abortion
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The Abortion Pill Gets Three More Days. Every Three Days.
The Fifth Circuit banned mifepristone by mail. Alito overrode it. Then extended it three more days. The court is running the clock while millions of women wait.
The Mifepristone Stay Expires Today. SCOTUS Has Not Acted.
Justice Alito's one-week pause on the Fifth Circuit's mail-order abortion ban runs out May 11. If the court stays silent, two-thirds of American abortions stop being accessible by mail overnight.
Mifepristone Can Be Mailed Today. By Monday, It Might Not Be.
The Supreme Court temporarily restored telemedicine access to the most widely used abortion medication after a Fifth Circuit panel banned mailing it nationwide. SCOTUS now has to decide whether to let that ban go into effect before the full case is heard.
The Supreme Court Has Until Monday to Save Telehealth Abortion Access. It Probably Will. That's Not the Point.
SCOTUS paused the 5th Circuit's ban on mifepristone by mail until May 11. The real question is what happens after the pause.
Republicans Just Introduced a National Abortion Ban Labeled Something Else
Rep. Kat Cammack's Dismemberment Abortion Ban Act criminalizes the most common second-trimester procedure. Call it what it is: a national 12-week ban written to sound procedural.
The 5th Circuit Ended Telehealth Abortion. SCOTUS Has One Week to Decide if It Agrees.
Louisiana got a unanimous appeals court to revive an in-person requirement the FDA dropped years ago. The Supreme Court's one-week stay runs out May 11.
Alito Saves the Abortion Pill. For One Week.
The 5th Circuit banned mifepristone by mail. SCOTUS gave it a seven-day reprieve. The same justice who ended Roe is now the procedural firewall between millions of women and a nationwide restriction.
The 5th Circuit Rewrites Who Gets an Abortion
A federal appeals court just restored an in-person requirement for mifepristone, cutting off mail-order access for women in rural and restricted-access states.
The Surveillance App That Knows When You Are Pregnant
A popular period tracking app has been selling users' health data to Meta. In states where abortion is now a criminal matter, this is not a privacy violation. It is evidence collection.
The EPA Wants to Test Your Water for Abortion Pills
The agency added mifepristone and misoprostol to its drinking water monitoring list. The stated reason is environmental safety. The actual effect is a surveillance infrastructure for medication abortion.
Pennsylvania Court Strikes Down Medicaid Abortion Ban, Opening the Next Front in the Post-Dobbs War
The ruling uses the state constitution's Equal Rights Amendment to establish a fundamental right to reproductive autonomy. That's a legal argument designed to survive federal courts.
Abortion Bans Increased Abortions. The Pro-Life Movement Won the Law and Lost the Outcome.
The US hit 1.14 million abortions in 2024, more than any year in the previous decade. Medication abortion now accounts for 25% of all procedures. State bans did not stop abortions. They moved them.
Ohio Voters Put Abortion Rights in the Constitution. The Legislature Is Systematically Dismantling Them Anyway.
The SHE WINS Act is the 11th Ohio bill targeting abortion since voters enshrined reproductive freedom in the state constitution by 57% in 2023. The real test is whether the Ohio Supreme Court will honor the referendum.