‘Patients cannot go to court to challenge a law while hemorrhaging,’ lawsuit says

The Louisiana Legislature gave final approval Thursday to a bill that would label two drugs used to induce labor and treat miscarriages as “controlled dangerous substances,” despite opposition from a broad group of medical professionals.

Minnesota lawmakers last year passed a sweeping law protecting abortion rights and making Minnesota a reproductive rights refuge in the Upper Midwest. But the U.S. Supreme Court is considering a case whose outcome could still limit access to an abortion pill despite Minnesota’s protections.

The latest news impacting reproductive rights around the country.

Aid Access partners with abortion providers who can prescribe abortion medication to anyone who needs it, including users in restricted states.

Plan C has been a resource for those seeking abortion medication information online since before Roe v. Wade was overturned.

The former vice president has previously said abortion opponents 'must not rest and must not relent' until there are bans all across the country and abortion care is made 'unthinkable.'

A new poll found that a nationwide ban on the drug mifepristone is overwhelmingly unpopular — including among Republicans.

The new limits to the abortion pill's use will take effect Saturday unless the court acts before then.

If the FDA approval for mifepristone is blocked, some abortion care providers across the country may have to stop offering medication abortion altogether.

Officials in Washington, California, New York and Massachusetts have announced purchases of mifepristone and misoprostol.

The Department of Justice appealed a federal judge’s ruling that the FDA had illegally approved mifepristone 23 years ago.

Anti-abortion lawmakers have increasingly tried to normalize a practice in recent years that most medical professionals deem unethical and non-scientific.

Patients who are miscarrying face so much ‘chaos and fear’ as states tighten abortion restrictions, Sen. Mazie Hirono said in urging Danco Laboratories to petition the FDA for the change.

‘The same amount of people still need abortions as they did before they started all these bans,’ Amy Hagstrom Miller of Whole Woman’s Health said.

Doctors have called for an end to mandatory ultrasounds ahead of abortions.

The ruling is a victory for abortion rights advocates, who are facing broad challenges nationswide.

South Dakota GOP Gov. Kristi Noem is also hoping to restrict access to the telehealth procedure in her state.

Research shows the procedure is extremely safe and allows an alternative to in-office care. 

Rep. Chip Roy (R-TX) has debuted a bill that would defund every public university in California.

People are turning increasingly to self-managed medication abortions.

The impact of this type of ban could be especially disastrous for a state as large and sparsely populated as Wyoming.

Republicans are attacking the safest way to get an abortion during the pandemic.