Abortion rights

National

With Roe overturned, state constitutions are now at the center of the abortion fight

10:58am June 29, 2022

by Becky Sullivan

In a sense, what was one battleground has become 50, as advocates on both sides of the abortion issue race to put the issue before state constitutions. Half a dozen lawsuits are already in court.

District Attorney José Garza, pictured in Austin, Texas, in 2021. He is one of nearly 90 elected prosecutors from across the country who has publicly pledged not to prosecute those seeking or providing abortions.

This Texas district attorney is one of dozens who have vowed not to prosecute abortion

10:43am June 29, 2022

by Rachel Treisman

Nearly 90 elected prosecutors from both blue and red states pledged not to prosecute those who seek or provide abortions. One Texas DA says that's because their jobs are about keeping people safe.

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Pope Francis greets Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., and her husband, Paul, on Wednesday before celebrating a Mass on the Solemnity of Saints Peter and Paul in St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican. Pelosi received Communion during the papal Mas

Pelosi receives Communion in the Vatican, despite her home archbishop refusing it

10:03am June 29, 2022

by The Associated Press

The head of the church in San Francisco has said the House Speaker can't receive the sacrament there because of her abortion rights support, but Pope Francis has avoided politicizing the Eucharist.

Protesters hold up signs during an abortion-rights rally on Saturday in Austin, Texas.

Adolescents faced obstacles getting abortions. The Supreme Court just made it harder

11:49am June 28, 2022

by Joe Hernandez

The legal and logistical obstacles young people face in accessing reproductive health care became more complicated with the overturning of Roe v. Wade, experts say.

Gov. Gretchen Whitmer speaks to abortion-rights protesters Friday at a rally outside the state capitol in Lansing, Mich., following the Supreme Court's decision to overturn Roe v. Wade.

Michigan shapes up as one of the next abortion battlefronts

10:25am June 28, 2022

by Christopher Dean Hopkins

Gov. Gretchen Whitmer tells NPR that abortion-rights supporters are fighting on all fronts to keep a 1931 ban from going back into effect.

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Abortion rights demonstrator Elizabeth White leads a chant in response to the Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization ruling in front of the U.S. Supreme Court on June 24, 2022.

Frustration at Biden and other Democrats grows among abortion-rights supporters

10:25am June 28, 2022

by Danielle Kurtzleben

While abortion-rights supporters have focused their anger at the Supreme Court, but there was plenty aimed at Democrats who they feel let them down.

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Abortion-rights protesters and anti-abortion protesters gather Sunday outside the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington.

National

Around the nation, demonstrators show support for abortion rights

6:20pm June 26, 2022

by Laura Benshoff

As nearly two dozen states move to ban or restrict access to abortion following Friday's Supreme Court decision overturning Roe v. Wade, reproductive rights protests continued across the country.

President Biden addresses the nation Friday following the U.S. Supreme Court's decision to overturn Roe v. Wade.

Biden must take stronger action on abortion, Senate Democrats say

7:17pm June 25, 2022

by Sarah McCammon

With Roe v. Wade overturned, Senate Democrats want Biden to use presidential power to ease abortion access and protect those who seek the procedures. But he has limited options.

Abortion rights supporters march to the Supreme Court as part of a rally pegged to the Juneteenth holiday weekend.

On Juneteenth weekend, Black activists march for abortion rights

8:16am June 19, 2022

by Sarah McCammon

Black abortion rights leaders say reproductive justice and racial justice are inextricably connected.

New data from the Guttmacher Institute shows the number of U.S. abortions rose in 2020, reversing a decades-long trend toward declining numbers. Pictured here is a Planned Parenthood center in 2018 in Chicago, Illinois — a state whose increase in aborti

With Roe on the precipice, Americans are having more abortions

12:23pm June 15, 2022

by Sarah McCammon

New data from the Guttmacher Institute shows the number of abortions rose in 2020, reversing a decades-long trend toward declining numbers.