The Latest Breaking News from Abortion

WASHINGTON — Vice President Kamala Harris, the highest-ranking elected woman in American history, is likely to play an expanded role in pushing the Democrats’ political case on protecting abortion rights as the Supreme Court appears poised to overturn Roe v. Wade.

WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden said a draft Supreme Court opinion that leaked Monday night and appeared to reveal that a majority of five conservative justices intend to strike down Roe vs. Wade would mark a “fundamental shift” in U.S. law and could throw a “whole range of rights” related…

Governor Gavin Newsom announced the proposed amendment following the leak of a federal Supreme Court opinion indicating Roe v. Wade will be overturned.

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi led a chorus of outrage over a leaked Supreme Court opinion that would overturn the landmark Roe v. Wade decision that legalized abortion.

"The filibuster is the only protection we have in democracy," the West Virginia Democrat said

The landscape has changed in many ways since the Supreme Court's landmark Roe v

A patchwork of state laws will now govern the procedure.

People on both sides of the abortion divide have been expecting that this summer the Supreme Court would reverse the landmark 1973 Roe v

Trump’s nominees all agreed that Roe v. Wade was settled precedent during their confirmations