abortion

The U.S. Supreme Court this week declined to review a case challenging a since-repealed Carbondale, Illinois ordinance intended to create a buffer between anti-abortion activists and those seeking reproductive care.

Pro-life group challenges city’s now-repealed ‘buffer zone’ law, potentially reshaping protest laws nationwide

Hadley’s law would add exceptions for rape, incest and nonviable pregnancies, but has yet to be assigned a committee in the Senate. Now its sponsor is making a final desperate push to move the bill in the last two days of the session.

A year after the Supreme Court abortion ruling, advocates say it is “more dangerous and more deadly” to be pregnant in Tennessee

Saturday marks one year since the U.S. Supreme Court overturned its 1973 Roe v. Wade ruling. Here’s how the decision impacted Kentuckians and Hoosiers since then.

Advocates say it won’t help the state’s maternal mortality rate.

Tennessee State House members voted 83 to 11 to approve a measure adding narrow exemptions to the state’s abortion ban.

Tennessee Right to Life backs bill to make “affirmative defense” for physicians an exception.

With Kentucky’s abortion ban in effect, pregnant patients can’t get an abortion in the state unless their lives are at risk. That’s forcing some to seek care elsewhere. Out of Kentucky’s seven bordering states, only one has abortion protections. Alana Watson made the trip to an abortion provider in Illinois and documented moments along the way, to better understand what the process is for those seeking care.

In November, Kentuckians will vote on an amendment that would explicitly state there is no right to abortion in the state constitution. A group of panelists discussed the amendment on Friday and urged Kentuckians to vote it down, saying it would have devastating effects.