Reproductive Rights

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

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

The law will benefit the students at public universities in the state, who are predominantly people of color and may face geographic and economic hurdles to obtaining the medical procedure.

“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.” 

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

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

In the first study of its kind, researchers looked at illness in people denied abortions compared to those who were able to obtain the medical procedure.

Activists from nine organizations stood up for Black people’s bodies on the steps of Connecticut’s State Supreme Court.

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