"Again, I'm not projecting ahead," Sen. Joni Ernst told reporters. "We need to go through the process with the Supreme Court." ...

WASHINGTON — As conservative states enacted stringent abortion bans in recent decades, there was one threshold they were loath to cross: Abortion was nearly always allowed in cases of rape or incest.

“When I was 5, I began getting sexually abused by my stepfather, and he got me pregnant when I was 12,” Hadley Duvall says in a new campaign ad released by Vice President Kamala Harris Thursday.

Only four states with abortion bans allow the procedure due to rape. Since the Supreme Court's reversal of Roe v. Wade in June, several states have enacted strict abortion bans. At least 15 states ...

Layla Houshmand was eight weeks pregnant in the spring of 2021 when she woke up to find her field of vision smeared with a hazy sheen, like Vaseline rubbed on the lens of a camera. She was already ...

Florida’s current six-week abortion ban includes exceptions for the pregnant woman’s health and life under certain conditions. It also allows for exceptions in cases of rape and incest up to 15 weeks ...

Most of the state abortion prohibitions that would go into effect if Roe v. Wade is overturned do not contain carve-outs that were once widely supported by abortion opponents. By Jan Hoffman In the ...

If it seems as though the anti-abortion movement has gotten more extreme in recent months, that's because it has. But it's not the first time — positions taken by both sides of the abortion debate ...

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