Gov. Josh Stein (D-NC) issued an executive order aimed at protecting abortion in the Tar Heel State, just weeks after taking office. Stein, a Democrat, governs over a state that has large GOP majorities in both state houses,

Some of the bills were filed in direct response to ProPublica’s reporting on the fatal consequences of abortion bans.

The states want the federal Food and Drug Administration to prohibit telehealth prescriptions for mifepristone and require that it be used only in the first seven weeks of pregnancy instead of the current limit of 10 weeks.

A man defaced two crisis pregnancy centers in Texas in light of the leaked Dobbs v. Jackson Supreme Court draft opinion that indicated the high court was going to turn abortion decisions back to the states in 2022, federal prosecutors said.

The anti-abortion movement is on the rise in Russia, and the Kremlin is responding by changing the law to make terminations more difficult.

“Basically, the farther the patients resided from an abortion facility, the more they were depending on the pills being mailed to them,” co-lead researcher Dr. Emily Godfrey, an OB/GYN and family doctor with the University of Washington, said in a news release.

Spouses and boyfriends are coordinating with anti-abortion groups to go after the women in their lives who may have terminated a pregnancy. Now, those same groups are running ads to encourage men to turn in more women.

A Boise State University public policy survey found that the majority of Idaho residents prefer abortion policies that are more lax than the state’s current restrictions.

Michele Morrow, the losing GOP candidate for North Carolina superintendent of public instruction, this week unveiled a new advocacy group she said will lobby to make good on her campaign promises.

Republicans are fuming at the State Department after learning that aid recipients of the legacy program to curb HIV/AIDS across Africa, PEPFAR, performed abortions in violation of U.S. law.

Though abortion rights supporters prevailed on ballot measures in seven of the 10 states where abortion was up for a vote on Nov. 5, the state supreme courts they've elected indicate legal fights to come aren't clear-cut.