Abortion Rights

Massachusetts lawmakers announced a deal Monday on legislation to protect access to reproductive health services in the wake of a U.S. Supreme Court ruling that eliminated the national right to an abortion. Legislative leaders said a six-member conference committee produced an accord that resolves differences between versions of the legislation (H ...

A CVS spokesperson said the drugstore chain recently started doing this for methotrexate and misoprostol, two drugs used in medication abortions but also to treat other conditions.

Google’s YouTube says it will remove some videos that provide instructions for unsafe abortion methods.

After the Supreme Court ruling overturning Roe v. Wade, a professor at Howard University wrote an Op-Ed discussing the 13th Amendment as a new plan to protect abortion rights. The amendment could satisfy the more originalist members of the Court and it would center Black people in the fight for abortion rights and bodily autonomy, professor Lisa Cr...

The U.S. Capitol Police on Tuesday said 35 people, including 17 Democratic members of Congress, were arrested during a protest that blocked traffic over the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade.

Massachusetts Reps. Ayanna Pressley and Katherine Clark were arrested while attending a protest in support of abortion rights in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday. In a statement, Pressley spokesperson Ricardo A. Sánchez said Pressley was one of several people arrested by U.S. Capitol police during the event outside the U.S Supreme Court. “Today, Congre...

The bill is a direct reaction to the Supreme Court’s ruling striking down Roe v. Wade and overturning longstanding federal abortion rights.

The Supreme Court ruling that overturned Roe v. Wade is expected to lead to abortion being banned or severely restricted in nearly half the United States.

The Texas Medical Association, which represents doctors, says pregnant people at some hospitals in the state have not received swift, proper care for dangerous pregnancy complications. The group has asked the state’s medical board to investigate the state’s 6-week abortion ban and its effects on care in hospitals. Reporter Allie Morris ...

House Democrats passed two bills Friday that would protect abortion rights and the women who travel across state lines for the procedure

The abortion bans taking effect after the nation’s highest court overturned Roe v. Wade vary greatly in how they define when a pregnancy can be ended.

Ashley, specifically speaking about reproductive choices, said “every individual should be autonomous in their reproductive choices because democracy starts at our skin.”

As reproductive rights remain in the spotlight, a vending machine that students helped bring to Boston University is going viral. It dispenses emergency contraception, and it is one of the first machines of its kind in the country.