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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.

Activists are spreading information about self-induced abortion online and in person. The World Health Organization says a single drug, misoprostol, can be used to safely induce abortion.

The measure, which had been set to take effect July 1, had quickly drawn a legal challenge from Planned Parenthood and the ACLU of Iowa.

Scheduled to take effect on July 1, the law is one of the most restrictive abortion measures in the U.S.

The president has banned U.S. aid to any health organization in another country that performs or promotes abortion. Kenya's oldest provider of reproductive health services has already lost funding.

The report says many state laws that make it harder for women to get abortions don't have a medical purpose and can make outcomes worse.

The measure, which is poised to become law once signed by the governor, allows for exceptions only in a "medical emergency and in cases of severe fetal abnormality."

A federal trial pits the last remaining clinic providing abortions in Kentucky against the state's Republican administration, which says the center failed to meet state health standards.

The legislation criminalizes abortions that are motivated solely because of a fetus' potential disability, as well as other factors such as its sex or race.

A champion of abortion rights, the Texas gubernatorial candidate reveals she terminated two of her pregnancies — once because her life was endangered.