Inside a ceremony at a Maryland facility that has galvanized the religious community on both sides of the abortion debate.

This year significantly shaped how people access reproductive care, with far-ranging impacts across health care

Nearly half of abortion patients say they are surprised by the intensity of pain they experienced from medication abortions, according to a study published last week. A survey from the National Health Service‘s British Pregnancy Advisory Service,

In states with abortion bans, ProPublica has found, pregnant women have bled to death, succumbed to fatal infections and wound up in morgues with what medical examiners recorded were “products of conception” still in their bodies.

Sanctity of Life Sunday is approaching on Jan. 19, 2025, and it is time to take stock of where the church stands on this issue.

About 1 in 4 women in the U.S. will get an abortion by the age of 45. Only you know what’s right for your life and future. If you’re thinking about having an abortion, support and medically accurate information can help you make the decision that’s best for you.

Recent research and an analysis by The Associated Press found states with restrictive abortion laws have more porous safety nets for mothers and young children.

This story was originally published by The 19th and KFF Health News. Sign up for the 19th’s newsletter. BAKER CITY, Oregon — In what has become a routine event in rural America, a hospital maternity ward closed in 2023 in this small Oregon town about an hour from the Idaho border.

GOP state leaders in Tennessee and other states that banned abortion after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in 2022 argue that they are bolstering services for families. Tennessee boosted its Medicaid coverage for mothers in 2022 from 60 days postpartum to a year, which allowed an additional 3,000 moms to use the program each year.

The battles over abortion in the U.S. are increasingly focusing on the pills that are now the most common way pregnancies are ended.

The state will continue dozens of criminal accusations against individual petition circulators accused of forging signatures.

Physicians in Missouri should be able to begin providing abortions following a Jackson County judge's Dec. 20 ruling, but for women in Mid-Missouri, nothing has changed.