The anti-abortion movement is testing new strategies to force a legal confrontation over so-called shield laws in Democratic-led states that protect abortion providers in those states from prosecution ...

The case centers on the Texas Heartbeat Act, a 2021 law that bans abortions after cardiac activity is detected and lets ...

Though living in a state with a near-total abortion ban, Texans can be prescribed and mailed mifepristone and misoprostol pills by out-of-state medical providers, making at-home medicated abortions ...

Health care policies -- from abortion laws to vaccine rules -- are changing rapidly at the national and state level. Here are ...

Republican Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has signed a first-of-its-kind law that lets anyone sue prescribers and others responsible for getting abortion pills into the state. Supporters are heralding the law ...

While the race for Texas governor is in the early stages, Democratic frontrunner Gina Hinojosa and Gov. Greg Abbott took on the abortion issue.

Texas’ massive new abortion law taking effect this week could escalate the national fight over mailing abortion pills. House Bill 7 represents abortion opponents’ most ambitious effort to halt ...

It’s easy to forget that Texas’s bounty bill, S.B. 8, was once at the epicenter of the nation’s abortion politics.

On Friday, the Third Court of Appeals in Austin cleared the way for three Planned Parenthood affiliates to keep pressing a ...

The court may decide whether a particular challenge to Texas' Senate Bill 8, also known as the Texas Heartbeat Act, has a ...

Texas lawmakers on Wednesday approved letting private citizens sue abortion pill manufacturers, doctors and anyone who mails the medication, setting the state up to be the first to try to crack down ...

Planned Parenthood can challenge Texas’ bounty-like abortion law that offers private citizens $10,000 for reporting an ...