Though Trump has touted his role in helping overturn Roe v. Wade, there were tensions between him and the anti-abortion movement over a national abortion ban.
While Delaware's protections, known as shield laws, protect against "out-of-state investigations and prosecutions, professional discipline and civil liability related to reproductive health care," according to UCLA's Center on Reproductive Health, Law and Policy, the ACLU said the laws don't protect against action taken by the federal government.
Donald Trump’s transition team is quietly strategizing how to assuage the anti-abortion wing of the Republican Party amid concerns that Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s past comments supporting abortion access could complicate his confirmation as the president-elect’s pick to lead the Department of Health and Human Services.
In their new book We Choose To, Dr. Curtis Boyd and Glenna Halvorson-Boyd reflect on their decades helping women who needed abortions—before, during, and after Roe.
The conservative Catholic family chooses to live their anti- abortion beliefs through adoption, foster-parenting and raising their children to believe in the sanctity of life. They’re also committed to teaching their children about political candidates they see as aligned with their beliefs.
Sales of birth control and emergency contraception -- morning-after pills like Plan B and Restart -- have spiked since President-elect Donald Trump’s victory, despite his assurances he won’t try to roll back access.
Kamala Harris' overemphasis on abortion as a political issue and her attempt to overextend it led to her campaign's failure, as exit polling showed a near-perfect split on the issue and Trump's position of leaving abortion to the states.
Arizonans overwhelmingly voted to make abortion a fundamental right, but overturning the state’s current 15-week gestational ban — and multiple other anti-abortion laws still on the books — isn’t automatic.
Despite his campaign promises to leave the issue to the states, President-elect Donald Trump’s administration will shape the national landscape around abortion and reproductive health.
The Markup presents a guide to keeping someone's plans private through every step of an abortion in any state, including Florida and South Dakota.
Maggy Krell, a former prosecutor from Sacramento, won a seat in the California Assembly by a landslide while campaigning for abortion rights in Nevada.
The leader of Planned Parenthood Great Plains says the move is a ploy to prevent a Jackson County judge from potentially knocking down other abortion restrictions. Andrew Bailey says his office will continue to enforce laws requiring parental consent and outlawing coercion.