Abortion access
Abortion Ballot Measures Seen as Critical — but Tricky — Strategy
Read more Stateline coverage on how states are either protecting or curbing access to abortions. The landslide victory for abortion rights in a Kansas primary election this month was the first direct expression of voter sentiment on the issue since the U.S. Supreme Court overturned the nearly 50-year-old constitutional right to abortion in June. Even abortion rights […]
North Carolina and Florida Become Southern Abortion Havens
Read more Stateline coverage on how states are either protecting or curbing access to abortions. In the month since the U.S. Supreme Court ended the federal right to abortion, red states in the Deep South have been one-by-one criminalizing nearly all abortions. As of this week, most abortions are banned in Alabama, Georgia, Mississippi and South Carolina. […]
Abortion Medications Set to Become Next Legal Battlefield
Read more Stateline coverage on how states are either protecting or curbing access to abortions. In the nearly three weeks since the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, abortion has become illegal in at least 10 states, with more states to follow in the weeks ahead. That means doctors and other health care providers in those […]
Abortion Rights Hacktivists Strike States with Bans
An abortion rights hacktivist group says it launched cyberattacks against Arkansas and Kentucky state governments and leaked files from their servers to protest their bans on abortion after the U.S. Supreme Court’s recent decision to overturn Roe v. Wade. The group, which calls itself SiegedSec, said it hacked the two states because it was angry […]
Liberal Prosecutors in Red States Vow Not to Enforce Abortion Bans
Editor’s note: This story has been updated to reflect the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization. Read more Stateline coverage on how states are either protecting or curbing access to abortions. Now that the U.S. Supreme Court has overturned Roe v. Wade, more than half of all states are poised […]
Abortion Bans May Add to Uncertainty Over Embryo Donation
Abigail and Rachelle Henderson, 15-year-old twins from Buffalo, New York, were conceived in vitro and carried to term by their mom, Rebecca. Trevor and Aubrey Gassman, now 9 and 8 years old, who live in Oregon, were born of embryos created during the infertility treatment of Rebecca Henderson and her husband, Chris. The couple donated […]
State Courts Could Overturn Abortion Bans in Red States
Read more Stateline coverage on how states are either protecting or curbing access to abortions. If the federal right to abortion is erased by the U.S. Supreme Court in a few weeks as expected, the legal spotlight will shift immediately to state courts, where experts say judges in some conservative states could surprise everyone and […]
Some States Already Are Targeting Birth Control
Last year, conservative Republicans in the Missouri legislature took a run at blocking Medicaid funding from going to Planned Parenthood, a frequent and prominent target of anti-abortion activists and politicians. But in the fine print of their measure, those Republicans revealed that their ambition wasn’t only to target a familiar abortion foe. They were going […]
After Leaked Roe Ruling, GOP Weighs Stricter Abortion Bans
If, as expected, the U.S. Supreme Court decides as early as next month to overturn Roe v. Wade, just how quickly Republican-dominated legislatures will act to restrict abortion and how far they will go to eliminate the procedure is uncertain. But recent rhetoric from state officials and events in state capitols offer some clues. GOP […]
More States Shield Against Rogue Abortion Prosecutions
Editor’s note: This story has been updated to correct Farah Diaz-Tello’s name and title. Last month, 26-year-old Lizelle Herrera was arrested in Texas and charged with murder over a self-induced abortion. A hospital had reported the abortion to law enforcement. But prosecutors later acknowledged she shouldn’t have been prosecuted and dropped the charge. “In reviewing […]
Blue States Enact New Laws to Create Abortion Havens
If the U.S. Supreme Court decides in June, as expected, that all states can limit abortions to the earliest stages of pregnancy or ban the procedure altogether, hundreds of thousands of Americans are likely to start traveling to states where abortion remains legal. In preparation, lawmakers in those states are considering bills that would remove […]