Abortion

FILE - Protesters dressed as Abraham Lincoln chant during a Planned Parenthood rally in support of abortion access outside the U.S. Supreme Court, April 15, 2023, in Washington. A new poll from from AAPI Data and The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research shows that Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders in the U.S. are highly supportive of legal abortion, even in situations where the pregnant person wants an abortion for any reason. (AP Photo/Nathan Howard, File)

Nearly 8 in 10 AAPI adults in the US think abortion should be legal, an AP-NORC poll finds

A new poll shows that Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders in the United States are highly supportive of legal abortion, even in situations where the pregnant person wants an abortion for any reason.

Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump listens to a question from a reporter after voting in the Florida primary election in Palm Beach, Fla., Tuesday, March 19, 2024. (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee)

Trump suggests he’d support a national ban on abortions around 15 weeks of pregnancy

FILE - People rally in support of abortion rights, May 21, 2019, in Las Vegas. On Tuesday, March 19, 2024, a Nevada judge struck down the state's limits on Medicaid coverage for abortion services, saying the restrictions violate equal rights protections. (AP Photo/John Locher, File)

Nevada judge blocks state from limiting Medicaid coverage for abortions

FILE - A patient prepares to take the first of two combination pills, mifepristone, for a medication abortion during a visit to a clinic in Kansas City, Kan., on, Oct. 12, 2022. More than six in 10 of the abortions in the United States last year were done through medication, up from 53% in 2020, according to research released Tuesday, March 19, 2024. The Guttmacher Institute, a research group that supports abortion rights, said about 642,700 medication abortions took place in the first full calendar year after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade. Medication abortion accounted for 63% of abortions in the formal health care system. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel, File)

More than six in 10 US abortions in 2023 were done by medication — a significant jump since 2020

FILE - A large crowd marches on Cedar Avenue to downtown during a University of Minnesota student-led protest in Minneapolis, Minn., after the Supreme Court overruled Roe v. Wade on June 24, 2022. The Minnesota Court of Appeals ruled Monday, March 18, 2024, that a pharmacist who refused to provide emergency contraceptives to a customer because of his personal beliefs engaged in discrimination. (Renée Jones Schneider/Star Tribune via AP, File)

Minnesota court rules pharmacist discriminated against woman in denying emergency contraception

Senate Judiciary Committee hears testimony on reproductive freedoms

The US Senate Judiciary Committee held a hearing on Wednesday entitled ‘The Continued Assault on Reproductive Freedoms in a Post-Dobbs America.’

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Arizona state Sen. Eva Burch, D-Phoenix, pauses before answering a question as she talks about her decision to have an abortion during an interview at her Capitol office Tuesday, March 19, 2024, in Phoenix. The lawmaker says she plans to have an abortion after learning that her pregnancy is not viable, making the announcement on the state Senate floor Monday, according to the Arizona Republic. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)

Arizona lawmaker says she announced plans to get an abortion to underscore out-of-touch laws

A pregnant Arizona lawmaker who revealed in a speech in the state Senate that she’s planning to get an abortion says she wanted to share with the public the practical effects of abortion restrictions passed over the years.

Republican U.S. Senatorial candidate Sam Brown joins his wife Amy Brown after speaking to a small group of supporters and media after filing his paperwork to run for the Senate, Thursday, March 14, 2024, at the State Capitol in Carson City, Nev. Brown is seeking to replace incumbent U.S. Sen. Jacky Rosen. (AP Photo/Andy Barron)

Abortion story from wife of Nevada Senate hopeful reveals complexity of issue for GOP candidates

When the wife of Nevada Senate candidate Sam Brown spoke about an abortion she had in Texas right before they met, some Republicans welcomed the disclosure.

FILE - South Dakota Republican Rep. Jon Hansen poses in the House of Representatives in the state Capitol in Pierre, S.D., on Wednesday, Feb. 21, 2024. Hansen sponsored a bill Gov. Kristi Noem signed on Friday, March 15, 2024, that allows signers of initiative petitions to withdraw their signatures. (AP Photo/Jack Dura, File)

A new front opens over South Dakota ballot initiatives: withdrawing signatures from petitions

South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem has signed a bill allowing signers of ballot initiative petitions to revoke their signatures.

