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Idaho will have to let pregnant people direct their own end-of-life care after all.
By Lisa Needham - April 14, 2021
Iowa’s Legislature is committed to an anti-abortion path regardless of what the people want.
By Lisa Needham - April 05, 2021
Prohibitive costs are blocking people from getting health care, but House Democrats want to change that.
By Lisa Needham - April 01, 2021
New Hampshire abortion foes are following a well-worn script to attack health care providers.
By Lisa Needham - March 29, 2021
The impact of this type of ban could be especially disastrous for a state as large and sparsely populated as Wyoming.
By Lisa Needham - March 23, 2021
It’s only March.
By Lisa Needham - March 04, 2021
The case puts access to health care at risk — but that’s not all.
By Lisa Needham - February 23, 2021
A new bill would give taxpayer dollars to a government-run online effort to dissuade people from getting abortions.
By Lisa Needham - February 19, 2021
A recently introduced bill would allow a man to seek an injunction to block an abortion just by asserting he is the father.
By Lisa Needham - February 17, 2021
And every call will be added to a database.
By Lisa Needham - February 10, 2021
Access to abortion in Texas could become even harder for some.
By Lisa Needham - February 05, 2021
They say they want to ‘preserve safeguards for women.’
By Lisa Needham - January 28, 2021
He’s working to undo a lot of the damage done by the Trump administration.
By Lisa Needham - January 22, 2021
The most violent anti-abortion extremists also signed on with QAnon and the push to overturn the election that erupted in a riot at the Capitol.
By Lisa Needham - January 21, 2021
What happened in Texas is a glimpse at the likely future of abortion access in America.
By Lisa Needham - January 18, 2021
People who want a medication abortion will once again have to go in person — during a pandemic.
By Lisa Needham - January 14, 2021
Abortion rights victories are getting more and more tenuous in the hands of the conservative Supreme Court.
By Lisa Needham - January 13, 2021
The entire judicial process highlights just how tenuous abortion access is in states like Arkansas.
By Lisa Needham - December 23, 2020
The Trump administration has placed a conservative evangelical view of ‘religious freedom’ above all other rights.
By Lisa Needham - December 19, 2020
A federal judge just handed the state another loss.
By Lisa Needham - December 16, 2020
Clinics can continue to use telehealth practices to make patient care safer during the pandemic.
By Lisa Needham - December 15, 2020
He’ll be well-positioned to roll back some of the Trump administration’s worst attacks.
By Lisa Needham - December 13, 2020
The state is putting doctors in a really uncomfortable position.
By Lisa Needham - December 08, 2020
Maternal mortality is sky-high in Alabama — and it’s mostly preventable.
By Lisa Needham - December 03, 2020
And the 6-3 supermajority of anti-abortion justices on the Supreme Court could help them.
By Lisa Needham - November 30, 2020
There’s a lot that Joe Biden can do right away to counteract Trump’s damaging policies.
By Lisa Needham - November 23, 2020
As of now, 10 states have ‘trigger laws’ that will automatically make abortion illegal if Roe v. Wade is overturned.
By Lisa Needham - November 20, 2020
When it comes to voting on abortion, Catholics’ views tend to align with those of others in their party.
By Lisa Needham - November 16, 2020
The Hyde Amendment has blocked millions of women from being able to obtain an abortion, but that could change now.
By Lisa Needham - November 15, 2020
The court’s attacks on reproductive rights won’t make abortion go away, but they could make them much less safe.
By Lisa Needham - November 08, 2020