abortion

Carbondale is set to become the closest place with abortion access for millions of residents in the Midwest and South.

Access to abortion in Kentucky hangs in the balance. More pregnancies means more need for prenatal care in a state already lacking.

Kentucky’s only two abortion clinics say the restrictions on nearly all abortions run against the state’s constitution.

Abortion access remains unchanged in Kentucky, even after legislators passed a measure to limit the procedure. A federal case brought against the state resulted in a partial block on the

The impending reversal of Roe v. Wade generated a wave of questions.

A Tennessee abortion provider announced earlier this week it was opening a new location in southern Illinois that would serve people seeking abortions from surrounding states, including Kentucky, that could see the possibility of abortion bans enforced later this year.

The number of abortions carried out in Tennessee has been dropping for the last decade as Republicans have imposed more restrictions. At this point, Black women account for roughly half of all the state’s abortions, driving equity concerns as an all-out ban looms.

A leaked majority opinion from the U.S. Supreme Court would overturn Roe v. Wade, which has protected abortion rights since 1973.

The modified version will not include provisions abortion providers are already able to comply with.

Minutes after Kentucky’s Republican-led legislature overrode Democratic Gov. Andy Beshear’s veto of a sweeping anti-abortion bill, abortion rights advocates announced they they will sue to block it.