There are 21.4 million women in the U.S. who need subsidized birth control living in a county somewhere with limited access. That’s the major takeaway from a new analysis of contraception access from two reproductive policy organizations, Power to Decide and the Guttmacher Institute, shared exclusively with NPR. Both organizations are nonprofit and nonpartisan, and … Read more
For the second year in a row, abortion providers performed more than 1m abortions in the United States in 2024. About 155,000 people crossed state lines for abortions – roughly double the number of patients who did so in 2020, before the US supreme court overturned Roe v Wade and paved the way for more … Read more
Texas records just 17 abortions in four months in likely vast undercount “We know from data around the world that when we have extremely oppressive and repressive governments, we can’t trust vital statistics from those governments,” said Dr Ghazaleh Moayedi, a Texas OB-GYN and board chair-elect of the national group Physicians for Reproductive Health. Read … Read more
