Roe v Wade

Experts call the money pouring into reproductive rights groups an example of "rage giving." Pro-choice advocates say their next challenge is building sustained support.

Anita Jimenez remembers what it was like when people had to travel out-of-state to access legal abortions. She shares how that affected her experience getting the procedure as a 15-year-old in New York.

The policy started the first week in July in Alabama, Arkansas, Idaho, Oklahoma, and Texas. CVS is asking care providers to help by including a diagnosis on the prescription.

More than half of the respondents say they feel at least somewhat “sad” or “angry” about the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade.

As more states outlaw abortion, some define human life as starting at fertilization. Some patients and health care workers worry that this could jeopardize in vitro fertilization treatments.

A coalition of groups says the states that haven't expanded Medicaid are more likely to restrict access to abortion and other reproductive care, and that makes it more important for residents to get health coverage.

The attorneys for abortion clinics and a physician filed a response after Attorney General Ashley Moody’s office last week requested that the case effectively bypass the 1st District Court of Appeal and go to the Florida Supreme Court.

The idea is to provide a clinic aboard a ship in federal waters, and out of reach of state laws, that would offer first-trimester surgical abortions, contraception and other care.

The request was part of a flurry of legal activity after Leon County Judge John Cooper issued a temporary injunction to block the law and the state filed an appeal, which keeps the ban in place.

WMFE spoke with Melanie Guldi, associate professor of economics at the University of Central Florida, about how Florida's new abortion law might affects you and the state economy.