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In requesting a hearing, the East Cypress Women’s Center said ACHA's allegations that it did not properly comply with a law requiring the waiting period "omit certain facts and mischaracterize others.”

Increasing numbers of physicians and families nationwide say a post-Roe fear has come to pass: Pregnant women with dangerous medical conditions are showing up in hospitals and doctors’ offices and being denied the abortions that could help treat them.

Abortion bans in several states allow exemptions for life-threatening health emergencies, but they say mental health crises don't count. They include Florida.

The ruling by a judge in Fulton County applies statewide. It says the abortion limit violated the U.S. Constitution and U.S. Supreme Court precedent at the time it became law in 2019.

State law at the time prohibited abortion after around 6 weeks. Legal experts say this kind of law leaves doctors uncertain of what's legal and can put patients in dangerous situations.

Voters in Michigan have enshrined abortion rights in the state constitution, joining California and Vermont. Anti-abortion measures failed in Kentucky and Montana.

Science Friday and KHN ran numbers on birth control failure. Depending on the method, typical-use error rates can add up to hundreds of thousands of unplanned pregnancies each year.

Some people who filled out WUSF's Citizens Agenda say they will vote for candidates pledging to protect access to abortion and other forms of health care.

Federal officials are investigating after reports that a woman whose water broke at 18 weeks could not get recommended care because hospital officials were concerned about Missouri’s strict abortion law.

Carrying an unwanted pregnancy quadruples the odds that a new mother and her child will live below the poverty line and triples the chances of the mother being unemployed, according to the groundbreaking research project,