A third bill to remove the rape exception from West Virginia’s total abortion ban has hit the state’s legislature—all within a two-week period.

With abortion policy left to the states, far-right GOP lawmakers in nearly a dozen ultraconservative states — already with some of the nation's strictest abortion bans — are trying to tighten the reigns even more for pregnant people by opening them up to murder charges.

Republicans at a Right to Life rally in Frankfort emphasized a need to maintain the state’s strict abortion ban without exceptions. Meanwhile, GOP bills to add exceptions haven’t moved.

Republican lawmakers are advancing what could be a head-on challenge to the options women have under the newly approved constitutional amendment guaranteeing a fundamental right to terminate a pregnancy.

Private, unidentified security personnel dragged a woman out of the event. It raises questions not just about tolerance for dissent but about who gets deputized to do what.

North Dakota and Tennessee have passed similar laws in recent years with support from the anti-abortion group that makes the “Baby Olivia” video.

A group of Republican lawmakers want to remove the rape and incest exception in West Virginia’s near total abortion ban. It’s one of several abortion-related measures introduced so far this session in the overwhelming Republican legislature that aim to discourage individuals from having the procedure.

Republicans in Montana have introduced a bill that would charge women in Montana with "trafficking" their own fetuses if they travel to receive an abortion out of state, even if abortion is legal in the state where they received the procedure.

Senate Democrats have threatened to filibuster any effort to overturn the voter-approved amendment legalizing abortion. In addition to GOP lawmakers seeking to put abortion back on the statewide ballot, Coleman said a group of attorneys is separately ...

Abortions resumed in Missouri over the weekend following a ruling blocking regulations that clinics said made it impossible to provide abortions despite a new constitutional amendment for reproductive rights,

An Arizona House committee has approved legislation that would impose new requirements and restrictions on abortion-inducing drugs, and another measure could affect health clinic funding if the

Twenty-four hours after a GOP Sen. withdrew his bill to get rid of the rape exception—because he was getting threats—a GOP Del. introduced an identical bill. "Why are we doing this?" the House Minority Leader,