If it had gone into effect, abortion would have been illegal from the moment of conception.

“Access to abortion is hanging by a thread in this country, and this case is what could snap that thread.”

The 18,000-square foot facility is located in Illinois—just 13 miles from Missouri’s lone abortion clinic, which is currently under fire.

Support is highest among women of color and people who live in abortion battleground states.

But new restrictions—including for cases of fetal Down Syndrome—were allowed to go into effect.

“We believe that the Trump administration is doing this as an attack on reproductive health care and to keep providers like Planned Parenthood from serving our patients.” 

Alexis McGill Johnson talks to Colorlines about bringing her life’s work as a racial justice organizer to the reproductive health care organization.

Dr. Leana Wen, who is leaving after eight months, maintains that abortion is a health care—not political—issue.

More than 80 organizations wrote a manifesto to bring about new policies even as growing conservatism seeks to limit access to reproductive care.

Abortion providers in 49 states will lose federal money if they refer patients for the medical procedure.

Host Kai Wright tours one of just three clinics that provide the medical procedure in the entire state.

It is the first time a city has used its budget to step into the national abortion battle.

A judge temporarily stopped the state from revoking St. Louis Planned Parenthood’s license.

The justices did not rule on the part of the law that addresses the constitutionality of the medical procedure.

In his ruling, United States District Judge Carlton W. Reeves began with four telling words: “Here we go again.” 

The nation’s most restrictive law was drafted with the hope that it will lead to the Supreme Court overturning Roe v. Wade.

Nearly $3 billion was spent in the state on television and film shoots last year. Now, producers are using that leverage to protest the restrictive law.

A federal judge called the regulation a “ham-fisted approach to public health policy’” that would harm lower-income earning women.