A recent lightning rod for abortion opponents, the drug mifepristone—the first of two in the standard medication abortion ...

Robert F. Kennedy Jr had an absolute trainwreck of a confirmation hearing. Kennedy, who had been a vocal vaccine skeptic and ...

A higher dose of an emergency-contraception drug may open a back door for Americans seeking abortions in restrictive states.

Meanwhile, in an executive order, Trump created his long-discussed “Department of Government Efficiency,” to be led by Elon ...

The anti-abortion movement has launched a pressure campaign urging President Donald Trump’s administration to take steps ...

Last Friday, my colleague Julianne McShane and I broke the news of a pair of letters sent by 30 prominent anti-abortion ...

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A new study shows a possible new abortion drug to replace mifepristone. But will these results increase abortion access—or restrict women's reproductive health options down the line?

Those original plaintiffs dropped their case after the U.S. Supreme Court last June found they did not have the necessary ...

A decision by a federal judge last week is reviving the effort to limit access to mifepristone, opening a fresh round of litigation over a widely used drug that has grown in importance since the ...

A Texas judge has allowed three states to move forward with a legal challenge seeking to impose stricter rules on the ...