Attorney, editor, and writer who has worked in the areas of First Amendment, education, and labor law. Follow her on Twitter @snipy.
By nearly every metric, the United States is doing very poorly when it comes to maternal and infant health.
By Lisa Needham - November 18, 2021
And it found that marginalized groups are likely to be hit hardest by the ban.
By Lisa Needham - November 16, 2021
The ruling is a victory for abortion rights advocates, who are facing broad challenges nationswide.
By Lisa Needham - November 10, 2021
New analysis shows non-Hispanic Black people will be disproportionately impacted if activists and legislators succeed at banning abortion entirely.
By Lisa Needham - November 03, 2021
As of Monday morning, abortions remain nearly totally banned in Texas.
By Lisa Needham - October 18, 2021
A Kentucky case that presents a major challenge to abortion access has largely flown under the radar.
By Lisa Needham - October 12, 2021
Organizations like Planned Parenthood can once again provide family planning services to patients with lower incomes, thanks to changes implemented by the Biden administration.
By Lisa Needham - October 06, 2021
Activists are using amicus briefs to show that people can thrive after they have abortions.
By Lisa Needham - September 23, 2021
South Dakota GOP Gov. Kristi Noem is also hoping to restrict access to the telehealth procedure in her state.
By Lisa Needham - September 13, 2021
‘Texas enacted S.B. 8 in open defiance of the Constitution,’ the Department of Justice wrote in its complaint.
By Lisa Needham - September 10, 2021
GOP lawmakers across the country have said they also want the most restrictive abortion ban in the country implemented in their own states, including Florida, South Dakota, and Arkansas.
By Lisa Needham - September 08, 2021
Even conservative Chief Justice John Roberts dissented from the highly ‘unusual’ majority opinion.
By Lisa Needham - September 02, 2021
Abortion bans aren’t helping the state’s ‘alarming infant and maternal mortality rates.’
By Lisa Needham - August 31, 2021
Extreme abortion restrictions in conservative states do not affect all people equally.
By Lisa Needham - August 25, 2021
Research shows the procedure is extremely safe and allows an alternative to in-office care.
By Lisa Needham - August 19, 2021
COVID-19 — and Republican lawmakers — have made access to care even more precarious.
By Lisa Needham - August 10, 2021
The conservative state is still in crisis when it comes to Black maternal mortality, a new report shows.
By Lisa Needham - July 29, 2021
Research shows the unproven procedure is not only misguided but dangerous.
By Lisa Needham - July 22, 2021
Alabama was looking to make it much harder for teenagers to get abortion care.
By Lisa Needham - July 13, 2021
What’s happening in New Hampshire is indicative of just how precarious abortion access remains throughout the country.
By Lisa Needham - July 09, 2021
A policy analyst at the Guttmacher Institute said an upcoming Supreme Court case could ‘basically create two Americas when it comes to abortion.’
By Lisa Needham - July 01, 2021
Earlier this year, the Supreme Court agreed to hear a case about Mississippi’s previability ban.
By Lisa Needham - June 23, 2021
The program will receive $100 million in the next financial year, up from $20 million in 2017.
By Lisa Needham - June 14, 2021
People are turning increasingly to self-managed medication abortions.
By Lisa Needham - June 04, 2021
It turns out that reducing access to health care is bad for the economy.
By Lisa Needham - June 01, 2021
GOP lawmakers openly acknowledge that they are looking to upend the precedent set by Roe v. Wade.
By Lisa Needham - May 26, 2021
There is no legitimate research that shows a medication abortion can be reversed, but that won’t stop conservative lawmakers from pushing the harmful lie.
By Lisa Needham - May 21, 2021
Louisiana taxpayers may be on the hook for over $8 million after GOP lawmakers there took an abortion case to the Supreme Court and failed. Texas is following in the state’s footsteps.
By Lisa Needham - May 06, 2021
The law was designed to bar Planned Parenthood from working with schools.
By Lisa Needham - May 06, 2021
There’s even a proposed bill that would impose the death penalty for both people who have an abortion and the providers who perform them.
By Lisa Needham - April 22, 2021