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SACRAMENTO — California state lawmakers are expected as soon as Monday to put a state constitutional amendment on the ballot that would explicitly protect reproductive rights.The amendment, which would go to California...

At first glance, she looked like a rag doll.The body of a newborn girl appeared outside a couple’s home in Frenchville, in northern Maine, on a cold morning in December 1985. Their...

A new and rapidly shifting reality took hold across America on Saturday as abortion, a basic legal right for nearly a half century, was outlawed in some states, and the initial bursts...

After carefully weighing whether she was ready to have a child, a 21-year-old woman in West Virginia called the state’s lone abortion clinic on Thursday and scheduled an appointment for early July.But...

In his concurring opinion to the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, Justice Brett M. Kavanaugh struck a note of optimism that democracy and the will of the people would...

Abortion has become or will soon become illegal in more than a dozen states whose legislatures had passed so-called trigger laws, allowing for bans shortly after the Supreme Court decision overturning Roe...

“We’re taking so many steps back,” Ms. McBride, 24, said. “I’ve always been a believer that older men should not be making decisions about women’s bodies. As a single woman in my...

WASHINGTON — Calling the Supreme Court’s reversal of Roe v. Wade a “tragic error,” President Biden on Friday tried to galvanize voters ahead of the midterm elections and called on Americans to...

Birth control remains legal everywhere in the United States, though several states allow doctors and pharmacists to refuse to prescribe or dispense contraceptives, according to the Guttmacher Institute. The Supreme Court decision...

Tens of millions of Americans face an onslaught of litigation and legislative revision after a sweeping Supreme Court decision making it easier to carry a firearm in public upended gun control laws...