Despite state-level abortion bans following the Supreme Court’s overturning of Roe v. Wade in June 2022, the number of abortions performed in the U.S. decreased by only 2% that year, according to a CDC report. 

In one example, the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley’s entire OB-GYN department is shutting down, highlighting the severity of the crisis.

The Texas committee responsible for examining all pregnancy-related deaths in the state has decided to skip cases in 2022 and 2023, the first two years after the state’s full abortion ban went into effect.

In 2012, Savita Halappanavar, a dentist in Ireland, died after doctors failed to give her an abortion when her amniotic sac ruptured at 17 weeks pregnant.

Porsha Ngumezi had a miscarriage at 11 weeks, and bled so much in emergency department she had needed two blood transfusions.

Anti-abortion groups aren’t thrilled about his nomination, and they are demanding that he commit to hiring anti-abortion leaders at HHS and publicly commit to antiabortion policies during his confirmation hearings.

Georgia state officials shut down an entire committee dedicated to reviewing maternal mortality in the state, after ProPublica reported in September on the deaths of two women as a result of the state’s abortion ban.

Reproductive rights groups are not ready to embrace compromises on abortion, IVF, and birth control access, arguing that they could harm access to reproductive care.

A federal judge struck down Wyoming’s abortion ban, ruling it unconstitutional and granting access to abortion in the state.

There were millions of people who voted against abortion bans *and* FOR the man who put those bans in motion.

One organization got requests for 5,000 pills in less than 12 hours. They typically ship 9,000 pills in an entire month.

Combing through the data to explain why most late term abortions happen (hint: it’s fetal anomalies and not convenience.)

 “They said ‘we think it’s very inappropriate for you to say so.’ I said ‘Why? I’m president, I want to protect the women.’”

Josseli Barnica was excited to be pregnant with her second child but suffered a miscarriage at 17 weeks. Instead of helping the miscarriage progress, doctors let her suffer for 40 hours because her fetus still had a heartbeat.

This is a story that captures the moral challenges and nuance that arise when you mix the law and pregnancy.

A profile of Dr. Gabrielle Goodrick, a family medicine doctor and owner of a clinic in Arizona that performs abortions.

The New York Times analyzed over 600 speeches (!!!) from Donald Trump on abortion and shows visually just how much his rhetoric has changed.

Groups that help cover the cost of abortions and the travel required to leave abortion ban states say they are limiting expenditures.

Over 200 women faced criminal charges for charges associated with pregnancy between June 2022 and 2023, the most cases seen by Pregnancy Justice in decades of tracking.