A group of Senate Republicans are pushing to defund Planned Parenthood following the release of undercover sting videos that allegedly show people from the women's health group selling fetal tissue.
Earlier this week, House Democrats introduced the Equal Access to Abortion Coverage in Health Insurance Woman Act. The pioneering legislation endeavors to weaken the long-standing Hyde Amendment, allowing government-funded health plans to pay for abortion services.
While Latino Millennials tend to have a conversative view on abortion, many Texas Latinas are celebrating the U.S. Supreme Court's decision to temporarily block Texas legislation that threatened access to abortion care for tens of thousands of women, namely Latina and low income women.
Just out of jail, the mother of an 11-year-old pregnant girl is speaking about the situation and claiming she had gone to authorities before looking for help.
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday refused to consider North Carolina's bid to reinstate legislation requiring women to undergo a narrated ultrasound before an abortion after the law had been declared unconstitutional by a federal appellate court last year.
The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a strict Texas law that will force all clinics to maintain high hospital standards, and will therefore likely shut down most abortion clinics in the state.
Doctors in Arizona are suing the state over a recently passed abortion law they say forces them to lie to their patients about the reversibility of such procedures.
Instructional videos that purport to show the extremes lengths pregnant women might have to go in order to terminate their pregnancy have been released online in Chile and have gained hundreds of thousands of views.
The campaign of Democratic frontrunner Hillary Clinton on Thursday slammed a House Republican effort to overwrite a District of Columbia law that bans discrimination against employees who have had abortions.
Second-term abortions, which are common throughout the United States, are now effectively illegal in Kansas after Gov. Sam Brownback on Tuesday signed a law prohibiting physicians from "knowingly dismembering a living unborn child and extracting such unborn child one piece at a time from the uterus."
More than their white, black or Asian counterparts, Latino Millennials embrace conservative views on abortion care, according to a new survey. However, Latinos are reluctant to label themselves, and millennials of all backgrounds support contraception accessibility.
Arizona women may no longer be able to buy health insurance through the federal marketplace if their plans include abortion coverage after lawmakers passed a hotly debated bill that includes such restrictions.
Loretta Lynch’s U.S. Attorney General confirmation vote will likely be delayed due to the Senate’s gridlock on a human rights bill and language regarding abortion.
Dr. David A. Grimes, author of "Every Third Woman in America: How Legal Abortion Transformed Our Nation," spoke with Latin Post, detailing facts about the epidemic of unintended pregnancies in the U.S. and important truths regarding the realities of abortion.
El Salvador's Congress pardoned a woman who was sentenced to a 30-year prison term after complications lead to a miscarriage when she was just a teen, according to The Guardian.
More than half (53 percent) of reproductive care clinics, doctors and clinical workers faced threats in 2014, according to recent studies. And conservative forces continue to push aggressive and restrictive antiabortion legislation that leaves women without safe access.
Instead of voting on an anti-abortion bill that would prohibit women from terminating a pregnancy after the first 20 weeks, House Republicans decided to pass less restrictive legislation that seeks to stop taxpayer funding for abortions.
