As the battle over abortion continues to rage in the courts and American politics, a new report estimates that one in every four U.S. women will undergo the procedure during their lifetime.
The study was issued by the Guttmacher Institute, a research and policy org...
An increasing number of young men and women have decided they never want parenthood in the wake of the Dobbs decision revoking the constitutional right to an abortion, a new study finds.
The number of young adults opting to undergo a permanent sterilization procedure abr...
Following oral arguments presented on Tuesday, the U.S. Supreme Court looked poised to rebuff a legal challenge to women's access to the abortion pill.
Mifepristone is part of a two-drug regimen now used for the&n...
As the U.S. Supreme Court prepares to hear arguments Tuesday in a case that could determine nationwide access to the abortion pill, a new study finds requests for the medication made outside the traditional health care system surged after Roe v. Wade was overturned.
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Following the historic reversal of Roe v. Wade in June of 2022, the number of abortions in the United States has risen to more than a million per year, with medication abortions representing nearly two-thirds of those cases.
Abortion rights will play a pivotal role in determining how people will vote in the 2024 election, a new KFF poll has found.
About one in eight voters (12%) now say abortion is the most important issue for their vote in the upcoming elections.
Further, around half ...
CVS and Walgreens announced Friday that they will start dispensing the abortion pill mifepristone this month.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has certified the nation's two largest pharmacy chains to dispense mifepristone, and they plan to make the medication avail...
The historic overturning of Roe v. Wade in 2022 has not had any significant effect on the number of abortions performed each month in the United States, new data shows.
The #WeCount report tracks abortion rates acros...
Medication abortion can be delivered safely and effectively using telemedicine, a large, new study concludes.
Women who received abortion pills through the mail following a video visit with a doctor fared just as well as women who visited a clinic, researchers report Feb...
Two studies that warned of the harms of the abortion pill have been retracted by the journals' publisher over flaws in the data and conflicts of interest among the researchers.
Complicating matters even further, the papers were cited in a
Becoming pregnant as a result of sexual violence is disturbingly common in the United States, a new study reveals.
Nearly 6 million U.S. women have become pregnant as a result of rape or sexual coercion, researchers reported recently in the
THURSDAY, Jan. 25, 2024 (HealthDayNews) -- In the 14 states with abortion bans, there have been nearly 65,000 pregnancies resulting from rape during the time since those bans went into place, a new study estimates.
To arrive at that troubling number, researchers turned t...
Women are suffering more anxiety and depression in states that banned abortion after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, a new study shows.
The court's Dobbs decision in June 2022 triggered laws banning abortion in 13 states.
In the six months after, symptoms...
On what would have been the 51st anniversary of the landmark Roe v. Wade ruling, the Biden Administration on Monday announced new measures it will take to further protect a woman's access to abortion.
"Fifty-one years ago today, the Supreme Court recognized a woman's con...
Abortion bans are intended to preserve the lives of children, proponents say, but a new study has found infants are more likely to die in the states with the most restrictive laws.
States with the tightest abortion laws had a 16% increased infant mortality rate from 2014...
A U.S. online provider of the mifepristone/misoprostol abortion pill combo saw a ten-fold jump in orders when the Dobbs decision overturning Roe v. Wade was first leaked in 2022, a new study finds.
Such orders declined a bit in the months after the deci...
The Supreme Court will review the ability of American women to easily access a commonly used abortion pill, the court announced Wednesday.
Mifepristone has become central to the response by health care professiona...
States that ban abortion could be headed to a brain drain when it comes to up-and-coming medical professionals.
Three out of four future U.S. doctors say state access to abortion is a key factor in choosing where they'll apply for their residency training, according to a...
New data shows that births rose in the first half of 2023 in states where abortion bans came into effect following the fall of Roe v. Wade in 2022.
States with bans had an average 2.3% rise in the fertility rate compared to states where abortion remained legal, according...
When states have restrictive abortion laws in place, more children end up in foster care, new research finds.
This happened even before the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in June 2022, the investigators noted.
The study, published Nov. 7 in the journal <...
Abortion numbers increased -- not decreased -- slightly in the year after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, the 1973 ruling that legalized the procedure.
Some states immediately banned access and numbers of abortions fell to nearly zero in those with the str...
When some U.S. states made abortion illegal after the Supreme Court overturned the longstanding Roe v Wade in June 2022, women in those areas increased their searches for self-managed abortions.
To come to that conclusion, researchers from the University of California, I...
Even before Roe v. Wade was overturned in 2022, many U.S. women lived far from a clinic where they could get abortion pills. Now, a new study suggests that telemedicine can help fill that gap.
The study focused on one reproductive health clinic in Washington sta...
The abortion pill mifepristone should remain legal in the United States, but with significant restrictions on access to it, a federal appeals court ruled Wednesday.
