More women are charged with pregnancy-related crimes since Roe’s end, study finds

More women are charged with pregnancy-related crimes since Roe’s end, study finds

It became more common for authorities to charge women with crimes related to their pregnancies after the fall of Roe v. Wade in 2022, a new study found — even if they’re almost never accused of violating abortion bans. In the year after the U.S. Supreme Court ended the nationwide right to abortion in its … Read more

Now a Roe advocate, woman raped by stepfather as a child tells her story in Harris campaign ad

Now a Roe advocate, woman raped by stepfather as a child tells her story in Harris campaign ad

WASHINGTON — A 22-year-old woman who became an abortion rights advocate after she was raped by her stepfather as a child tells her story in a new campaign ad for Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris. Hadley Duvall says in voiceover that she’s never slept a full night in her life — her stepfather first started … Read more

Two Georgia deaths are tied to abortion restrictions. Experts say abortion pills they took are safe

Two Georgia deaths are tied to abortion restrictions. Experts say abortion pills they took are safe

Vice President Kamala Harris is expected to speak about abortion Friday in Georgia, where two women’s deaths have been tied to a state law that mostly bans the procedure after roughly six weeks. Amber Thurman died after waiting 20 hours for a hospital to treat complications that occurred after she took abortion pills. Reported by … Read more

Trump Says Women ‘Will No Longer Be Thinking About Abortion’ If He Wins

Trump Says Women ‘Will No Longer Be Thinking About Abortion’ If He Wins

Former President Donald Trump doubled down over the weekend on a bizarre all-caps message to female voters that he posted to his Truth Social page late Friday: “YOU WILL NO LONGER BE THINKING ABOUT ABORTION.” He repeated the message nearly word-for-word during a rally Saturday afternoon in Wilmington, North Carolina, suggesting that women will no … Read more

State asks judge to pause ruling that struck down North Dakota’s abortion ban

State asks judge to pause ruling that struck down North Dakota’s abortion ban

BISMARCK, N.D. — The state of North Dakota is asking a judge to pause his ruling from last week that struck down the state’s abortion ban until the state Supreme Court rules on a planned appeal. The state’s motion to stay a pending appeal was filed Wednesday. State District Judge Bruce Romanick ruled last week … Read more

A lawsuit challenging a South Dakota abortion rights measure will play out after the election

A lawsuit challenging a South Dakota abortion rights measure will play out after the election

An anti-abortion group’s lawsuit to invalidate an abortion rights measure appearing on South Dakota’s statewide ballot won’t be resolved until after the November election. Media reports of an apparent disconnect between attorneys and the Second Judicial Circuit over scheduling of the trial — initially set for Sept. 23-27 — led the court to issue an … Read more

‘She should be alive today’ — Harris spotlights woman’s death to blast abortion bans and Trump

‘She should be alive today’ — Harris spotlights woman’s death to blast abortion bans and Trump

ATLANTA — Kamala Harris blasted Donald Trump as a threat to women’s freedoms and their very lives, warning in a speech in the battleground state of Georgia on Friday that Republicans would continue to choke off access to abortion if he returns to the White House. The Democratic vice president’s visit came days after ProPublica … Read more

Kamala Harris Gives First Speech Focused On Abortion Rights As Dem Nominee

Kamala Harris Gives First Speech Focused On Abortion Rights As Dem Nominee

Vice President Kamala Harris on Friday delivered a powerful speech on abortion rights — her first address to focus solely on reproductive rights and the dire landscape for pregnant people in a post-Roe v. Wade world since she became the Democratic presidential nominee. Harris spoke at a rally in Atlanta, where she was surrounded by … Read more

Republicans are trying a new approach to abortion in the race for Congress

Republicans are trying a new approach to abortion in the race for Congress

WASHINGTON — In the most contested races for control of the U.S. House, many Republican candidates are speaking up about women’s rights to abortion access and reproductive care in new and surprising ways, a deliberate shift for a GOP blindsided by some political ramifications of the post-Roe v. Wade era. Looking directly into the camera … Read more

VP says woman’s death after delayed abortion treatment shows consequences of Trump’s actions

VP says woman’s death after delayed abortion treatment shows consequences of Trump’s actions

WASHINGTON — Vice President Kamala Harris said Tuesday that the death of a young Georgia mother who died after waiting 20 hours for a hospital to treat her complications from an abortion pill shows the consequences of Donald Trump’s actions. Amber Thurman’s death, first reported Monday by ProPublica, occurred just two weeks after Georgia’s strict … Read more