ROE V. WADE

Vice President Kamala Harris spoke at the 28th Essence Festival in New Orleans about issues facing Black women.

A clash between abortion supporters and opponents broke out during an abortion rally in New York on Saturday.

The Texas Supreme Court has blocked a lower court order that had allowed clinics in the state to continue performing abortions even after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned its landmark 1973 ruling that confirmed a constitutional right to abortion.

The Texas Supreme Court has blocked a lower court order that gave some abortion clinics confidence to resume performing abortions. The order handed down Friday night by the state’s highest court comes just days after some abortion providers rushed to resume services.

The evolving legal landscape around abortion access is causing confusion for providers and patients across the country after the overturning of Roe v. Wade.

Millions of people’s lives changed Friday, June 24th. The Supreme Court of the United States announced its decision to overturn Roe v. Wade.  That means there’s no more constitutional guarantee of abortion rights and it’s up to each individual state to decide the legality of abortions.  The reasoning behind it: our country’s “history and traditions,” according to the Supreme...

In striking down Roe v. Wade, the Supreme Court cited “history and tradition.” What exactly does that history look like? To find out, LX News Storyteller Jalyn Henderson talked with Leslie Jean Reagan, who teaches Women and Gender Studies at the University of Illinois – Urbana Champagne and authored “When Abortion Was a Crime.”

The House Democrat who introduced a bill last year to enshrine abortion rights into federal law was among more than 180 protesters arrested Thursday during a pro-abortion rights rally near the Supreme Court. Rep. Judy Chu of California was participating in a civil disobedience rally on Capitol grounds, “where she was subsequently arrested alongside other activists,” her office said in a news...

President Joe Biden on Thursday said he would support an exception to the Senate filibuster to protect abortion access.

President Joe Biden said Thursday that he would support an exception to the Senate filibuster to protect abortion access, a shift that comes as Democrats coalesce around an election-year message intended to rally voters who are outraged or deflated by the Supreme Court decision overturning Roe v. Wade. Although Democrats already control the Senate by the narrowest of margins, there…

After recent rulings including one overturning the nearly 50-year-old Roe v. Wade decision, public confidence in the Supreme Court is down, according to recent polling from Monmouth University. Many of the court’s June rulings involved religion as well, and the court’s conservative majority is “solidly in line on certain moral issues and religion issues in general,” says Shlomo Pill, an...

Arizona’s Republican attorney general says a total ban on abortions that has been on the books since before statehood can be enforced.

The Supreme Court’s ruling allowing states to regulate abortion has set off a travel scramble in some parts of the U.S.,  as abortion providers redirect patients to states that still allow the procedure.

Meghan Markle wants to end the social stigma surrounding miscarriages.

CPCs have long been accused of providing what experts have called “misleading or false” information to discourage women from getting abortions

A rare Republican who supports abortion rights found success in Colorado in the first primary elections held since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade.

Hate mail intended for Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito is ending up on the wrong doorstep in New Jersey, harassing a family with no ties to the justice who hasn’t lived in the home for more than a decade.

Two of Congress’ staunchest conservatives repelled more centrist challengers to lock up Republican nominations on Tuesday.

A federal court has allowed Tennessee to ban abortions as early as six weeks into pregnancy. Texas is already enforcing a six-week ban, but a judge Tuesday temporarily blocked an even stricter decades-old law from taking effect. The moves embody a flurry of activity that was set off at courthouses across the country after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe...

With abortion now or soon to be illegal in over a dozen states and severely restricted in many more, Big Tech companies that vacuum up personal details of their users are facing new calls to limit that tracking and surveillance. One fear is that law enforcement or vigilantes could use those data troves against people seeking ways to end unwanted...