Biden just signed the largest executive order focused on women’s health
President Joe Biden on Monday signed an executive order directing the most comprehensive set of actions ever taken by the president’s office to expand and improve research on women’s health. In a...
View ArticleA Democratic state senator needs an abortion. She told her colleagues about...
Arizona’s anti-abortion laws impact women across the Grand Canyon State, and one Democratic state senator spoke out about how those laws have hurt her as she seeks to end an unviable pregnancy, urging...
View ArticleBlack LGBTQ+ youth need spaces that embrace them fully, researchers say
Twenty-one percent of Black trans, nonbinary and questioning youth have made a suicide attempt in the last year, nearly half said they felt unsafe at school, and 64 percent said they had encountered...
View ArticleMany people now rely on telehealth to access abortion pills — but the Supreme...
A Supreme Court battle that will play out next week over how patients access mifepristone — one of the two drugs used in a medication abortion — could have sweeping consequences for Americans,...
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Missouri doulas give up wages to serve women on Medicaid. Legislators hope to...
Christian King watched her sister lie sick in a hospital bed for days after suffering a placental abruption while giving birth. Finally, after their mother pleaded with hospital staff to run more...
View ArticlePharmaceutical companies worry the Supreme Court’s abortion pill ruling could...
A Supreme Court case over whether to tighten restrictions on mifepristone – one of two drugs used in the medication abortion regimen – could destabilize the American pharmaceutical industry, deterring...
View ArticleThe 19th Explains: How the Supreme Court could further limit abortion
In its first major abortion case since overturning Roe v. Wade, the Supreme Court will hear arguments Tuesday over whether to restrict access to a drug called mifepristone, one of two medications...
View ArticleThe 19th Explains: What is the Comstock Act?
Anti-abortion activists have embraced an 1873 anti-obscenity law known as the Comstock Act in their efforts to further limit access to the procedure. The law hasn’t been enforced in decades, and its...
View ArticleTighter regulations are reducing the risk of lead exposure in public housing
A new study suggests that lead inspection and removal regulations for public housing have been effective over time, reducing the risk of lead exposure for residents. After decades of high lead levels...
View ArticleSupreme Court seems skeptical anti-abortion doctors can challenge abortion...
In the first abortion-related case before the Supreme Court since its 2022 decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, a majority of the justices appeared to express skepticism that a coalition of anti-abortion...
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Is ‘Baby Olivia’ headed to a school near you? Bills in several states would...
Aftyn Behn hoped that this would be the year the Tennessee legislature was free of bills related to the anti-abortion movement. Since it is now illegal to terminate pregnancies in the state, the...
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Even where abortion is legal, people in jail face huge barriers
This article was published in partnership with The Marshall Project, a nonprofit news organization covering the U.S. criminal justice system. Sign up for their newsletters, and follow them on...
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Survivors sidelined: How Illinois’ sexual assault survivor law allows...
This article was co-published with APM Reports, an investigative and documentaries unit affiliated with American Public Media. In September 2021, a 4-year-old girl’s babysitter caught her touching...
View ArticleThe federal government will now offer its employees generous fertility benefits
Companies have increasingly offered generous fertility benefits to attract and keep top-notch workers. Now, the federal government is getting in on the act. Starting this year, federal employees can...
View ArticleThis Planned Parenthood will start offering sedation for IUD insertion
A Planned Parenthood in Illinois will be the first clinic in the greater St. Louis area to start offering optional sedation for patients having intrauterine devices (IUDs) inserted. Colleen...
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‘A crisis of conscience’: Idaho OBGYNs are leaving the state after strict...
Idaho, already in a doctor shortage, is losing doctors who specialize in obstetrics and gynecology. In a presentation at the Idaho State Capitol Building on Wednesday, Idaho medical leaders say the...
View ArticleArizona upholds an 1864 ban on abortion — making it illegal in the state
Abortion will be almost completely illegal in Arizona following a ruling issued Tuesday by the state’s Supreme Court that upholds a ban passed in 1864. The law, passed decades before Arizona became a...
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To close the racial gap in maternal health, some states take aim at implicit...
Countless times, Kenda Sutton-El, a Virginia doula, has witnessed her Black pregnant clients being dismissed or ignored by clinicians. One woman was told by doctors that swelling, pain and warmth in...
View ArticleAbortion bans and divorce restrictions can be a dangerous combination for...
Four states restrict divorce during pregnancy, and, with a decision by the Arizona Supreme Court this week, now all four also have near-total bans on abortion. It’s a combination that can be fatal,...
View ArticleWith Florida and Arizona bans looming, money’s getting tight for abortion...
With Florida set to enforce a six-week abortion ban as early as May 1 and a near-total prohibition taking effect soon after in Arizona, staffers at abortion funds say they won’t be able to meet the...
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