One hundred years after Margaret Sanger opened the nation’s first birth-control clinic, Republicans are still attacking Planned Parenthood.
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As Hyde Amendment Turns 40, Poll Shows Support for Its Repeal
It’s been 40 years to the day since Congress first passed the so-called Hyde Amendment that bars federal funding for abortion services, and it’s also the first year that any presidential candidate-in this case, Hillary Clinton-has campaigned on a promise to repeal that amendment if elected. It’s unclear whether Clinton’s pledge will carry much weight […]
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Indiana Court Overturns Purvi Patel’s Feticide Conviction
The Indiana Court of Appeals last week overturned the 20-year prison sentence for Purvi Patel, the first woman in the United States to be convicted under a feticide law for having an abortion. The 3-0 decision marks a victory for reproductive rights advocates, who argued that using feticide laws to convict women who end their […]
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Q&A: The Abortion Battle’s Next Phase
NARAL Pro-Choice America President Ilyse Hogue reflects on how the Supreme Court’s historic ruling to reject restrictive clinic mandates will impact abortion policy and politics.
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Turning the Anti-Abortion Tide
The Supreme Court’s Whole Woman’s Health v. Hellerstedt ruling effectively renders unconstitutional abortion restrictions in some two-dozen states, forcing abortion opponents to play defense for the first time in decades.
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SCOTUS Abortion Ruling Benefits Women of Color, Low-Income Women
The Supreme Court’s 5-3 ruling on Monday to throw out restrictive Texas abortion laws in the landmark case known as Whole Woman’s Health v. Hellerstedt is a major victory for reproductive rights advocates, who have been fighting a wave of what they call “clinic shutdown” laws nationwide. First enacted in 2013, the Texas laws rejected […]
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Will the Court Restrict Abortion to the Wealthy?
As the Supreme Court prepares to rule on Texas abortion restrictions in Whole Woman’s Health v. Hellerstedt, low-income women face the prospect that the procedure will become so costly as to be essentially illegal.
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Punishing Women for Abortion
In a new front in the emotional battle over abortion, state legislatures and courts have been imposing prison sentences on women who seek to terminate their pregnancies.
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The Conviction of Purvi Patel and the Criminalization of Abortion
Reproductive rights advocates say the case, the first of its kind, may set a dangerous precedent.
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When Abortions Are Hard to Get
As the number of state restrictions grows, self-induced procedures remain shrouded in secrecy.