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Life of the Mother

Georgia Judge Lifts Six-Week Abortion Ban After Deaths of Two Women Who Couldn’t Access Care

Abortion clinics rushed to provide care after a judge rejected the state’s ban, an order that could soon be paused by a higher court. It’s only the latest development since ProPublica reported the deaths of Amber Nicole Thurman and Candi Miller.

Life of the Mother

Did a Georgia Hospital Break Federal Law When It Failed to Save Amber Thurman? A Senate Committee Chair Wants Answers.

Thurman died after waiting 20 hours for emergency care under the state’s abortion ban. Sen. Ron Wyden demanded records his committee could review to determine whether the hospital violated the law. “It’s not even a question,” one expert said.

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39 stories published since 2013

Georgia Judge Lifts Six-Week Abortion Ban After Deaths of Two Women Who Couldn’t Access Care

Did a Georgia Hospital Break Federal Law When It Failed to Save Amber Thurman? A Senate Committee Chair Wants Answers.

How Do Abortion Pills Work? Answers to Frequently Asked Questions.

Abortion Bans Have Delayed Emergency Medical Care. In Georgia, Experts Say This Mother’s Death Was Preventable.

Missouri Outlawed Abortion, and Now It’s Funding an Anti-Abortion Group That Works in Other States

Texas Sends Millions to Crisis Pregnancy Centers. It’s Meant to Help Needy Families, But No One Knows if It Works.

Kristi Noem Said She Is Proud to “Support Babies, Moms, and Families.” Her Record Shows Otherwise, Critics Say.

Their States Banned Abortion. Doctors Now Say They Can’t Give Women Potentially Lifesaving Care.

The Year After a Denied Abortion

How Many of Your State’s Lawmakers Are Women? If You Live in the Southeast, It Could Be Just 1 in 5.

Some Republicans Were Willing to Compromise on Abortion Ban Exceptions. Activists Made Sure They Didn’t.

Voters in at Least 10 States Are Trying to Protect Abortion Rights. GOP Officials Are Throwing Up Roadblocks.

Idaho Banned Abortion. Then It Turned Down Supports for Pregnancies and Births.

Doctors Emerge as Political Force in Battle Over Abortion Laws in Ohio and Elsewhere

Maternal Deaths Are Expected to Rise Under Abortion Bans, but the Increase May Be Hard to Measure

Hospitals in Two States Denied an Abortion to a Miscarrying Patient. Investigators Say They Broke Federal Law.

How South Carolina Ended Up With an All-Male Supreme Court

How Abortion Bans Are Impacting Pregnant Patients Across the Country

Doctors Warned Her Pregnancy Could Kill Her. Then Tennessee Outlawed Abortion.

Minnesota May Chart Its Own Path Dealing With Anti-Abortion Counseling Centers

Tennessee Lobbyists Oppose New Lifesaving Exceptions in Abortion Ban

Here’s What States Are Doing to Abortion Rights in 2023

Websites Selling Abortion Pills Are Sharing Sensitive Data With Google

She Wanted an Abortion. A Judge Said She Wasn’t Mature Enough to Decide.

“We Need to Defend This Law”: Inside an Anti-Abortion Meeting With Tennessee’s GOP Lawmakers

Do U.S. Border Officials Ask Travelers if They’ve Had Abortions?

Are You in a State That Banned Abortion? Tell Us How Changes in Medical Care Impact You.

Minnesota Set to Become “Abortion Access Island” in the Midwest, but for Whom?

Her Ex-Husband Is Suing a Clinic Over the Abortion She Had Four Years Ago

How Missouri Helps Abortion Opponents Divert State Taxes to Crisis Pregnancy Centers

Draft Overturning Roe v. Wade Quotes Infamous Witch Trial Judge With Long-Discredited Ideas on Rape

“This Was Not a Surprise”: How the Pro-Choice Movement Lost the Battle for Roe

The Most Important Abortion Case You Never Heard About

U.S. Bishops Take Aim at Sterilization

This Alabama Judge Has Figured Out How to Dismantle Roe v. Wade

The Personhood Movement

A Stillborn Child, A Charge of Murder and the Disputed Case Law on 'Fetal Harm'

At a Catholic Hospital, a Dispute Over What a Doctor Can Do – and Say

California Poised to Broaden Access to Abortions