Abortion

Rare across-the-aisle coöperation in Austin aims to protect the lives of some women who need abortions—and protect their doctors from prosecution.

Understanding the current politics around abortion, Arizona’s Civil War-era ban, and how the issue of reproductive health care will affect both parties’ chances in November.

Rare across-the-aisle coöperation in Austin aims to protect some people who need abortions and the doctors who provide them. Plus, a band rehearsal with the songwriter and actor Maya Hawke.

On abortion, Arizona, and the 2024 Presidential election.

In nineteenth-century New York, abortion was shrouded in secrecy and stigma. But, for Madame Restell, there was no such thing as bad press.

A newly translated novel by the Argentinean writer Sara Gallardo provides a missing link in the history of abortion literature.

Jeremy Workman and Robert Lyons’s film reconstructs the passage of a 1970 law that made the state a sanctuary for people seeking abortions, and cost a lawmaker his career.

After the fall of Roe v. Wade, North Dakota’s Red River Women’s Clinic moved two miles away, into Minnesota and a new political reality.

The former President is less committed than the other 2024 G.O.P. front-runners on the subject of abortion. Shouldn’t advocates of tighter restrictions be jumping ship?

The staff writers return to The Political Scene to discuss the state of abortion rights and what has changed since the Dobbs decision.

Fearing legal repercussions, doctors in Texas say they are risking grave patient harm to comply with new abortion restrictions.

As the fate of abortion medication hangs in the balance, our political roundtable looks at the right’s broader attack on the regulatory state.

A nationwide ban on mifepristone would further erode doctors’ ability to provide—or learn how to provide—lifesaving care.

The race for control of Wisconsin’s Supreme Court could change the course of the entire country.

Republican state attorneys general are threatening action against pharmacies that dispense it, as a federal lawsuit challenges the F.D.A.’s authority to approve it.

If a Texas lawsuit prevails, mifepristone will no longer be available anywhere in the nation, even in states where abortion is legal.

In Sofia Georgovassili’s short film, drawn from life, a teen-ager and her friends go on a pivotal excursion in the course of a school day.

Our political roundtable discusses the scant attention paid to abortion rights, China, and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in the President’s address.

What exactly does “woke” mean, and how did it become so powerful? Plus, the contributing writer Eren Orbey on the custody battles facing mothers of children conceived in rape.

This raucously pro-choice musical, by the Philadelphia-based theatre collective Lightning Rod Special, sniffs out taboos and hunts them down at the pace of a sprint.