The Latest Breaking News from Abortion

The fraught politics of abortion have helped turn an August ballot question in Ohio that would make it harder to change the state constitution into a cauldron of misinformation and fear-mongering

Aid Access ships medication abortion to all 50 states under the protection provided to clinicians serving patients in banned states

Wisconsin’s Supreme Court will flip from majority conservative to liberal control next month and Democrats have high hopes the change will lead to the state’s abortion ban being overturned and maps redrawn to weaken GOP control of the Legislature and congressional districts

Last year’s US Supreme Court ruling left women struggling to find abortions

The state has emerged as an example of how Democratic lawmakers can take proactive steps to bolster abortion access

Support for the 1993 law wanes as religious liberty clashes with LGBT rights and abortion advocacy.

Austin Dennard unable to obtain abortion in home state because of confusion surrounding exceptions under restrictive Texas ban

Mother and daughter exhumed aborted foetus twice before burning it

Four women relived their traumas during two days of harrowing courtroom testimony against the state’s anti-abortion law. Texas attorneys questioned them about their age, doctors, and whether state officials personally told them they couldn’t get an abortion, Alex Woodward reports

Women tell court about experience of carrying life-threatening pregnancies because of restrictive law with few exemptions

Behaviours that attracted penalties included gathering outside abortion clinics and begging