ABORTION

A judge paused South Carolina's six-week abortion ban while a challenge makes its way to the state's Supreme Court, he said.

More than a dozen states have laws that criminalize abortion when the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade. Here’s a look at abortion laws by state.

An earlier effort to tightly restrict abortions in South Carolina was deemed unconstitutional by the state Supreme Court.

Ron DeSantis spent about 20 seconds on abortion restrictions during a 40-minute address to a gala for a major advocate of Florida’s new six-week ban.

GOP lawmakers in North Carolina and Nebraska are casting new 12-week bans as “mainstream,” while Democrats say they are “cruel and extreme”

Milo Evan Dorbert, whose mother’s pregnancy tested the interpretation of Florida’s new abortion law, was born with a fatal abnormality. He lived 99 minutes.

Here are the positions of the leading 2024 Democratic and Republican presidential candidates on abortion, as well as those making moves to enter the race.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit heard the full appeal Wednesday of a Texas judge's ruling to block access to the abortion pill mifepristone.

Researchers collected 50 examples of pregnancy-related complications where new abortion laws impacted the standard of care

The North Carolina governor, a Democrat, has vetoed the state's 12-week abortion ban but the state legislature could still override his action.

The effort, led by the Planned Parenthood Action Fund and two of its Florida affiliates, would allow voters to decide whether the state should allow abortions until a fetus is viable.

GOP lawmakers are hoping to exploit a new veto-proof supermajority in a state that has become a critical access point for abortions.

The South Carolina bill was stopped by five women, three Republicans and two Democrats. The Nebraska bill went down due to an 80-year-old male Republican.

In a little-noted legal article in 2004, Carlos Muñiz, then a private attorney and now chief justice, affirmed that abortion rights are protected by the Florida Constitution's privacy clause.

The law, one of the strictest in the country, permits abortions only in cases of rape or incest within six weeks of pregnancy, or if there is a "serious" health risk to the patient.

The Supreme Court has preserved full access to mifepristone, the abortion pill. Here's the background and what's at stake.

The battle over whether to permanently restrict mifepristone, and whether the FDA properly approved use of the drug more than 20 years ago, continues.

The Supreme Court ruling on mifepristone retains full access to the abortion pill for the time being. Read the Court's full decision here.