Congress is a mess. But the one thing they've managed to do without fail — year after year, for nearly 40 years — is ban federal programs from providing health insurance coverage for abortion through the so-called Hyde Amendment and other similar restrictions.

July 8, 2015

Last week: Ohio Gov. John Kasich signed a state budget that may cause more health care centers to close; meanwhile, a law forcing 48-hour wait times for women seeking safe, legal abortion went into effect in Tennessee.

July 2, 2015

States have enacted 51 new abortion restrictions in the first six months of 2015 — despite the fact that Americans overwhelmingly support access to abortion.

July 2, 2015

This week: Ohio’s Senate passed a bill that would dangerously ban abortions after 20 weeks without exceptions for rape or incest; meanwhile, Texas Governor Abbott kicked Planned Parenthood out of a program that provides breast and cervical cancer screenings to low-income women; and the U.S. Senate decides to attack fact-based teen pregnancy prevention programs and replace it with #JunkScience, abstinence-only dogma.

June 26, 2015

The United States Supreme Court today declined to review a North Carolina law that would have forced a woman to undergo a narrated ultrasound before receiving an abortion — a measure that was blocked by both a district court and federal appeals court as unconstitutional.

June 15, 2015

Politicians are not medical experts, yet politicians have written these restrictions with the end goal of cutting off access to safe, legal abortion.

June 12, 2015

Arizona lawmakers are forcing doctors to lie to their patients — and we're going to court to stop this outrageous attack.

June 8, 2015

This Week: One Wisconsin gynotician says medical training isn’t needed to ban abortion after 20 weeks and another is now the new “Todd Aiken”; meanwhile, a North Carolina gynotician says tripling mandated wait times to a dangerous 72 hours is “reasonable,” and real doctors are taking a stand against Arizona gynoticians’ #JunkScience.

June 5, 2015

This week: Scott Walker absolutely loves forced ultrasounds, West Virginia’s 20-week abortion ban law takes effect, and Texas wants to make it harder for abused teens to get an abortion (because they might be lying).

May 29, 2015