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

The administrative upheaval in the St. Louis city schools, Wesley Bell's defeat of Cori Bush and passage of an abortion rights measure are among the major local and Missouri stories

Protesters and clinic escorts gathered outside EMW Women’s Surgical Center in Louisville in 2022 before abortion was banned in Kentucky. (Photo by Deborah Yetter) LaDonna Prince’s new reproductive care clinic in Illinois was supposed to be open more ...

Galvanized by a pivotal election almost two years after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned federal abortion protections, patients, doctors, and activists in 2024 fought for renewed and expanded reproductive rights,

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.

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,

Tennessee has a nearly total abortion ban and a porous safety net for mothers and young children. GOP state leaders in Tennessee and other states that banned abortion after the U.S.

In Missouri, decades of laws restricted access to abortion even before lawmakers passed a near-total ban. Abortion figures to be particularly difficult to access for women in rural parts of the state.

States with restrictive abortion laws generally have more porous safety nets for mothers and young children, according to recent research and an analysis by The Associated Press. Tennessee is an example of how this plays out.

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.

Patients, doctors, and activists in 2024 fought for renewed and expanded reproductive rights, while others pushed for more restrictions.