Abortion rights

Planned Parenthood Action Fund endorses former Vice President Joe Biden despite a mixed record on abortion rights. To support Democrats, the group is boosting spending by 50% over the 2016 campaign.

"Planned Parenthood has demonstrated that it provides safe and legal abortion care," a state commission ruled. It said state health regulators wrongly blocked the St. Louis clinic's renewal in 2019.

As more healthcare moves to online and telemedicine, some patients seeking abortions using pills are running into obstacles.

A federal appeals court is reversing a lower-court order that had blocked Arkansas' suspension of abortions during the pandemic.

Planned Parenthood facilities are reporting a more than sevenfold increase in patients from Texas. The ban was put in place because of the coronavirus but having to travel can increase patients' risk.

A six-figure digital ad buy from the abortion rights group NARAL accuses President Trump and his allies of using the pandemic to restrict abortion.

Patients have been turned away for abortions after Republican state officials said an executive order suspending elective procedures during the coronavirus pandemic applies to abortions.

Republican officials in several states are trying to ban abortion during the coronavirus pandemic to preserve medical supplies.

Republican officials in several states have sought to suspend abortions during the pandemic.

Republican officials in a growing number of states say abortion is a nonessential procedure that can be delayed during the coronavirus pandemic; Democratic attorneys general are pushing back.

Groups opposed to abortion rights have signed a letter asking federal health officials to urge abortion providers to "cease operations" in an effort to preserve medical equipment.

Rep. Dan Lipinski, the moderate eight-term Democratic congressman, lost his primary to business consultant Marie Newman.