The Latest Breaking News from Abortion

Abortion care is one of the most common medical procedures in the U.S., yet even before the fall of Roe v. Wade, doctors and students had to navigate tricky legal and educational hurdles to train as abortion providers. With last month’s Supreme Court decision freeing states to ban abortions, those…

The U.S. Supreme Court has been on a tear lately, to put it mildly. It wasn't enough that the court's conservative majority upended a half-century of precedent by ending the constitutional right to abortion. It also expanded gun rights despite the ongoing trauma of mass shootings and gun violence.

As state abortion bans snap into effect after the Supreme Court’s decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, one group who will be most affected seems to be least discussed: women under criminal court control.

When law enforcement requests it, Google usually hands over location and search data collected through its smartphone apps. Will that now be used against people seeking abortions in some states?

States can now enforce laws that criminalize abortion. But a Texas law that outsources enforcement to civilians could have legal immunity that other laws don't, pushing more states to follow suit.

Opinions from Breyer, Kagan and Sotomayor send stark warning about increasingly radical court abandoning long-held principles

Clinic would provide faster access to marginalised communities who cannot travel to other states for abortions

In the days since the Supreme Court’s Dobbs decision nullified Roe v. Wade, returning the regulation of abortion back to the states, there has been a campaign of misinformation about what constitutes an abortion.

A few days after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, Boston IVF, a fertility company with centers in six states, posted a statement that speaks to the havoc this decision will wreak not just for abortions, but for other forms of reproductive care.

Labour's Monica Lennon as backing Green MSP Gillian Mackay's Private Members Bill on the issue.

US ‘gives more of a rat’s a** about the guns they’re allowed to buy that kill the children that I’m forced to give birth to’, says US army medic