A study found ER doctors are more hesitant to care for pregnant patients who are bleeding.

The lawsuit filed by Louisiana, Alabama and Arkansas to the Supreme Court escalates the battle between states that outlaw abortion and those that support nationwide access by mail.

Earlier this year, the U.S. Supreme Court sent Louisiana v. FDA back to the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals for consideration of the merits of Louisiana's claims, which aim to reinstate a nationwide re...

Some 41 states restrict abortions, a ‘core component’ of maternal fetal practice, high-risk pregnancy non-profit says

A new report finds that most abortion patients can’t afford care amid the cost-of-living crisis. Clinics and abortion funds are absorbing huge losses as a result.

Patients are showing up ‘later and sicker’ for abortion care as more US states adopt bans and significant restrictions

A new March of Dimes report finds that one-third of counties in the U.S. don't have access to ob-gyn providers or labor and delivery units.

“This brief plays an important role in that it just clearly lays out the scientific evidence and how clear it is,” a researcher that signed the brief explained

With prompt and appropriate medical care, experts say, people shouldn’t die from an ectopic pregnancy. Women in Texas and Oklahoma have sued over delays in care, which, coupled with our new analysis, ...

The case argues that Texas’ near-total abortion ban violates the state and U.S. constitutions. It is the first lawsuit over a death linked to an abortion ban.

Under pressure from anti-abortion advocates and officials, the EPA has agreed to study whether mifepristone and misoprostol are in the water supply in multiple cities.

Girls and women who had abortions did not experience any subsequent significant increase in medication use for mental health, according to a study published by JAMA Psychiatry. Recent research on the ...

This Viewpoint explores how a US Food and Drug Administration Risk Evaluation and Mitigation Strategy on mifepristone limited access to medication abortion despite its long-standing history of safety ...

With prompt and appropriate medical care, experts say, people shouldn’t die from an ectopic pregnancy. Women in Texas and Oklahoma have sued over delays in care, which, coupled with our new analysis, ...

Anti-abortion extremists are doing everything in their power to slash access to the abortion pill mifepristone.

This qualitative study examines the association of abortion restrictions with abortion-adjacent care across medical specialties via interviews with US physicians who care for pregnant patients.

No, you’re not dreaming. A store brand of the OTC birth control pill is now on shelves at Walgreens and CVS! The store b

In 2022, the U.S. Supreme Court's Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization decision allowed states to enact laws that ban or severely restrict abortion. Four years later, a study led by Harvard Me...

Girls and women who had abortions did not experience any subsequent significant increase in medication use for mental health, according to a study published by JAMA Psychiatry. Recent research on the ...

A 2024 state law reclassified misoprostol and mifepristone as controlled substances. That affects how hospitals can access the drugs in non-abortion emergencies, and other states appear to be taking n...

In July 2023, the first-ever over-the-counter (OTC) daily birth control pill, Opill, a progestin-only pill, was approved by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Three years later, generic versio...

Johnson County judge Christopher Jayaram ruled the state’s abortion restrictions, including mandatory waiting periods, violated Kansans’ right to bodily autonomy and “infringe upon a woman’s fundament...

There is no evidence that states are purposefully misclassifying abortion data to the CDC.

In a private call before his confirmation vote, the acting AG said Trump officials aim to make the decision ending the national right to abortion “permanent in every single state.”

Four years after the Dobbs decision, critics say medical exemptions in abortion bans are so vague they delay care.

More Americans now hold absolutist positions, supporting legal access to abortion in all or most cases and opposing government regulation altogether.

How state abortion bans are affecting doctors and how they practice

“What’s really terrifying is that one state’s law and ruling in this situation could impact so many other states where abortion is still legal.”

Girls and women who had abortions did not experience any subsequent significant increase in medication use for mental health, according to a study published by JAMA Psychiatry. Recent research on the…

Almost three years to the date since the Supreme Court decision to end the constitutional right to abortion, the American Journal of Public Health published a new study showing more people in states w...

Child welfare referred Black families to law enforcement 14,000 times, despite not confirming claims of abuse.

Todd Blanche agrees during his confirmation hearing to review using the 1873 Comstock Act to stop mifepristone from being sent through the mail.

States that have banned abortion are suing to stop mailing of abortion pills over state lines. But the telehealth providers say no matter the outcome, they can adapt, and so will their patients.