abortion bans

Missouri and South Dakota Move Toward Abortion Rights Ballot Questions

Politics
Amanda Smith

Two more states with near-total abortion bans are poised to have citizen-sponsored measures on the ballot this year that would allow voters ...

Biden’s 50-year journey as a skeptic of Roe v. Wade to its ultimate protector

Politics
Amanda Smith

REHOBOTH BEACH, Del. — Standing outside Joe Biden’s church in this seaside town, the Rev. William Cocco mulls a question the president ...

Kari Lake gets flak from both sides on abortion as she navigates Arizona law

Politics
Amanda Smith

TUCSON, Ariz. — Republican Senate hopeful Kari Lake took criticism from both flanks of the abortion debate during a visit to the ...

Democrats bank on abortion in 2024 as Arizona and Florida push stakes higher

Politics
Amanda Smith

Kamala Harris’s Friday visit to Arizona was planned before the state’s top court upheld a 160-year-old law that bans almost all abortions. ...

Abortion rates in the U.S. at their highest in a decade, finds new report. Here’s what to know.

LifeStyle
Olivia Martin

Abortion rates hit a 10-year high in 2023. (Getty Images) The rate of abortions rose by 10% in 2023, compared to 2020, ...

Vice President Harris will visit a Minnesota clinic that performs abortions

Politics
Amanda Smith

WASHINGTON (AP) — Vice President Kamala Harris on Thursday plans to tour a Minnesota clinic that performs abortions and provides other reproductive ...

Biden, Trump platforms both clash with Catholic Church. So who will Catholic Latinos turn to?

Politics
Amanda Smith

The Trump and Biden campaigns have a delicate task ahead in courting socially conservative Latino Catholics, a group that’s ideologically opposed to ...

Female representation remains low in US statehouses, particularly Democrats in the South

Politics
Amanda Smith

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — Democrat Kayla Young and Republican Patricia Rucker frequently clash on abortion rights and just about everything else in ...

French Senate backs enshrining right to abortion in constitution

World
David Turner

France’s upper house of parliament, the Senate, has voted overwhelmingly to enshrine women’s right to abortion in the constitution. The proposal, approved ...

Alabama’s IVF ruling risks political, legal backlash

Politics
Amanda Smith

An Alabama Supreme Court ruling granting legal personhood to frozen embryos risks a legal and political backlash for conservatives heading into the ...