The Latest Breaking News on The fight for abortion rights: what to know going into 2024

Democrats going into 2024 elections see abortion as a winning issue, while some Republicans are pushing for a national ban.

State abortion policies have shifted quickly since the U.S. Supreme Court last year ended a nationwide right to abortion after nearly 50 years

A year after the U.S. Supreme Court rescinded a five-decade-old right to abortion, 25 million women of childbearing age now live in states where the law makes abortions harder to get

Abortion-rights groups have filed a motion to dismiss their lawsuit challenging Kentucky’s near-total abortion ban

Nearly a year after the U.S. Supreme Court allowed abortion bans around the country to take effect, some cities and states are pushing in the other direction, a new report finds.

A bid by Iowa Republican Gov. Kim Reynolds to reinstate the state’s strict ban on most abortions has failed

When the Supreme Court ruled on June 24, 2022, in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization that states – some of which have been chipping away at women’s access to abortion for years – should decide the legality of abortion, Justice Samuel Alito wrote in the court’s majority opinion that…

In a blow to abortion opponents in Ohio, a fall ballot issue aimed at enshrining access to the procedure in the state’s constitution won't be split into two separate issues: one about abortion and one involving other reproductive care

A state law from 1910 threatens abortion providers with a felony punishable up to five years in prison, writes Alex Woodward

The state’s Supreme Court blocked a similar measure just months ago

Abortion rights advocates are challenging the law in court, while access to legal abortion care is in jeopardy for millions of Americans in southern states