Roe v. Wade

With Roe v. Wade overturned, some states could revive antiabortion laws from as far back as 1849. Here’s what life was like for women at the time.

DHHS says federal law on emergency treatment guidelines preempts state laws in jurisdictions that now ban the procedure without any exceptions following the Supreme Court’s decision to end a constitutional right to abortion.

In Anchorage, abortion rights supporters described their own experiences and how tenuous protections for abortion access seemed to be. Other events were held in Fairbanks, Homer and Juneau.

Planned Parenthood Alliance Advocates Alaska is holding events in Anchorage, Fairbanks, Juneau and Homer.

Lisa Murkowski sets herself apart in the U.S. Senate as one of few Republicans openly supporting abortion access — and she is the only one facing reelection this year.

Here’s a rundown on what abortion access looks like in Alaska.

At issue was a long-dormant 1925 criminal law that targets individuals who perform abortions.

The evolving legal landscape around abortion access is causing confusion for providers and patients across the country after the overturning of Roe v. Wade.

Google and other tech companies are under pressure to limit the data they collect, which could now be used in abortion-related prosecutions.

The fall of Roe v. Wade shifted the battleground over abortion to courthouses around the country Monday, as one side sought quickly to put statewide bans into effect and the other tried to stop or at least delay such measures.

Democrats who will face voters in November seized on the Supreme Court decision, putting abortion rights at the center of their campaigns. The Republicans they are facing largely remained quiet, with some GOP strategists acknowledging that the issue might not be good for their candidates.

The annual marches in New York, San Francisco, Chicago and elsewhere take place after at least one Supreme Court justice signaled, in a ruling on abortion, that the court could reconsider the right to same-sex marriage recognized in 2015.

Antiabortion activists are eager to enshrine constitutional abortion bans and push Congress to pass a national one, prohibit abortion pills, and limit people’s ability to get abortions across state lines.

The Supreme Court’s decision that women have no constitutional right to an abortion marked the apex of a week that reinforced Donald Trump’s grip on Washington more than a year and a half after he exited the White House.

If a right so central to the overall fight for women’s equality can be revoked, some advocates wonder: What does this mean for the progress women have made in public life in the intervening 50 years?

Simple privacy precautions anyone can take when researching or arranging an abortion in the United States.

Some elected officials are vowing to protect women’s access to abortion, while opponents of the procedure say their fight is far from over.

Some companies said they’ll cover travel costs for employees who must go out of state to get an abortion while many others remained silent on the issue.

Organizers spoke at Town Square Park to call for unity and solidarity.

For many Americans, the court’s action took the country back to a time when White men held all of the power and most of the rights.

The court’s overturning of Roe v. Wade is likely to lead to the greatest tensions between states with competing laws since the Civil War.

The implications are both staggering and impossible to predict, other than that ending the right to abortion will have profound effects on women while adding to the cultural and political balkanization of America.

Reinforced by Trump appointments, conservatives take on controversies dear to the right.

An abortion clinic in San Antonio was forced to turn away patients in the waiting room as the Supreme Court overturned Roe vs. Wade.

Some Republicans were already eyeing new abortion restrictions, making clear that the Supreme Court’s momentous decision Friday was not the end for the antiabortion movement.