Thursday to quickly review their challenge to a highly restrictive abortion law in Texas.
That law, which bans most abortions after as early as six weeks and allows priv... |
| Texas Supreme Court paves way for strict abortion law to remain in place | The Texas Supreme Court on Friday paved the way for the nation's toughest abortion law to remain in place in a ruling that again deflated clinics' hopes of stopping - or even pausing - the restrictions anytime soon.
The ruling by the all-Re... |
| Supreme Court’s overturning of Roe v. Wade will financially hurt the ‘most marginalized’ women, experts say | The Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade may cause financial hardship for many women, especially those already facing economic instability, research shows.
“It sadly affects the most marginalized women,” said Carolyn McClanahan,... |
| Oklahoma lawmakers passed 5 contradictory abortion bans. No one knows which laws will be enforced. | State of Oklahoma; IStock Photo; Jenny Chang-Rodriguez/Vicky Leta/Insider
In the past year, Gov. Kevin Stitt of Oklahoma has signed five contradictory abortion bans into law. Few of the 42 lawmakers who sponsored the bills could agree on wh... |
| These organizations are asking for donations following the Supreme Court's decision to overturn Roe v. Wade | Demonstrators attend a rally for Planned Parenthood. AP Photo/Rogelio V. Soli
The Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, ending nearly 50 years of abortion rights protections nationwide.
Abortion rights groups are calling on supporters to do... |
| Joe Manchin says he'll vote against Democrats' bill that would codify Roe v. Wade's abortion-rights protections | Sen. Joe Manchin. Photo by Sarah Silbiger/Getty Images
Joe Manchin said he'd vote against advancing Democrats' bill that'd codify federal abortion rights.
Manchin said that his party's proposal went too far but that he'd support a narrower ... |
| Louisiana clinic challenges ‘trigger’ abortion ban after Roe | A health clinic in Louisiana has filed a lawsuit seeking to block laws banning abortion that came into force in the southern US state after the United States Supreme Court overturned the landmark Roe v Wade abortion ruling last week.
Louisi... |
