Adriana Smith, a 30 year-old nurse and mother, was about nine weeks pregnant in February when doctors declared her brain dead after she suffered a medical emergency. But Smith’s mother, April Newkirk, told Atlanta TV station WXIA that doctors at Emory University Hospital have been keeping her organs functioning since then until the fetus can be delivered, citing Georgia’s law banning most abortions…
The US health secretary, Robert F Kennedy Jr, said on Wednesday that he had directed the FDA to review the regulations around the abortion pill mifepristone.
The nation’s most influential anti-abortion groups have a new plan to roll back access to the procedure for millions of Americans in what they’re calling the “biggest opportunity for the pro-life movement” since toppling Roe v. Wade.
This week marks 100 days since President Donald Trump took office for a second term. In that time, Trump has made several moves that affect abortion and reproductive health care access across the country.
Pregnant people living in states with abortion bans are almost twice as likely to die during pregnancy or soon after giving birth, a report released Wednesday found.
The number of abortions provided in most of the U.S. increased slightly in 2024 from the year before, according to new data released on April 15.
Imagine bleeding to the point of losing consciousness during a miscarriage. Then, after being treated by health-care providers, you are jailed for how you handled your medical emergency.
The Trump administration on Tuesday began withholding tens of millions in federal funding from Planned Parenthood and other health-care providers, a move that will curtail access to services including cancer screenings and affordable birth control.
The Trump administration is planning to freeze millions in federal family planning grants, a move that could significantly hinder operations at organizations including Planned Parenthood, The Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday.
Two people have been arrested and charged with performing illegal abortions at a Houston-area health clinic, the first criminal charges brought under the state’s near-total abortion ban.
Last May, Louisiana passed a law to monitor misoprostol and mifepristone, the two pills commonly used to induce abortions.
President Donald Trump’s administration took a major step Wednesday in support of states with sweeping abortion bans, dropping a Biden-era lawsuit against Idaho that sought to protect abortion access in medical emergencies.
Pregnancy became far more dangerous in Texas after the state banned abortion in 2021, ProPublica found in a first-of-its-kind data analysis.
The number of infants dying after states enact abortion bans is even higher than expected, a new study found.
The U.S. Supreme Court will hear arguments in April over whether the state can refuse to let South Carolinians use their Medicaid coverage for non-abortion health care services offered at Planned Parenthood clinics, according to a Monday docket entry.
New York doctor was indicted by a Louisiana grand jury on Friday for allegedly prescribing an abortion pill online in the Deep South state, which has one of the strictest near-total abortion bans in the country.
President Donald Trump has directed his administration to block global aid recipients from telling patients about abortion – a move that could weaken reproductive health care worldwide.
Pharmacists have begun prescribing abortion pills, not simply dispensing the medication – a development intended to broaden abortion access by taking advantage of rules that give them prescribing ability in most states.
Pharmacists have begun prescribing abortion pills, not simply dispensing the medication – a development intended to broaden abortion access by taking advantage of rules that give them prescribing ability in most states.
Pharmacists have begun prescribing abortion pills, not simply dispensing the medication – a development intended to broaden abortion access by taking advantage of rules that give them prescribing ability in most states.
