Christine Fernando

The Women’s Health Protection Act is meant to restore abortion rights after the overturning of Roe v. Wade.

The leak of water containing tritium from “poses no health and safety risk to the local community or the environment,” Xcel Energy said.

Kacsmaryk did not make a decision during the hearing in Amarillo, Texas, but said a ruling would come “as soon as possible.”

When 12 Black women gathered in a Chicago hotel room in 1994, the debate on abortion access in the US was changed forever.

Unlike the more mainstream phrase “reproductive rights,” reproductive justice uses a human rights lens to go beyond abortion rights.

The reproductive justice framework was created by Black women in response to an abortion rights movement that centered the needs of white women.

South Carolina is one of two states in the country that criminalizes self-managed abortions, experts told USA TODAY. The other state is Nevada.

A group of 20 Republican attorneys general warned CVS and Walgreens in a letter last month not to sell abortion pills in their states.

A coalition of 196 human rights groups, including Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International and the Global Justice Center, sent the letter to the UN.

Fertility doctors say they’ve gotten waves of calls from patients wanting to move embryos as some abortion laws threaten IVF access.