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President Donald Trump’s pick to lead the Food and Drug Administration repeatedly sidestepped questions about some of the agency’s most politically charged issues Thursday, offering senators few direct answers about abortion medication, vaccines and flavored vaping products. Dr. Heidi Overton, a preventive medicine physician and White House official, repeatedly pointed …

Four years after the fall of Roe v. Wade, abortion — which defined the 2022 midterms and much of the subsequent presidential campaign — has largely receded from the spotlight as 2026 candidates focus on issues of affordability, the proliferation of data centers and the prolonged war in Iran.  But in …

A federal court ruling out of Idaho has potential implications for exceptions in abortion bans nationwide and could eventually end up before the U.S. Supreme Court to decide. U.S. District Judge B. Lynn Winmill ruled earlier this month that the 14th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution provides a narrow right …

Samuel Alito on Monday temporarily blocked a lower court order that would have sharply curtailed access to the abortion pill mifepristone, preserving for now a federal rule allowing the drug to be prescribed online and delivered by mail. The administrative stay pauses a decision from the U.S. Court of Appeals …

Abortion will remain legal in Wyoming after the state Supreme Court on Tuesday struck down laws that included the nation’s first explicit ban on abortion pills, ruling that the measures violate the state constitution. The justices sided with Wyoming’s only abortion clinic and other plaintiffs who challenged abortion bans enacted …

The Department of Veterans Affairs is reinstating a near-total ban on abortion services for veterans and their families, citing a new Justice Department legal opinion that says federal law largely prohibits the agency from providing abortions. The change follows a memo issued last week by the Justice Department’s Office of …

Senate Republicans are demanding tougher abortion restrictions in exchange for extending key Affordable Care Act funds set to expire at the end of the year, setting up another partisan clash over health care and reproductive rights. Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., said any deal to renew the enhanced ACA subsidies …

The decades-old federal law protecting the privacy of individual health information is threatened by multiple lawsuits that seek to throw out a rule restricting disclosure of information in criminal investigations, including for those seeking legal abortion and other reproductive health care. In one of the cases, the Texas federal judge …

  As state legislative sessions grind on, conservative lawmakers have filed a new batch of bills that would grant legal rights to fetuses and fertilized embryos. Lawmakers in at least eight states — Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Kentucky, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Carolina and Texas — have considered bills to go …

President Donald Trump has directed his administration to block global aid recipients from telling patients about abortion — a move that could weaken reproductive health care worldwide. The move, announced in a presidential memorandum Friday, revives a policy known as the “global gag rule” that Trump and many other Republican …

Mississippi State Senator Bradford Blackmon, a Democrat, introduced a provocative bill this week titled the “Contraception Begins at Erection Act,” aimed at sparking debate over the gender imbalance in reproductive health legislation. The bill, introduced Monday, would make it unlawful for individuals to “discharge genetic material without the intent to …

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has filed a lawsuit accusing a New York doctor of prescribing abortion drugs to a Texas resident in violation of state law. This lawsuit is the first attempt to test what happens when state abortion laws are at odds with each other. New York has …

Jennifer Shutt President-elect Donald Trump has several choices to make in the coming months about whether his second administration will keep access to contraception and abortion as it is now or implement changes. While Trump cannot on his own enact nationwide laws or abortion bans without Congress, he and the …

Jimmy Williams In a significant election outcome on Tuesday, voters across ten states weighed in on abortion rights, with seven passing amendments to protect or expand access. In Florida, Nebraska, and South Dakota, however, voters rejected measures that would have protected abortion rights more broadly, ending a consistent streak of …

Grace Panetta Originally published by The 19th Ten states across the country could enshrine the right to abortion in their state constitutions this year. Seven states have directly voted on abortion since the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in June 2022 — and abortion rights advocates are so …