(New York Times, Feb. 21, 2024) A ruling by Alabama's Supreme Court invites states to enact strict new regulations over the fertility industry that could sharply limit the number of embryos created during a cycle of medical treatment and affect the future of millions of stored frozen embryos. A concurring opinion even offered road maps for such statutes.... The Alabama Supreme Court employed reasoning that runs through the U.S. Supreme Court’s 2022 abortion ruling: that [...]

(CNN, Feb. 6, 2024) The academic publisher Sage Publications has retracted studies used by a Texas judge in a ruling that would suspend federal approval of the abortion pill mifepristone. The retractions, Sage said, were based on unreliable data and conflicts of interest around the authors' ties to the anti-abortion movement. Read More

(NPR, Feb. 5, 2024) Phillips, 28, never expected to go into politics. But after she got devastating news about her pregnancy, everything changed. Read More

(Idaho Statesman, Feb. 5, 2024) A Boise woman's experience has garnered attention on social media after her husband posted about a local pharmacist's refusal to fill a prescription to aid her miscarriage. Note: The good news is that the husband's post went viral. Read More

(Jan. 30, 2024) French lawmakers overwhelmingly approved a bill (Jan. 29) to enshrine abortion rights in France’s Constitution, the first step in a complex legislative process that began in direct response to the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v Wade. The bill, proposed by President Emmanuel Macron and his government, was passed by the National Assembly, the lower and more powerful house of France’s Parliament, with 493 votes in favor and 30 against. [...]

(CNN Politics, Jan. 23, 2024) The Justice Department and the manufacturer of a widely used abortion pill urged the Supreme Court on Tuesday to preserve full access to the drug, warning that a lower-court ruling restricting its availability "threatens profound harms" nationwide. Read More

(NY Times, Jan. 18, 2024) A coalition of reproductive-rights groups in Missouri kicked off a campaign to establish a right to abortion in the state constitution, setting up the nation’s next big test of public support for legalized abortion. A successful ballot measure there could make it the first state where a citizen-led initiative reverses a near-total ban. Read More

(Guttmacher Institute, Jan. 17, 2024) In the first 10 months of 2023, there were an estimated 878,000 abortions in the formal U.S. healthcare system, 94% as many abortions as were provided in 2020 (930,000), according to the Guttmacher Institute. Read More >

 (NPR, Jan. 24, 2024) Researchers estimate nearly 65,000 rape-caused pregnancies have happened in states with abortion bans in effect since Roe v. Wade was overturned. The report is in JAMA Internal Medicine. Rape exceptions for abortion laws have fallen out of favor among anti-abortion rights groups, and the majority of states with abortion bans do not include such an exception. Students for Life, an anti-abortion rights group that strongly opposes rape exceptions, did not immediately [...]

(NY Times, Dec. 14, 2023) One of the most effective birth control options is also known for the painful procedure to insert it. The CDC is in the process of reviewing recently published data on pain management for IUD insertions with plans to update recommendations in 2024. (Current CDC guidance is vaguely supportive of using a local anesthetic.) Read More >