Vice President Kamala Harris speaks at Planned Parenthood, Thursday, March. 14, 2024, in St. Paul, Minn. (AP Photo/Adam Bettcher)

In a first, Vice President Harris visits Minnesota abortion clinic to blast ‘immoral’ restrictions

Vice President Kamala Harris has toured a Minnesota Planned Parenthood clinic that performs abortions and provides other reproductive care.

FILE - Chief Justice John Roberts poses for a portrait in Washington, Oct. 7, 2022. Federal courts moved Tuesday, March 12, 2024, to make it harder to file lawsuits in front of judges seen as friendly to a point of view, a practice known as judge shopping, that gained national attention in a major abortion-medication case. The practice's use in patent cases was highlighted by Roberts in his 2021 report on the federal judiciary. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

Federal courts move to restrict ‘judge shopping,’ which got attention after abortion medication case

Federal courts are moving to make it harder to file lawsuits in front of judges seen as friendly to a point of view, a practice known as judge shopping that gained national attention in a major abortion-medication case.

FILE - Demonstrators show signs for Issue 1, guaranteeing reproductive rights, in a parking lot as people arrive for early in-person voting in Cincinnati, Nov. 2, 2023. Ohio's political pendulum swung left last year, as voters overwhelmingly supported enshrining abortion rights and voted to legalize recreational marijuana. The victories have encouraged Democrats defending a pivotal U.S. Senate seat in a state that's twice supported Donald Trump by wide margins. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File)

Purple Ohio? Parties in the former bellwether state take lessons from 2023 abortion, marijuana votes

Academics, politicos and Republicans caution not to read too much into 2023’s election outcomes in Ohio.

FILE - In this Jan. 8, 2019 photo, South Dakota state legislators listen while Gov. Kristi Noem delivers the State of the State address at the state Capitol in Pierre, S.D. (Ryan Hermens/Rapid City Journal via AP, File)

Asked to clear up abortion bans, GOP leaders blame doctors and misinformation for the confusion

In Republican-led states across the U.S., conservative legislators are refusing to reevaluate abortion bans — even as doctors and patients insist the laws’ exceptions are dangerously unclear.

FILE - President Joe Biden delivers the State of the Union address to a joint session of Congress at the Capitol, March 7, 2024, in Washington. (Shawn Thew/Pool via AP, File)

Biden’s big speech showed his uneasy approach to abortion, an issue bound to be key in the campaign

President Joe Biden made abortion and reproductive rights a central theme of his State of the Union speech, but he never mentioned the word “abortion.”

Justice Minister Eric Dupond-Moretti and French President Emmanuel Macron, background right, attendattend a ceremony to seal the right to abortion in the French constitution, on International Women's Day, at the Place Vendome, in Paris, France March 8, 2024. France inscribed the guaranteed right to abortion in its constitution Friday, a powerful message of support for women's right on International Women's Day. (Gonzalo Fuentes/Pool Photo via AP)

France enshrines abortion as a constitutional right as the world marks International Women’s Day

France has inscribed the guaranteed right to abortion in its constitution, a powerful message of support for women’s rights on International Women’s Day.

From left, South Dakota House Speaker Hugh Bartels, Republican House Majority Leader Will Mortenson, Republican Senate Majority Leader Casey Crabtree and Republican Sen. Jean Hunhoff appear at a press conference, Thursday, Feb. 22, 2024, at the state Capitol in Pierre, S.D. The South Dakota Legislature largely wrapped up its session on Thursday, March 7, but lawmakers will be back in Pierre on Monday, March 25, to consider overriding any vetoes and to officially adjourn. (AP Photo/Jack Dura)

South Dakota Legislature ends session but draws division over upcoming abortion rights initiative

South Dakota’s legislative session is all but over. Lawmakers passed a $7.3 billion fiscal year 2025 budget on Thursday, and they will be back in Pierre later this month to consider overriding any vetoes and to officially adjourn.

