Medications used to perform abortions are also widely used to treat severe pregnancy complications, as well as several conditions unrelated to childbirth.
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Changes in how healthcare is managed have had a meaningful effect on what contraceptive options are available to women.
First Choice, the crisis pregnancy center chain that brought the case, argued that merely issuing a subpoena can deter donors from making a gift.
Polls indicate majority support for abortion rights in most states, but laws differ greatly between places that uphold such rights and those that ban the procedure.
Four years after the Supreme Court’s Dobbs ruling gave states the power to ban abortion, further restrictions are arriving through legislation and litigation.
Judges and federal regulators will make significant decisions over Americans’ reproductive rights.
Banning abortion instantly oppresses a huge swath of society. And enforcing abortion bans begets a police state − an upside for dictators from Mussolini to Ortega.
Research shows that Supreme Court justices affiliated with the group are more consistently conservative than other justices, meaning they seldom deviate from their voting behavior.
In England and Wales, people do not have explicit abortion rights as a matter of domestic law.
Opponents of abortion used to say ‘love them both’, but recent protests in New South Wales show how the strategy has taken a more confrontational tone. But why?
Women’s stories of seeking abortions later in pregnancy highlight what’s missing from the current conversation about abortion policies in the US.
The US president promised to ‘protect women’ – whether they like it or not.
The court’s decision on whether Medicaid patients can choose their own health care provider could have consequences far beyond South Carolina.
Embracing the lower fertility rates we’re seeing could help ease humanity’s impact on the planet.
The FACE Act was signed by Bill Clinton in 1994 to guarantee access to abortion and reproductive health care protected by the Roe v. Wade Supreme Court decision.
IUDs are small devices implanted in the uterus to prevent pregnancy. Finding a doctor to insert an IUD can be difficult and costly – but this could soon change.
Most Americans actually agree on key issues, including reproductive rights, firearms laws and climate change.
It was already illegal to ask others to carry a child for you in Italy. It is now also illegal to travel abroad to do so.
The US election was supposed to be a referendum on women’s reproductive rights.
Research shows that when abortion rights are on the ballot, democracy wins − including in the US.
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