Since Idaho’s abortion bans took effect almost four years ago, an Idaho doctor says he’s had to send patients out of state for medically necessary abortions for a range of pregnancy complications under which he used to be able to provide abortions. Dr. Stacy Seyb, who treats high-risk pregnancies as a maternal fetal medicine specialist, […]

Carrie Frail was in the process of leaving an abusive relationship when she discovered she was pregnant. Her partner told her he could hit her in the stomach until she had a miscarriage, and it would save some money. “I firmly believe he would have killed me at some point, whether accidentally or intentionally,” Frail […]

The court fight over mifepristone was never about the drug's safety, but about spreading confusion and hindering medication abortions, write Amy Hagstrom Miller and Christie Pitney, which is why Maryland needs to step up and protect patients and providers.

Black midwives in the South, a region rife with racial disparities in maternal health access and maternal mortality, are leading lawsuits over state regulations that they say limit their ability to provide care. Women behind the litigation say midwives can help improve birthing outcomes in Southern states, where maternal mortality rates are higher than the […]

The increasing costs of fuel for cars and airplanes is adding extra strain to abortion funds that help people pay to travel for care in other states, leaders of several funds said this week. Abortion funds can help when someone must travel from their home state to a state where care is available. That often […]

New data show the need for support for women seeking the procedure has nearly doubled in the four years following reversal of Roe v. Wade, with the number of calls for assistance reaching 158,000 in 2025, up from 82,000 calls in 2022. Since 2024, abortion funding costs have increased by 30% and costs for travel […]

Former Florida Chief Justice R. Fred Lewis has died at age 78, the court announced Thursday. His death came Tuesday, the court said in a press release. He will lie in state in the court’s rotunda on June 11 from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. The justices will receive the body and Chief Justice Carlos […]

A panel of judges in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit affirmed the federal district court’s decision to dismiss a lawsuit filed by Right to Life of Michigan challenging the state’s constitutional amendment enshrining abortion rights, agreeing with the initial dismissal that the plaintiffs lack standing in their suit. The suit argued […]

It’s still uncertain if an abortion medication can be prescribed over telehealth. Mifepristone is one of two drugs used to terminate a pregnancy before 10 weeks and to treat miscarriages, but could require an in-person visit before it’s dispensed, depending on a U.S. Supreme Court decision. In 2023, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration issued […]

Pregnant patients experiencing miscarriage who live in states with abortion bans have fewer options for healthcare management, according to a new study published by the Journal of the American Medical Association. The study, published May 18, found a shift away from managing miscarriages with a two-drug approach that includes mifepristone — which has been the […]

The U.S. Supreme Court decided Thursday to preserve telehealth access to the abortion drug mifepristone until after the U.S. 5th Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled on the merits of the high-stakes federal lawsuit Louisiana v. Food and Drug Administration.

WASHINGTON — U.S. Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Marty Makary on Tuesday became the latest member of President Donald Trump’s administration to leave their post this year. “I want to thank Dr. Marty Makary for having done a great job at the FDA. So much was accomplished under his leadership,” Trump wrote on social media. […]

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday extended a highly anticipated stay blocking an appellate court’s pause on telehealth abortion access until May 14. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s approved medication-abortion regimen remains available via telehealth until then, following a week of uncertainty among abortion patients and providers. “With this critical temporary administrative stay…

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday extended its stay on a circuit court ruling that would have halted access to telehealth abortion medication. The high court extended the week-old stay until Thursday, making the medication-abortion regimen available until then.AC

Strengthening local news is a commendable goal, but the Local News for Maryland Communities Act of 2026 is the wrong way to get there, writes J.H. Snider, who says it is protectionist, pro-incumbent legislation that will corrupt, not cure, independent media.

More than 500 Marylanders each month get abortion medication mailed to them via telehealth services, but even in an abortion-friendly state like Maryland advocates worry that care could become inaccessible after a Supreme Court ruling next week.

Both sides of the abortion debate are wondering what happens next in a telehealth medication court case that created chaos and confusion over the past week as one court blocked access to the abortion drug and the Supreme Court restored it -- until Monday.

The U.S. Supreme Court issued a temporary stay Monday on an appeals court ruling from Friday that was blocking remote access to an abortion drug, restoring access until at least May 11.

The U.S. Supreme Court issued a temporary stay on an appeals court ruling from Friday that was blocking remote access to an abortion drug, restoring access until at least May 11. The administrative stay, issued by Justice Samuel Alito, pauses Friday’s decision by the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals. That ruling blocked a 2023 rule […]

Researcher Caitlin Gerdts planned to release a new study about abortion access for active-duty military service members, much like the one in 2019 that was published with input from 323 participants. But over a six-month period in 2024, in a new legal environment for abortion access, the research team was only able to find three […]

A controversial rule enacted last year that denies federal Medicaid funding to abortion providers is likely to expire this summer, despite anti-abortion pressure on Republicans to renew it. Leaders in Congress in recent days have insisted that a new federal spending bill needs to be as stripped down as possible and focused on funding related […]

Some anti-abortion state lawmakers are pushing to revise the definition of “abortion” so abortion bans don’t apply to cases in which the death of an “unborn child” is the result of medical care provided to the pregnant woman. In the four years since the U.S. Supreme Court allowed states to ban abortion, stories continue to emerge of […]

A federal judge in Louisiana upheld telehealth access to abortion medication in a decision issued Tuesday afternoon, pausing the case until the U.S. Food and Drug Administration completes a safety review of the drug, mifepristone. U.S. District Judge David C. Joseph also ordered the FDA to conduct its review with “deliberate speed,” after reports in […]

It took three years, but a bill that would enshrine emergency abortion protections in state law won final approval in the House Thursday and is headed to the governor for his signature.

Maryland is reportedly one of 13 states that is being investigated by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, because the states require health insurance plans to cover abortion care.

Black women living in states with abortion bans were more likely to have preterm babies, compared with what would be expected in the absence of those bans, according to a study published in this month’s issue of the American Journal of Public Health. A lack of timely prenatal care can increase the risk of preterm […]

Republican lawmakers in several states so far this year introduced bills that would legally treat abortion as homicide. The proposed laws could have implications not just for pregnancy termination but for certain fertility treatments or even some forms of contraception. Despite broad unpopularity, even within the mainstream anti-abortion movement, the measures continue to be introduced and…

As telehealth access to abortion medication has grown in the years after the U.S. Supreme Court’s Dobbs decision, anti-abortion groups and attorneys general from states with abortion bans are accelerating efforts to ban access to the medication, including by attempting to revoke the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s approval. Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill sued […]

U.S. Sen. Josh Hawley filed legislation this week that would undo federal approval of mifepristone, a key abortion drug, nationwide. The move underscores the anti-abortion movement’s growing dissatisfaction with the Trump administration’s approach to the issue. “Congress must act now to protect the health and safety of women,” Hawley, a Republican from Missouri, said in a […]

Since the 2022 Dobbs decision by the U.S. Supreme Court, state governments decide how they’ll regulate abortion. This includes which organizations receive reproductive health funding. Crisis pregnancy centers, religiously affiliated organizations that advertise free pregnancy tests and ultrasounds but dissuade women from pursuing abortions, are seeing an influx of taxpayer dollars. At the same…