FILE - Protesters gather outside the Supreme Court in Washington, Friday, June 24, 2022, after the Supreme Court ended constitutional protections for abortion that had been in place nearly 50 years. More than a quarter of female Black voters describe abortion as their top issue in this year's presidential election, a new survey out Thursday from health policy research firm KFF finds. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)

More Black women say abortion is their top issue in the 2024 election, a survey finds

More than a quarter of female Black voters describe abortion as their top issue in this year’s presidential election.

FILE - Jazmin Cazares, whose young sister Jacklyn was was one of 19 children killed at Robb Elementary School, attends a hearing at the state capitol, June 23, 2022, in Austin, Texas. (AP Photo/Eric Gay, File)

State of the Union guests spotlight divide on abortion and immigration but offer some rare unity

The guest list for President Joe Biden’s State of the Union address speaks volumes about what Democrats and Republicans want to focus on as the 2024 election season heats up.

Kansas House Health and Human Services Committee Chair Brenda Landwehr, R-Wichita, left, confers with committee assistant David Long following a House vote on a bill increasing reporting requirements for abortion providers, Thursday, March 7, 2024, at the Statehouse in Topeka, Kan. The House has approved the bill, which requires providers to ask patients why they want abortions and report their answers to the state. (AP Photo/John Hanna)

Voters backed abortion rights. Yet Kansas could make doctors ask patients why they want abortions

Kansas is moving closer to requiring abortion providers to ask patients why they’re terminating their pregnancies and report the answers to the state.

Maryland state Sen. Ariana Kelly, a Democrat, poses in the Maryland Senate, Wednesday, March 6, 2024, in Annapolis, Md., shortly before testifying on legislation she is sponsoring to create a grant program to provide funding to boost security at abortion clinics. (AP Photo/Brian Witte)

Maryland abortion clinics could get money for security under bill in state Senate

ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — Abortion clinics in Maryland could pay for enhanced security and greater access through a grant program being considered by state lawmakers, who want to tap into millions of dollars that have sat unused by insurance carriers as part of the federal Affordable Care Act.

FILE - Protesters chant, "One vote to save our lives," as they are heard in the legislative chamber during a final reading on a bill that combined a 12-week abortion ban with a measure to restrict gender-affirming care for people under 19, May 16, 2023, at state Capitol in Lincoln, Neb. Members of the Nebraska Supreme Court appeared on Tuesday, March 5, 2024, to meet with skepticism a state lawyer's defense of a new law that combines a 12-week abortion ban with another measure to limit gender-affirming health care for minors. (Kenneth Ferriera/Lincoln Journal Star via AP, File)

Nebraska’s new law limiting abortion and trans healthcare is argued before the state Supreme Court

The Nebraska Supreme Court is considering arguments made in a lawsuit challenging a law passed last year that combines a 12-week abortion ban with restrictions on gender-affirming care for those under 19.

FILE - People stage a protest on 'International Safe Abortion Day' to ask for more guarantees on the enforcement of the abortion law that they claim is seriously endangered by the high rate of doctors' conscientious objection in the country, in Milan, on Sept. 28, 2022. Italy resisted Vatican pressure and guaranteed access to abortion starting in 1978, allowing women to terminate pregnancies upon request in the first 12 weeks of pregnancy, or later if her health or life is endangered. (AP Photo/Luca Bruno, File)

As France guarantees the right to abortion, other European countries look to expand access

France has become the only country to explicitly guarantee the right to abortion in its constitution and other Europeans wonder whether a rollback of rights like the 2022 U.S.

French Prime Minister Gabriel Attal, center, speaks during the Congress of both Houses of Parliament at the Palace of Versailles as President of the National Assembly Yael Braun-Pivet sits behind him in Versailles, west of Paris, Monday, March 4, 2024. French lawmakers gather at the Palace of Versailles for a historic vote that will make abortion a constitutional right. (AP Photo/Thomas Padilla)

France becomes the only country to explicitly guarantee abortion as a constitutional right

French lawmakers have overwhelmingly approved a bill to enshrine abortion rights in France’s constitution, making it the only country to explicitly guarantee a woman’s right to voluntarily terminate a pregnancy..

