abortion rights

Published
August 1, 2022

The Conversation: After Roe’s overturning, Americans are demanding Supreme Court term limits
Published
July 30, 2022

Trying to change opinions about abortion, one door at a time

Planned Parenthood of Northern New England staff and volunteers spend a day taking the pulse, and trying to start conversations, with residents in Topsham.
Published
July 30, 2022

Overturning Roe v. Wade isn’t the end for abortion opponents

Anti-abortion groups are looking to the courts, lawmakers and elections to facilitate more abortion restrictions and bans after a landmark U.S. Supreme Court ruling in June left the issue up to states.
Published
July 29, 2022

Americans dismayed at end of Roe are less certain they will vote, poll finds

Fully 58% of the country supports a federal law establishing the right to an abortion before a fetus can survive outside the womb, the standard the Supreme Court enshrined for nearly 50 years and overturned last month.
Published
July 28, 2022

Justice Alito dismisses foreign criticism of Supreme Court’s abortion ruling

Justice Samuel Alito for the first time publicly spoke about the decision he authored reversing the constitutional right to abortion.

Published
July 24, 2022

Maine Voices: My abortions were safe, legal and pain-free. Everyone deserves that right.

The majority of Americans know it is fundamentally wrong to force someone into motherhood.
Published
July 22, 2022

St. Louis to help women get out-of-state abortions, despite state ban

The give-and-take is emblematic of city versus state battles playing out across the U.S. since June.
Published
July 20, 2022

Data privacy and abortion limits set to collide post-Roe

Privacy advocates sounded alarms that women should be vigilant in the types of data and content they share with fertility and health apps and through social media.
Published
July 20, 2022

Maine Voices: Men and women alike should fear the criminalization of abortion

All citizens have a responsibility to ensure that our laws do not permit third parties to control our bodies.
Published
July 16, 2022

Abortion at sea? Advocates in the U.S. get creative to protect access