In the run-up to the 2024 election, many observers — from political scientists to think tanks, from pollsters to opinion writers — believed abortion would buoy Democrats to electoral victory. In an average of polls conducted in September and October 2021,

Galvanized by a pivotal election almost two years after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned federal abortion protections, patients, doctors, and activists in 2024 fought for renewed and expanded reproductive rights,

Democrats gambled the abortion issue would help them win in 2024. But research showed Republicans the pitfalls of how to handle that issue. Trump and Vance responded with empathy.

President-elect Donald Trump’s choice to be the government’s top lawyer before the Supreme Court burst on the national scene about a year ago and is best known for winning Trump immunity from prosecution for election subversion.

Republican lawmakers have proposed a number of constitutional amendments that would overturn Amendment 3. Some include exceptions for survivors of rape or incest, a departure from the party’s recent stance on abortion.

Kansas voters gave Republicans bigger supermajorities in the Legislature two years after voters rejected an anti-abortion constitutional amendment.

The Wisconsin Supreme Court is taking up cases that will determine whether people can continue to lawfully access abortion health care in the state. There's also an election for a seat that will determine the court's ideological balance.

Americans still support abortion rights, but they didn't prioritize the issue. In the run-up to the 2024 election, many observers — from political scientists to think tanks, from pollsters to ...

A judge has ruled that Missouri’s near-total abortion ban is unenforceable under a new constitutional amendment.

The passage of abortion rights measures is encouraging, but state bans pose a mortal threat to women.

Most abortion-rights ballot measures succeeded this year, but November marked the first time since the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade that some citizen-led bids to restore access failed. Organizers with campaigns in Arkansas,