FILE - Boxes of the drug mifepristone sit on a shelf at the West Alabama Women's Center in Tuscaloosa, Ala., on March 16, 2022. Drugstore chains CVS Health and Walgreens plan to start dispensing the abortion pill mifepristone in a few states. CVS Health will start filling prescriptions for the medication in Rhode Island and neighboring Massachusetts “in the weeks ahead,” spokeswoman Amy Thibault said Friday, March 1, 2024. (AP Photo/Allen G. Breed, File)

CVS and Walgreens plan to start dispensing abortion pill mifepristone soon

Drugstore chains CVS Health and Walgreens plan to start dispensing the abortion pill mifepristone in a few states.

FILE - Sarah Zarr, left, from Students for Life of America, and Melanie Salazar, from the Progressive Anti-Abortion Uprising, stand inside the Texas State Capitol Rotunda to protest an International Women's Day Sit-In for Abortion Rights, Wednesday, March 8, 2023, in Austin, Texas. The state of abortion access in the U.S. remains in flux with an accusation against Planned Parenthood in Missouri and a plan to educate doctors headed to the governor in South Dakota. (Sara Diggins/Austin American-Statesman via AP, File)

What to know about the latest court rulings, data and legislation on abortion in the US

A judge in Montana ruled against restrictions in one of several developments this week on how abortion works in the U.S. since Roe v. Wade was overturned.

FILE - Hundreds gather for a protest rally for in vitro fertilization legislation Feb. 28, 2024, in Montgomery, Ala. The recent ruling by the Alabama Supreme Court that frozen embryos can be considered children, halting IVF treatments in the state, is a clear example of why races for state supreme courts will be among the most expensive and hotly contested this year. State high court seats will be on the ballot in more than 30 states, and several of those races have the potential to flip political control of the court. (Mickey Welsh/The Montgomery Advertiser via AP, File)

Alabama IVF ruling highlights importance of state supreme court races in this year’s US elections

The recent ruling in Alabama that frozen embryos are legally considered children has created a political firestorm after the decision halted treatment for many couples trying to have families through fertility treatments.

FILE - Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey speaks to reporters in Jefferson City, Mo., Jan. 3, 2023. Bailey filed a lawsuit on Thursday, Feb. 29, 2024, that seeks an injunction against Planned Parenthood Great Plains. The suit accuses the organization of transporting minors to Kansas for abortions without parental consent, in violation of Missouri law. (AP Photo/David A. Lieb, File)

Missouri is suing Planned Parenthood based on a conservative group’s sting video

Missouri’s attorney general has filed a lawsuit accusing Planned Parenthood of illegally taking minors into Kansas to obtain abortions without parental consent.

FILE - Republican Gov. Greg Gianforte signs a bill, April 26, 2021, that bans abortions after 20 weeks gestational age as bill sponsor Rep. Lola Sheldon-Galloway, R-Great Falls, looks on in Helena, Mont. A Montana judge ruled on Thursday, Feb. 29, 2024, that Sheldon-Galloway's bill and two others restricting abortion that were passed by the Republican-controlled Legislature in 2021 are unconstitutional. (Thom Bridge/Independent Record via AP, File)

Montana judge declares 3 laws restricting abortion unconstitutional, including a 20-week limit

A Montana judge has declared that three state laws restricting abortion access are unconstitutional, including a ban on abortions beyond 20 weeks of gestation.

FILE - Abortion rights demonstrators attend a rally at the Texas state Capitol in Austin, Texas, May 14, 2022. In news reports Thursday, Feb. 29, 2024, a prosecutor whose office charged a woman with murder for a self-managed abortion in 2022 has been disciplined for his role in the case. (AP Photo/Eric Gay, File)

Texas prosecutor is fined for allowing murder charges against a woman who self-managed an abortion

A Texas prosecutor whose office filed murder charges against a woman who self-managed an abortion has been disciplined and fined.

