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WEDNESDAY, June 11, 2025 (HealthDay News) — Pregnant women are more likely to have poorer health care in states that ban or restrict abortion, a new study says.
Expectant mothers are more often uninsured and have less access to routine medical care in those states, researc...
- Dennis Thompson HealthDay Reporter
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- June 11, 2025
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FRIDAY, June 6, 2025 (HealthDay News) — Attorneys general from four states are asking the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to lift restrictions on mifepristone, a pill used in medication abortions.
The request came Thursday from top officials in California, Massachusetts, New Jersey and New York.
They said in a petit...
- I. Edwards HealthDay Reporter
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- June 6, 2025
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THURSDAY, June 5, 2025 (HealthDay News) — U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has ordered a fresh safety review of mifepristone, a drug commonly used in medication abortions.
He asked Dr. Marty Makary, commission...
- I. Edwards HealthDay Reporter
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- June 5, 2025
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THURSDAY, June 5, 2025 (HealthDay News) — As many as 1 in 5 women say they’ve sought care at fake medical clinics with an anti-abortion agenda, a new study says.
Between 12% to 20% of 18- to 44-year-old women in four states – Arizona, Wisconsin, Iowa and New Jersey – say they’ve sought care at a pregnancy crisis center, according to report published June 4 in...
- Dennis Thompson HealthDay Reporter
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- June 5, 2025
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WEDNESDAY, April 23, 2025 -- Three years after the U.S. Supreme Court ended the federal right to abortion, doctors who specialize in obstetrics and gynecology are still dealing with tough decisions about where to live and work.
A new study published in JAMA Network Open shows that most OB/GYNS didn...
Fewer Americans traveled out of state for an abortion in 2024, according to a new report from the Guttmacher Institute, a group that supports abortion rights.
The report found that about 155,000 people crossed state lines for abortion care last year, down 9% from 2023.
The total number of abortions stayed steady, however, with 1,038,10...
A brain drain is underway in states that banned or severely restricted abortion after the fall of Roe v Wade, a new study suggests.
A significant decline in the number of practicing obstetricians/gynecologists has occurred in the 12 most restrictive states, according to findings published March 10 in
In the first 18 months after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, most states with abortion bans saw a rise in infant deaths, new research reveals.
Two studies, published Feb. 13 in
When one abortion pill faces lawsuits, another may be waiting in the wings, a new study suggests.
The study, published Jan. 23 in the journal NEJM Evidence, has found a potential alternative to the abortion pill mifepristone, offering yet another option at ...
Efforts to limit access to the abortion drug mifepristone have gotten boost from a federal judge who took the bench during President Donald Trump's first term.
U.S. District Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk ruled that Missouri, Kansas and Idaho can move ahead with a lawsuit seeking to revamp prescribing and use of the drug. ...
- Carole Tanzer Miller HealthDay Reporter
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- January 22, 2025
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Abortion information is disappearing from federal government websites, signaling potential changes in abortion under the second Trump administration.
ReproductiveRights.gov, a site launched under the Biden administration to provide resources on abortion and
Women who live far from an abortion clinic depend on telehealth and mail to obtain access to medication abortion, a new study says.
Each 100-mile increase in distance from an abortion provider increased telehealth requests for abortion pills by about 61%, researchers repor...
- Dennis Thompson HealthDay Reporter
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- January 15, 2025
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Relying on natural and fertility awareness methods to prevent pregnancy might be linked to an increase in abortions, a new study suggests.
Use of hormonal birth control methods like the pill has declined by nearly half among women seeking an abortion in the United Kingdom, researchers reported in a study published Jan. 13 in the journal
In a pivotal move, the United States Supreme Court announced Wednesday that it will review South Carolina's controversial decision to cut off state funding for Planned Parenthood clinics, which provide critical health services to low-income residents.
A media report published by The Washington Post shows said that this move was made after the state terminated its agreement with t...
Abortion pills are safe and effective, but some pain will be part of the process for most women.
However, many women are surprised by exactly how much pain is involved in a medication abortion, a new study says.
They’re frequently told that the pain is akin to period cra...
A New York doctor has been sued by the state of Texas for prescribing abortion pills via telehealth to a Dallas woman.
In a news release announcing the filing of the lawsuit, Texas Attorney General
President-elect Donald Trump is calling for an end to daylight saving time, a practice he described as inconvenient and costly.
“The Republican Party will use its best efforts to eliminate Daylight Saving Time, which has a small but strong constituency, but shouldn’t!” Trump wrote in an X post on...
