Learn what a viable pregnancy is, and how health care providers use strict ultrasound criteria to diagnose a nonviable pregnancy. Medically reviewed by Alyssa Dweck, MS, MD, FACOG A viable pregnancy ...

Jaci Statton, 25, was sick and bleeding from her partial molar pregnancy but Oklahoma abortion bans prevented doctors from performing a procedure to remove harmful, pre-cancerous tissue courtesy jaci ...

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Two states, Missouri and Nevada, will have abortion amendments on the ballot in 2026. A handful of others could too.

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — Reproductive rights activists in Missouri agree they want to get a ballot measure before voters in the fall to roll back one of the strictest abortion bans in the country and ...

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Imagine that a comatose patient is admitted to a hospital. The patient is connected to a heart-lung lifesaving machine while the intravenous line is providing vital fluids and nutrition. The patient’s ...

Ectopic pregnancies are rare but very serious, and you may not hear about them until you (or someone you know) experience one.

After the Texas Supreme court turned down 31-year-old Kate Cox’s appeal, she was essentially left with two choices: she could carry her non-viable pregnancy to term, which her doctors say could ...

The state of Mississippi will be arguing that the Supreme Court should allow it and other states to ban abortion after 15 weeks. More specifically, it's asking the court to strike down a lower court's ...

When Missouri voters decide in less than three weeks whether to enshrine abortion rights in the state constitution, the ballot measure before them will include a legal definition of fetal viability ...

California voters are deciding whether to add a state constitutional amendment that protects abortion rights. But specifics are hard to come by. KQED's April Dembosky reports. APRIL DEMBOSKY, BYLINE: ...