Abortion Rights

Planned Parenthood to spend $40 million ahead of November on Democrats supporting abortion rights

By Will Weissert, Associated Press

The organization is betting that voters angry at Republican-led efforts to further restrict access to abortion can be the difference in key races around the country.

'They want us to be scared': Anti-abortion activists target ballot measure organizers in Arkansas

By Barbara Rodriguez, Grace Panetta, The 19th

A ballot initiative effort in a deep-red state highlights the safety risks around the country for a group of organizers who are mostly women.

Trump says states should decide their own abortion laws, declines to endorse national ban

By Jill Colvin, Associated Press

One of the country’s most prominent groups opposed to abortion rights says it's “deeply disappointed” in Trump’s position.

Why 2024 may be the most consequential election for reproductive rights in 50 years

By John Yang, Harry Zahn

The Supreme Court will hear arguments on Tuesday in a case challenging FDA rules that make it easier to get mifepristone, the medication that accounts for more than half of all U.S. abortions. John Yang speaks with legal historian Mary…

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Republicans block Senate bill to protect nationwide access to IVF treatments

By Mary Clare Jalonick, Stephen Groves, Associated Press

Senate Republicans have blocked legislation that would protect access to in vitro fertilization, objecting to a vote on the issue Wednesday even after widespread backlash to a recent ruling by the Alabama Supreme Court that threatens the practice.

In states with abortion bans, rape exceptions 'fail to provide reasonable access' to survivors, researchers say

By Laura Santhanam

The resulting estimate is likely conservative, according to authors of the research letter published this week in the journal JAMA Internal Medicine.

WATCH: Harris targets Trump as she rallies for abortion rights in Wisconsin

By Chris Megerian, Colleen Long, Associated Press

Her trip on Monday is the first stop on a nationwide tour focused on abortion rights, a critical issue in this year's election.

Timing of Ohio's new abortion protections unclear due to pending lawsuits

By Julie Carr Smyth, Associated Press

The amendment did not repeal any existing Ohio laws relating to reproductive rights. That has prompted some anti-abortion activists to step up pressure on Republican elected officials to extend their efforts to halt, delay or significantly water it down.

Here are the states where abortion access may be on the ballot in 2024

By Geoff Mulvihill, Associated Press

Ohio on Tuesday became the seventh state where voters have opted to protect abortion access over the past year.

Virginia Democrats take full control of statehouse

By Sarah Rankin, Associated Press

The outcome is a sharp loss for Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin, who exerted a great deal of energy, money and political capital on an effort to secure a GOP trifecta.