Society / This Black Maternal Health Week, it’s time to acknowledge this simple truth: Abortion care is maternal healthcare.

Bills introduced in at least 12 states this year would allow prosecutors to charge those who have abortions with homicide.

For the first time since Texas outlawed nearly all abortions, lawmakers are clarifying the "life of mother" exception. But ...

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — A new executive order from President Donald Trump that’s part of his effort to invigorate energy production raises the possibility that his Department of Justice will go to ...

Texas has some of the most extreme abortion laws in the country — so extreme that doctors are scared that treating pregnant women in medical crises or helping someone understand their rights ...

A Texas judge last month ordered Dr. Margaret Carpenter, who practices north of New York City, to pay the penalty for allegedly breaking that state's law by prescribing abortion medication via ...

The bill comes after ProPublica’s reporting on the deaths of three Texas women. It specifies that doctors don’t need to wait ...

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton's case against the doctor set up an interstate legal battle that could change ... "shield laws" — laws intended to prevent states with abortion bans, like ...

Amanda Zurawski, who developed sepsis and nearly died after being refused an abortion when her water broke at 18 weeks, center, listens to her attorney Molly Duane, right, outside the Travis ...

AUSTIN, Texas — A Texas Senate panel ... the “Life of the Mother Act,” does not expand abortion access or change any exceptions to the law but aims to clarify the existing law.