Roe v. Wade

Women who sued Texas after saying they were denied abortions despite serious risks to their health are headed to court Wednesday as legal challenges to abortion bans across the U.S. continue a year after the fall of Roe v. Wade.

There are now 39 universities in 17 states with emergency contraceptive vending machines, and at least 20 more considering them, according to the American Society for Emergency Contraception.

Activists and politicians are still both praising and protesting the Supreme Court ruling one year ago that led to massive changes in abortion access.

From protecting abortion rights to proposing federal bans, here’s what some of the leading 2024 presidential candidates say about abortion in America.

President Joe Biden is banking on reproductive rights to be a galvanizing issue for voters in the 2024 election as he collects three top-level endorsements, hosts a rally and issues an executive order seeking to bolster access to contraception as the nation marks a year since the Supreme Court decision overturning federal abortion protections.

Here’s a look at what has changed since the Supreme Court struck down Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization a year ago.

Judge Clifton Newman’s ruling that put the state’s abortion law back at roughly 20 weeks came about 24 hours after Gov. Henry McMaster signed the bill into law without any notice.

More Texas women who were told they could not end pregnancies with fatal fetal anomalies or that endangered their health are challenging the state’s restrictive abortion laws.

After local leaders in rural Nevada reached an impasse over a proposed Planned Parenthood clinic, an anti-abortion activist pitching local abortion bans arrived at their remote city hall.

The Justice Department said Thursday that it will again go to the Supreme Court over abortion after a lower court ruling allowed the abortion pill mifepristone to remain available in the U.S. but reimposed past restrictions on getting and using the drug.

The extraordinary timing of the competing orders revealed the high stakes surrounding the drug nearly a year after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade and curtailed access to abortion

Anyone convicted of breaking the law would face two to five years in prison and could also be sued by the minor’s parent or guardian.

Sen. Tommy Tuberville of Alabama is stalling promotions for more than 150 generals and flag officers over a policy that funds travel costs for servicemembers seeking abortions.

The pills are already banned in 13 states with blanket bans on all forms of abortion, and 15 states already have limited access to abortion pills.

A federal judge has heard arguments in a lawsuit that poses a threat to the nationwide availability of a leading abortion medication.

A conservative federal judge in Texas heard arguments Wednesday from a Christian group seeking to overturn the FDA’s more than 2-decade-old approval of an abortion medication, in a case that could threaten the most common form of abortion in the U.S.

A lawsuit filed in Texas challenges the FDA approval of medications used to terminate a pregnancy. The judge has been asked to halt access to one drug nationwide.

The majority-Republican House approved by a 60-19 vote a proposal allowing the creation of a “monument to the unborn” on the Capitol grounds.

The Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade has added another complicated layer for college coaches to navigate.

Three women in Texas are being sued for wrongful death by a man who claims they helped his now ex-wife obtain medication for an abortion.