The Latest Breaking News from Abortion

Enforcement of the law can begin as litigation winds its way through the courts.

A judge has sentenced an abortion opponent to five years in prison for burning a Wyoming abortion clinic

Cochran County, which borders New Mexico, joins a small group of other rural Texas counties that have passed these ordinances. Abortion-rights supporters say the new policies are not legal.

Manchin and Republicans say the agency has overstepped its authority.

In 2022 the number of medical abortions in France reached its highest level since 1990, thanks to a simplified process for women wishing to terminate unwanted pregnancies.

To mark International Safe Abortion Day, we're taking stock of women's abortion rights in the United States. Terminations are now illegal in 14 states following the Supreme Court's decision to overturn Roe v. Wade last year. Some women in those states are now forced to travel elsewhere in the US…

Advocates worry there are limited guardrails protecting data from law enforcement during abortion investigations.

A woman who says anxiety and nightmares led her to set fire to Wyoming’s only full-service abortion clinic is scheduled to be sentenced Thursday

California Gov. Gavin Newsom has signed a law protecting doctors and pharmacists who mail abortion pills to patients in other states

Ohio Supreme Court justices have questioned the state’s lawyer about a legal strategy that Ohio is attempting in hopes of resuming enforcement of a ban on abortion except in the earliest weeks of pregnancy

Cochran County commissioners meet Thursday to discuss the ban. Abortion-rights supporters say the bans are unenforceable and meant to stoke fear.