A historian of gender and women’s rights explains how women’s protests focused on their rights evolved from the 1960s through the present.
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Most Americans surveyed did not know how pregnancies are dated or how long a trimester is – but this is especially true among some groups, like people who say they support six-week abortion bans.
The implications of restrictive laws or near-total bans go well beyond abortions, reducing overall access to prenatal care, birthing services, routine reproductive health care and more.
Abortions happened in Arizona, despite a near-complete abortion ban enacted in 1864. But people also faced penalties for them, including a female doctor who went to prison.
EMTALA requires hospitals to provide stabilizing treatment to all patients – but Idaho is arguing that its abortion ban means it doesn’t have to allow the procedure, even if it is medically needed.
There are many outdated laws that states keep on the books, even if they aren’t used. If the Supreme Court overturns legal precedents on rights like same-sex and interracial marriage, that can change.
Two legal scholars who study abortion-related laws explain what happened at the Supreme Court in a case that could make it harder to get an abortion.
The increasing misogyny and oppression against women is reflected in this new horror, elevating it to something more than a mere nunsploitation movie.
While both Congress and the president have extensive powers, they cannot easily change the law to protect abortions.
A recent ruling from the Supreme Court of Alabama implies frozen embryos are legally equivalent to living children. This creates risks for IVF providers, and therefore problems for patients.
Democrats now have an issue to mobilise voters. For Republicans, however, it’s more complicated.
Women in Texas and in other states with abortion bans are suing, asking for clarification on when medical exceptions could actually be granted.
This lawsuit is only the latest chapter in a battle between the state and the reproductive health care provider that heated up in 2011.
The new constitutional amendment to protect the right to abortion in Ohio − as well as other wins for Democrats − shows the importance of ballot initiatives and focusing on abortion in elections.
Democrats regained the Virginia legislature in the 2023 election, and that spells trouble for Republicans seeking to win the White House in 2024.
An analysis of anti-abortion rights groups in the US shows that while some specifically turn to Christianity to explain their positions, others are looking at broader, human rights arguments.
The US is one of just four countries that have rolled back women’s abortion rights in recent years.
In the US, white men have long had the power to make decisions about women’s reproductive health care. Those decisions have often been especially harmful to Black women.
From the pre-Roe years to today, country musicians have written about the realities of life with restrictions on reproductive rights.
Scientists can create viable eggs from two male mice. In the wake of CRISPR controversies and restrictive abortion laws, two experts start a dialogue on ethical research in reproductive biology.
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