So-called crisis pregnancy centers, often created with an anti-abortion agenda, are providing pregnant women some questionable medical advice alongside potentially helpful services, a new study finds.
Nearly a third (30%) of crisis pregnancy centers promote “abortion pill reversal,” researchers reported Dec. 3 in the journal
The rate and number of abortions among U.S. women took a slight dip in 2022 compared to 2021, according to the latest data from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
In late June of 2022, the U.S. Supreme Court
Two Wyoming abortion bans, including the first state law to prohibit the use of abortion pills, violate the state's constitution, a judge ruled Monday.
In her decision, Judge Melissa Owens, of Teton County District Court, wrote that both a ban on medication abortion and a broade...
In the wake of Donald Trump's victory in the presidential election, retailers report that online sales of emergency contraceptives have soared.
The spike in purchases of what is also known as the morning-after pill or Plan B suggests women worry the incoming administration might soon limit their access to emergency contraception, Monica C...
One piece left out of the abortion debate is the high transportation and medical bills facing women forced to leave their state to obtain the procedure.
A new study is the first to give hard numbers on those concerns.
It finds that, even before the fall of Roe v. Wade, 65% of women who traveled to another state to undergo abortion incurred "catastrophic" bills causing them...
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- November 8, 2024
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More than 1 in 5 Americans likely suffer from long COVID, a new AI-assisted review has found.
The analysis suggests that nearly 23% of U.S. adults experience the symptoms of long COVID, according to results published Nov. 8 in the journal Med.
That’s much higher than the 7% prevalence of long COVID that’s ...
- Dennis Thompson HealthDay Reporter
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- November 8, 2024
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Abortion pills are safe and effective even very early in a pregnancy, a new study finds.
Clinics and hospitals tend to defer medication abortions until a woman’s pregnancy is confirmed using ultrasound, researchers said.
But abortion pills can be safely taken prior to the sixth week of pregnancy, researchers reported Nov. 6 in the
In election results that showed protecting women's reproductive freedoms matter to a majority of Americans, abortion rights measures passed in seven states and failed in three.
Missouri, Arizona, Nevada, Colorado, New York, Maryland and Montana all backed those rights, while such amendments were defeated in Florida, Nebraska and South Dakota, leaving those state bans intact.
Voters ...
A new report shows the number of women getting abortions in the United States has actually increased since the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade.
Since March 2023, the #WeCount report found a small, consistent increase in abortion rates. In the first six months of 2024, the monthly n...
The United States experienced a small but significant rise in infant deaths in the months following the U.S. Supreme Court's decision overturned Roe v. Wade, a new study shows.
The Dobbs ruling, handed down in July of 2022, led to outright bans on abortion in 14 states and tighter restrictions in eight others.
According to researchers, forcing women to carry "frail fetuses" to term ...
More than a third of women don’t know they are pregnant in time to meet the six-week abortion ban active in four U.S. states, a new study finds.
About 37% of women who got an abortion in 2021 and 2022 discovered they were pregnant at six weeks or later, according to findings from the sexual and...
For the second time this year, the Senate plans to vote Tuesday on a law that would create a nationwide right to IVF.
The bill was already blocked by Republicans earlier this year, but Democrats are hoping to use this second vote to pressure Republican congressional candidates on the hot button issue, the Associated Press reported.
The push to establish national protections...
- Robin Foster HealthDay Reporter
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- September 17, 2024
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Florida’s six-week abortion ban caused the state’s abortion rate to drop dramatically, new research shows.
Abortions in Florida dropped to an estimated 5,630 in May and 5,200 in June, a 30% and 35% decrease from the average between January and March, data released Thursday shows.
“Our data pa...
As fears of the consequences of an unintended pregnancy rose after Roe v. Wade was overturned in 2022, rates of surgical sterilization rose in those states most affected by the decision, new research shows.
Rates of tubal sterilization -- tying, cutting or removing the fallopian tubes -- rose by an average 3% per month in states where abortion became illegal after the Supreme Court ruling...
States with the most severe abortion restrictions are the least likely to offer support to struggling families, a new study has found.
Anti-abortion states tend to have assistance programs that exclude many families on the fringes, because participants are required to be poorer to qualify, researchers found.
These states also are less likely to have family-friendly policies like pai...
Ever since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in June 2022, even more women have struggled to find reproductive care, a new report warns.
Issued Thursday by the Commonwealth Fund, the report shows that women living in states long plagued by health d...
