The Latest Breaking News from Abortion

Four states—California, Michigan, Ohio, and Vermont—have constitutions that explicitly provide for a right to an abortion. Most recently, Ohio voters approved Issue 1 on Nov. 7, 2023, which established a state constitutional right to “make and carry out one’s own reproductive decisions,” including decisions about abortion, contraception, fertility treatment, miscarriage…

After months of disarray over the legality of abortion, the state supreme court will decide whether to reinstate ‘zombie’ ban

Kate Cox, a 31-year-old mother of two from Dallas, is more than 20 weeks pregnant with a fetus with a rare genetic defect, full trisomy 18, which means it will likely die before birth or at most live a few days.

Kate Cox, whose foetus was diagnosed with a fatal condition, was granted a temporary restraining order last week, authorising her to seek an emergency abortion

Kate Cox, a 31-year-old mother of two, is ill and carrying a fetus with a genetic condition that is almost always fatal. She decided to leave Texas to get an abortion.

A Texas woman has been forced to leave the state for an emergency abortion after being prevented from terminating her potentially life-threatening pregnancy, a court filing by her lawyers said Monday.

Abortion issues come before two other state Supreme Courts—in Arizona and Wyoming—this week as well.

The Texas Supreme Court ruled that Kate Cox did not qualify for an abortion under the medical exception to the state’s near-total abortion ban. Just hours prior, Cox’s lawyers said she’d traveled out of state to have the procedure.

Center for the Reproductive Rights, which is representing Kate Cox, says she left after being ‘in and out of the emergency room’

‘This past week of legal limbo has been hellish for Kate,’ the Center for Reproductive Rights said about the Dallas woman seeking the procedure

Attorneys for a pregnant Texas woman who sought court permission for an abortion in an unprecedented challenge to one of the most restrictive bans in the U.S. say she has left the state to obtain the procedure