Abortion Archives

[Photo: A pregnant person lies on a bed in a hospital while attached to a cardiotocography sensor.

New York Lawmakers: No Money to Address Maternal Mortality

Auditi Guha

Sixty-seven percent of people who suffer maternal death are on Medicaid, while Black women die due to pregnancy at a rate almost four times higher than their white counterparts.

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Gavel Drop: States Cry Foul About Proposed Census Citizenship Question

Imani Gandy & Jessica Mason Pieklo

And in other news, did Facebook exclude women and families from seeing certain types of housing ads? Advocates say yes—and that it's illegal.

My Abortion Brought Me Closer to God

Kristine A. Kippins

Home from college for Easter, I had to go to church with my family—which I had feared doing ever since having an abortion.

Advocates Say Indiana’s New Abortion Reporting Law Could Further Stigmatize Abortion Care (Updated)

Teddy Wilson

Reproductive rights advocates raised concerns about the further stigmatization of abortion care, and the impact the law could have on pregnant people who are diagnosed with mental illness.

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New Report Reaffirms Safety of Medication Abortion Drug

Nicole Knight

Abortion providers had hailed the revised label for Mifeprex as affirming a protocol they said they'd found safe and effective in practice.

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Kentucky Republicans Ignore Court Decisions, Ban Common Abortion Procedure (Updated)

Teddy Wilson

Fifteen Democratic legislators in the Kentucky State House joined Republicans in approving a ban on an abortion procedure known as dilation and evacuation.

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The Trump Administration Wants to Expand Access to Insurance That Discriminates Against Women

Dania Palanker

Short-term plans are riddled with limitations and exclusions, many of which are prime examples of the kind of egregious gender discrimination that was rampant in the individual health insurance market before the passage of the Affordable Care Act.

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Ohio’s Ridiculous New Abortion Bill Likely Won’t Become Law. But It Still Scares Me.

Mallory McMaster

The incendiary language used in abortion bills like HB 565 is designed to make my community turn against me.

Lawmakers in Cash-Strapped Oklahoma Are Determined to Pump State Funds Into Fake Clinics

Teddy Wilson

Tamya Cox of Planned Parenthood Great Plains said it was “disappointing” that state lawmakers would consider directing state or federal funds to organizations that don't provide reproductive health care.

[Photo: Artificial insemination in vitro-fertilization in a laboratory]

New Personhood Pushes Renew Threats to IVF

Angela Lawson

If personhood proponents have their way, they'll restrict the ways people with infertility can build the families they want and push us to illogical extremes.

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