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Vice President Harris speaks to reporters after her visit to a Planned Parenthood clinic in Saint Paul, Minn. on March 14.

Politics & Government

Harris visited an abortion clinic, a first for any president or vice president

5:54pm March 14, 2024

by Deepa Shivaram

Vice President Harris toured a Minnesota abortion clinic during a trip to the Twin Cities on Thursday. It's believed to be a first for a vice president or president.

The scene at the U.S. Supreme Court on the day it overturned Roe v. Wade in June 2022. Researchers estimate that 64,565 rape-caused pregnancies have occurred in states that banned abortion since then.

Raped, pregnant and in an abortion ban state? Researchers gauge how often it happens

4:36pm January 24, 2024

by Selena Simmons-Duffin

Researchers estimate nearly 65,000 rape-caused pregnancies have happened in states with abortion bans in effect since Roe v. Wade was overturned. The report is in JAMA Internal Medicine.

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Elizabeth Weller speaks at a press conference in Austin, Texas on July 19. She's one of 20 women suing the state after being denied abortions despite serious pregnancy complications.

Health & Safety

'Jane Roe' is anonymous no more. The very public fight against abortion bans in 2023

8:58am December 26, 2023

As the first full year since Roe v. Wade was overturned closes, the abortion landscape in the U.S. has changed legally, politically and medically.

Map: Estimated change in number of abortions performed, 2020 vs. Jan-June 2023

Health & Safety

New state abortion numbers show increases in some surprising places

8:13am September 07, 2023

by Selena Simmons-Duffin

What happened to abortion numbers since Roe v. Wade fell? The Guttmacher Institute has new state-by-state numbers that show people are traveling for the procedure.

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Abortion bans are fueling a rise in high-risk patients heading to Illinois hospitals

11:10am August 23, 2023

by Kristen Schorsch

Illinois hospitals are seeing a surge of out-of-state patients who need abortion care at a hospital due to medical complications. But hospital-based abortions are more costly and harder to arrange.

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Protesters make their way to the Wisconsin Capitol Rotunda during a march to support overturning Wisconsin's near total ban on abortion on Jan. 22 in Madison, Wis.

Politics & Government

In its first ad of the 2024 cycle, Planned Parenthood pins GOP candidates on abortion

5:54pm August 22, 2023

by Sarah McCammon

As Republicans take the debate stage in Milwaukee, Planned Parenthood is launching ads on social media and streaming services quoting their positions on abortion.

Louie Villasana, who just turned 1, with dad, Luis Fernando Villasana, and mom, Samantha Casiano.

In post-Roe Texas, 2 mothers with traumatic pregnancies walk very different paths

4:00am July 04, 2023

by Selena Simmons-Duffin

The state's abortion bans make no exceptions for fatal fetal anomalies. Two women had devastating pregnancy diagnoses — one could leave the state for an abortion, and the other could not.

Demonstrators protest about abortion outside the Supreme Court in Washington, June 24, 2022. In the year since, approximately 22 million women, girls and other people of reproductive age now live in states where abortion access is heavily restricted or totally inaccessible.

Health & Safety

A year after Dobbs and the end of Roe v. Wade, there's chaos and confusion

6:00am June 24, 2023

by Vanessa Romo

With states empowered to regulate abortion, doctors say they're trapped by vague laws that criminalize care. And ongoing court battles make it hard to keep up with the procedure's legal status.

The Supreme Court overturned the constitutional right to abortion on June 24, 2022.

New abortion laws changed their lives. 8 very personal stories

5:00am June 23, 2023

by NPR Staff

After the Supreme Court ruled a year ago to overturn Roe v. Wade, more than a dozen states acted to outlaw abortion or severely restrict access. Here's how those laws affected the lives of residents.

Anna drove 40 minutes from her home to pick up free diapers from Tere Haring at Allied Women's Center in San Antonio. Anna, who is pregnant with her seventh child, says she did consider abortion: "All I could think about — like, I need an abortion because there's no way I can deal with everything going on right now and taking care of all the boys by myself and having another baby."

They tried and failed to get an abortion. Texas family grapples with what it'll mean

4:48pm June 22, 2023

by Katia Riddle

Anna and Tony have six kids and are expecting a seventh. They couldn't afford to travel to where abortion is legal. With few places to turn to for help, they're worried about their family's future.

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