Trend – Abortion

Operation Save America anti-abortion event offers mixed messages of calls to violence

BY: - July 22, 2023

Protesters filled several blocks of sidewalk outside A Preferred Women’s Health Center of Atlanta on Friday morning, the fourth day of protests there this week. Many wore T-shirts and held signs to declare which side they were on, and several congregated near the parking lot entrance to speak into microphones and tell any abortion clinic […]

Kansans for and against the Constitutional Amendment on Abortion hold up signs along 135th Street on August 01, 2022 in Olathe, Kansas. (Photo by Kyle Rivas/Getty Images)

Positive polling, past successes don’t guarantee victory for abortion rights at the ballot box

BY: - July 3, 2023

In several states, Republicans are adjusting rules to scramble the political calculus.

Members of the crowd bow their heads in prayer at the start of the Faith & Freedom Road to Majority conference at the Washington Hilton on June 23, 2023. (Photo by Drew Angerer/Getty Images)

Where the GOP presidential candidates stand on national abortion bans, restrictions

BY: - June 27, 2023

Here's a look at the 2024 field -- as it currently stands.

An ultrasound image of Jennifer Adkins’ 12-week-old fetus that was diagnosed with Turner syndrome and hydrops fetalis, two defects that are often fatal to the fetus and dangerous for the pregnant person to carry. Adkins had to seek an abortion in Oregon because, like 13 other states across the country, Idaho has a near-total ban on abortions without exceptions provided to preserve the health of the pregnant person. (Courtesy of Jennifer Adkins)

Post-Roe abortion bans force pregnant people with life-threatening complications to travel

BY: - May 10, 2023

Idaho woman traveled to Oregon to terminate pregnancy with fatal fetal anomalies.   

U.S. Supreme Court overturns Roe v. Wade. What does that mean in Pennsylvania?

BY: - June 24, 2022

U.S. Supreme Court overturns Roe v. Wade. What does that mean for abortion access and reproductive rights in Pennsylvania?

More than half of Americans say abortion should be legal in all, most cases | The Numbers Racket

BY: - June 6, 2022

A majority of men (58 percent) and women (63 percent) said abortion should be legal in all or most cases.

Advocates, Democrats energized by possibility of U.S. Supreme Court overturning Roe v. Wade

BY: - May 4, 2022

Anna Tova Levin is not pro-abortion, and the procedure saved her life. “In an ideal world, abortion would never be needed,” the 36-year-old mother of three and attorney told the Capital-Star on Tuesday. Rape and incest would not happen; people would have access to accurate information about pregnancy prevention and options for free birth control, […]

Biden on leaked draft opinion on abortion: The ‘right to choose is fundamental’

BY: - May 3, 2022

WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden said Tuesday that his administration “will be ready when any ruling is issued” on abortion rights, after the nation was rocked by the leak of a draft opinion from the U.S. Supreme Court that confirmed the court is planning to overturn access to abortion. “I believe that a woman’s right […]

With court expected to strike down Roe v. Wade, Pa.’s governor race could determine abortion access

BY: - May 3, 2022

With Pennsylvania's primary election two weeks away, the battle over reproductive rights will continue on the ballot while one Democrat and nine Republicans seek their party's nomination.

Wolf: In wake of leaked Supreme Court opinion on Roe, ‘abortion is and will remain legal in Pennsylvania’

BY: - May 3, 2022

All four of the leading Republicans vying for the GOP governor nomination oppose abortion rights, with two supporting no exceptions at all.