- Robin Foster HealthDay Reporter
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- July 18, 2024
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Two years after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, more Americans think their state should allow a woman to get a legal abortion for any reason, a new poll finds.
Just over 6 in 10 of those questioned say women should have that right, compared to just under 50% of Americans who held the same belief in 2021, the new
The U.S. Supreme Court appears ready to rule that, for now, emergency abortions be allowed in Idaho when a woman's health is at risk, an opinion that was briefly posted on the court's website on Wednesday shows.
The unsigned opinion, published first by Bloomberg News, only dismiss...
- Robin Foster HealthDay Reporter
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- June 27, 2024
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Post-Dobbs bans and restrictions on abortion are having a spillover effect in reducing the use of birth control and emergency contraception in those states most affected, a new study shows.
Why the troubling trend? The study's author believes the demise of Roe v. Wade in 2022 triggered the closure of many family planning clinics.
"Because 11% of women rely on such clinics for the ...
- Ernie Mundell HealthDay Reporter
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- June 26, 2024
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Following state legislation passed in 2021 that essentially banned abortion in Texas, the rate of infant deaths rose by almost 13%, compared to a much smaller 1.8% rise nationwide, a new study finds.
The number of Texan babies whose deaths were specifically linked to birth defects also jumped by 22.9% in 2022, the year after the ban was put in place. In the rest of the United States, suc...
Women don't need an ultrasound to have a safe medication abortion, a new study says.
Women who received abortion pills by mail without getting an ultrasound first did just as well as those who were examined and given the drugs in person, researchers found.
"This study adds to a growing and robust body of evidence demonstrating the effectiveness and safety of medication abortion with...
The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday threw out a case that aimed to curb access to the controversial abortion drug mifepristone, saying the plaintiffs who brought the case to the court had no legal standing to do so.
In a unanimous vote, the nine judges ruled that ...
Following the fall of Roe v. Wade in the summer of 2022, there's been a surge in women from as far away as Texas and Florida traveling to Washington state to have a legal abortion, new data shows.
The study focused on the Cedar River Clinics, a network of care sites in Washington providing abortion services. Data was collected for the years 2017 through the end of July 2023.
The re...
Louisiana has become the first state to pass a law that designates abortion pills as dangerous controlled substances.
Once Gov. Jeff Landry signs the bill into law, as he is expected to do, possession of the drugs mifepristone and misoprostol ...
While some states have moved to severely curb women's access to abortion, including abortion pills, over 8,000 women living in those states are getting the pills by mail each month from states without such restrictions.
That's according to new data from a #WeCount survey conduc...
Women who get abortion pills through the mail receive care that's as good as those who are required to get them in person from a clinic or doctor's office, a new study says.
Using a mail-order pharmacy to deliver the drugs after an in-person assessment was both safe and effective, according to findings published in JAMA Internal Medicine.
Patients also appreciated the priva...
As the battle over abortion continues to rage in the courts and American politics, a new report estimates that one in every four U.S. women will undergo the procedure during their lifetime.
The study was issued by the Guttmacher Institute, a research and policy organization focused on sexual and reproductive health that supports access to abortion.
Researchers there surv...
An increasing number of young men and women have decided they never want parenthood in the wake of the Dobbs decision revoking the constitutional right to an abortion, a new study finds.
The number of young adults opting to undergo a permanent sterilization procedure abruptly increased nationwide following the June 2022 decision by the U.S. Supreme Court that overturned Roe v. Wade, resea...
- Dennis Thompson HealthDay Reporter
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- April 12, 2024
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Following oral arguments presented on Tuesday, the U.S. Supreme Court looked poised to rebuff a legal challenge to women's access to the abortion pill.
Mifepristone is part of a two-drug regimen now used for the
As the U.S. Supreme Court prepares to hear arguments Tuesday in a case that could determine nationwide access to the abortion pill, a new study finds requests for the medication made outside the traditional health care system surged after Roe v. Wade was overturned.
There were about 26,000 more self-managed medication abortions than expected, based on trends before the ruling, researchers...
Following the historic reversal of Roe v. Wade in June of 2022, the number of abortions in the United States has risen to more than a million per year, with medication abortions representing nearly two-thirds of those cases.
The numbers come from a new report...
Abortion rights will play a pivotal role in determining how people will vote in the 2024 election, a new KFF poll has found.
About one in eight voters (12%) now say abortion is the most important issue for their vote in the upcoming elections.
Further, around half of voters overall say this year's presidential election (51%), Congressional election (53%), and which party controls th...