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Medication Abortion Comes Under Attack in Sham Lawsuit

Anti-abortion rights groups have gone to federal court seeking to ban a drug used safely in medication abortions for over 20 years

State of Abortion: 5 Moves from the Biden-Harris Administration to Protect Access

The executive branch, under President Joe Biden, is working to protect access to reproductive health care.

Oct. 21, 2022

Planned Parenthood Votes: Republicans Introduce National Abortion Ban

Should anti-abortion politicians gain power in Congress this November, they’ll ban abortion in every state in the country — end of story.

Sept. 13, 2022

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The Anti-abortion Movement’s Tortured Relationship With the Truth

A crime in Ohio reveals the estrangement between abortion rights opponents and reality

July 15, 2022

Outrage: U.S. Supreme Court Takes Away Constitutional Right to Safe, Legal Abortion

With Roe v. Wade overturned, the basic right to control our own bodies will disappear across much of the country

June 24, 2022

Supreme Court Abandons Texans, Once Again Allowing Abortion Ban to Stand

The failure to end Texas’s blatant denial of the constitutional right to abortion gives other states the green light to set copycat laws into motion. 

Dec. 16, 2021

The Ongoing Battle to Get Politicians Out of My Exam Room

Abortion is a human right.  It’s time our government upholds, protects and defends that right — and the ability of providers to honor their oaths to truth, empathy and help.

Sept. 16, 2021

Restrictions on Abortion Coverage Target Black and Latino Communities

Institutionalized discrimination in the U.S. health care system and economy has long created barriers for Black, Latino and other people of color from career and economic success. This limited access to financial security has numerous consequences — such as limited access to health care, including safe and legal abortion.

Aug. 23, 2021

Why Do Politicians Target Medicaid Users to Shut Down Planned Parenthood?

The ‘defund’ tactic is so central to politicians’ playbooks that it raises a question: Why do politicians specifically target people with MEDICAID in their strategy  to damage Planned Parenthood? 

Aug. 18, 2021

Four Reasons Why Abortion Services Can Be Hard to Find

Why is it that most people who need an in-clinic abortion come to Planned Parenthood health centers and other abortion providers — even if they have an OB-GYN they regularly see elsewhere?

Aug. 13, 2021