The South Dakota Senate begins a floor session, Thursday, Feb. 22, 2024, at the state Capitol in Pierre, S.D. The Senate on Thursday, Feb. 29, approved a bill mandating an informational video on the state's abortion laws. The House previously passed the same bill, which now goes to Gov. Kristi Noem. (AP Photo/Jack Dura)

South Dakota Republican lawmakers want clarity for the state’s abortion laws. They propose a video

South Dakota’s Republican-controlled Legislature has approved the creation of a video to outline the state’s abortion laws and to clarify when health care providers are legally allowed to intervene.

FILE - Activists mark the first anniversary of the Supreme Court's decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization, by displaying neon signage in support of abortion access in front of the Supreme Court on June 23, 2023, in Washington. A report finds the total number of monthly abortions in the U.S. increased after state bans started kicking in in 2022. (AP Photo/Nathan Howard, File)

About as many abortions are happening in the US monthly as before Roe was overturned, report finds

The number of monthly abortions in the U.S. is similar to what it was before the nation’s top court overturned the right to abortion.

FILE - This Thursday, Dec. 11, 2014 file photo shows a general view of France's Senate prior to a vote on the recognition of a Palestinian state, Paris. France's Senate is to vote on Wednesday on a bill meant to enshrine a woman's right to an abortion in the French Constitution, a measure promised by President Emmanuel Macron following a rollback on rulings in the United States. (AP Photo/Francois Mori, File)

French Senate approves a bill to make abortion a constitutional right

France’s Senate has adopted a bill meant to enshrine a woman’s right to an abortion in the French Constitution, clearing a major hurdle.

FILE - Students walk down a hallway at a high school in Iowa, Dec. 19, 2006. West Virginia's Republican-majority Senate green-lit a bill Tuesday, Feb. 27, 2024, that would make a video on fetal development funded by an anti-abortion group to be required viewing in public schools. (Scott Morgan/The Hawk Eye via AP, File)

West Virginia Senate OKs bill requiring schools to show anti-abortion group fetal development video

West Virginia’s Republican-led Senate has greenlit a bill that would make a video on fetal development produced by an anti-abortion group required viewing in public schools.

FILE - Exterior of the Kentucky State Capitol in Frankfort, Ky., Tuesday, Jan. 14, 2020. Legislation aimed at easing Kentucky's near-total abortion ban by creating limited exceptions for pregnancies caused by rape or incest was introduced Monday, Feb. 26, 2024, in the GOP-dominated House, as lawmakers wrangle with an issue at the forefront of the previous year's campaign for governor. (AP Photo/Timothy D. Easley, File)

Bill filed in Kentucky House would ease near-total abortion ban by adding rape and incest exceptions

Legislation aimed at easing Kentucky’s near-total abortion ban by creating limited exceptions for pregnancies caused by rape or incest has been introduced in the GOP-dominated House.

FILE - California Gov. Gavin Newsom speaks during a Clean California event in San Francisco, Nov. 9, 2023. On Sunday, Feb. 25, 2024, Newsom announced an advertising campaign to combat proposals in several Republican-controlled states that he said are designed to prohibit out-of-state travel for abortions and other reproductive care. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu, File)

California governor launches ads to fight abortion travel bans

California Gov. Gavin Newsom has announced an ad campaign urging voters in several Republican-controlled states to speak up against laws designed to prohibit out-of-state travel for abortions.

FILE - Rep. Justin Jones, D-Nashville, speaks outside the House chamber after the State of the State address Feb. 5, 2024, in Nashville, Tenn. Disagreements over abortion rights, gun control and treatment of racial minorities are just some of the issues that have caused several political leaders to say they can’t take an oath or recite the Pledge of Allegiance. In Tennessee, Jones earlier this month declined to lead the pledge during a legislative floor session. (AP Photo/George Walker IV, File)

Oaths and pledges have been routine for political officials. That’s changing in a polarized America

Elected officials throughout modern American history have sworn oaths to uphold constitutions and pledged allegiance to the flag without much controversy.