Women

Guardian UK - The US supreme court’s decision to overturn Roe v Wade may have abolished the national right to abortion, but the state-by-state battle for abortion rights is far from over.Since Roe was overturned in 2022, 14 states have enacted near-total abortion bans, while two states – Georgia and South Carolina – have banned abortion past roughly six weeks of pregnancy. Other states have enacted laws or held ballot referendums to protect abortion rights.

NPR - Abortion is back at the Supreme Court today, as anti-abortion doctors challenge FDA regulations that make abortion pills more accessible. More than half of American women who choose to terminate a pregnancy do so with a two-drug combination that includes mifepristone — the drug at the heart of this case. The Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine seeks to roll back the FDA's loosened restrictions on mifepristone. ​​​​​​"There's more at stake than abortion rights," NPR's Nina Totenberg reports. "It's the entire structure of the FDA's regulatory power to approve drugs, continually evaluate their safety and lift restrictions found to be unnecessary." She says this system has until now been widely viewed as the gold standard of safety and innovation in the U.S. and abroad.