The President's Emergency Program for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), a program that's long successfully provided relief to people with AIDS around the world, will now be housed within the U.S. State Department.
The move comes after years of pressure by anti-abortion groups and s...
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Thursday approved the nation's first over-the-counter birth control pill, a move that will likely pave the way for far greater access to contraception for Americans.
Women will be able to buy the progestin-only oral contraceptive ...
The U.S. Supreme Court decision ending a nationwide right to abortion one year ago has made it harder for doctors to treat miscarriages and other pregnancy-related emergencies, a new report shows.
Some might think masturbation is all about self-pleasure, but scientists now claim it's far more significant than that.
Their new findings suggest it could serve an important role in evolution.
An ancient trait in primates, masturbation — at least for the males ...
A ruling on the abortion pill mifepristone will be one step closer Wednesday when three federal judges hear arguments in the case.
The three judges at the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans have a history of supporting abortion restrictions, the Associa...
In a unanimous vote, a panel of expert advisors to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Wednesday endorsed the over-the-counter sale of a birth control pill, a recommendation that will likely pave the way for far greater access to contraception for Americans.
Opill, ...
As a U.S. Food Drug Administration advisory panel prepares to weigh whether to recommend that a birth control pill be sold over the counter in this country, a coalition of advocates on Monday called attention to the safety and effectiveness of the medication.
If approved...
When the U.S. Supreme Court struck down a woman's constitutional right to abortion in June, internet searches for information related to abortion and contraception surged.
Searches for abortion-related terms increased much more in U.S. states where access to reproductive...
Denying a woman an emergency abortion and risking her life broke U.S. federal law, a federal government investigation contends.
The woman, who went into premature labor after her water broke at 17 weeks was denied the lifesaving procedure last August at two hospitals tha...
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled on Friday that the abortion pill mifepristone can remain widely available while litigation over its fate winds its way through the court system.
In the meantime, the
The Supreme Court on Wednesday delayed a decision on a federal appeals court ruling that seeks to limit access to the abortion pill mifepristone.
In a brief order, Justice Samuel Alito Jr. said the pause on any decision would lapse Friday at midnight, giving the court...
In the latest move to restrict access to the abortion pill mifepristone in the United States, a coalition of anti-abortion groups on Tuesday asked the Supreme Court to allow an appeals court ruling to stand.
The Biden administration filed an emergency application on Friday that asks the U.S. Supreme Court to pause parts of a recent federal ruling that limit the availability of the abortion pill mifepristone.
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis on Thursday signed a bill that bans abortions in that state after six weeks, with exemptions only given up to 15 weeks for rape, incest and the life and health of the pregnant woman.
The new l...
A federal appeals court on Wednesday said the abortion pill mifepristone could remain available for now. But the court's judges added some provisions to their ruling: A block on mailing the pill to patients as well as stays on other measures the federal government has taken re...
U.S. officials said Wednesday that they plan to strengthen existing privacy rules to prevent the sharing of private legal reproductive health care information for use in investigations and prosecutions against patients or providers.
The U.S. Department of Health & Human ...
Pregnancy rates in the United States suffered a steep decline during the last decade, new government data shows.
The overall U.S. pregnancy rate fell by 12% between 2010 and 2019, according to figures released Wednesday by the U.S. National Center for Health Statistics (...
The U.S. Justice Department on Monday appealed a Texas court ruling that invalidates the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's approval in 2020 of mifepristone, the first of two drugs taken during a medical abortion.
A Texas federal judge has issued a preliminary ruling that invalidates the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approval in 2000 of mifepristone, the first of two drugs most commonly taken during a medical abortion.
People covered by Medicaid insurance may not have easy access to some of the most effective, longer-acting birth control methods, new research claims.
Investigators found that while about 48% of physicians who treat Medicaid patients provided prescription contraception l...
After receiving a warning letter from Republican attorneys general in 20 states, Walgreens said it does not plan to distribute abortion pills in those states -- even in the ones where abortion is still legal.
Whether women will continue to be able to get a medication abortion using the drug mifepristone in the United States hinges on the impending ruling of a federal judge in Texas.
While you can't trust everything you read or see on social media, some information is reliable.
Researchers from Duke University studied popular videos on the social media site TikTok. The videos offered information on ways to obtain a medication abortion.
These we...
Changes in U.S. abortion laws have prompted confusion among women about medication abortion and emergency contraception, or the “morning-after” pill.
A new poll by the Kaiser Family Foundation (KFF) underscores this lack of awareness about what's legal or not from st...
In the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court's decision to overturn Roe v. Wade in June 2022, access to surgical abortion became increasingly restricted in several states, pushing many women to pursue medication abortions.
But the case of a 22-year-old who took mifepristone and...