Abortion

With the GOP in control of state government and “a favorable backstop from the courts, it’s going to be a no-holds-barred approach for Republicans on abortion,” one political science professor said.

The high court vacated two rulings from the lower U.S. 5th Circuit Court of Appeals that sided with Texas GOP officials arguing that Gov. Greg Abbott’s March 2020 executive order prohibited abortion under all but a few narrow circumstances in an attempt to preserve medical resources for COVID-19 patients.

President Biden is only the nation's second Catholic president, but his position on abortion rights is at odds with the church.

Pre-pandemic, patients were required to go in person to get the abortion pill. COVID-19 prompted an easing of that restriction for patients seeking to…

As more healthcare moves to online and telemedicine, some patients seeking abortions using pills are running into obstacles.

President Trump aims to rally U.S. Catholics to support his reelection. The effort is dividing Catholics along partisan lines and within congregations.

Planned Parenthood facilities are reporting a more than sevenfold increase in patients from Texas. The ban was put in place because of the coronavirus but having to travel can increase patients' risk.

In what has been an ongoing legal dispute over Texans' access to abortion during the new coronavirus pandemic, abortion providers on Saturday asked the…

On March 23, Texas Governor Abbott issued an order postponing all elective operations and procedures that are not “immediately medically necessary,"…

Republican officials in several states are trying to ban abortion during the coronavirus pandemic to preserve medical supplies.