Geoff Mulvihill

Some residents of rural Illinois and Oregon are hoping to ditch their states and either join neighboring ones or create whole new states.

An Ohio law designating school bathrooms for use by people based on their sex at birth kicks in soon.

Abortion rights groups fear punishment for women who have abortions and governments tracking pregnancies.

Lawmakers in some states are pushing measures to crack down on abortion pills or penalize women who obtain abortions. Some of the efforts appear to be stalled this year.

President Donald Trump's effort to ban federal funding for gender-affirming care for young people is facing a legal challenge.

President Donald Trump has targeted the rights of transgender people in executive orders in his first two weeks back in office.

Members of the Sackler family who own OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma, and the company itself, agreed to pay up to $7.4 billion to settle lawsuits over the toll of the powerful prescription painkiller.

A federal judge in Texas is allowing three other states to pursue a challenge seeking to restrict access to the abortion pill mifepristone nationwide.

The battles over abortion in the U.S. are increasingly focusing on the pills that are now the most common way pregnancies are ended.

Arizona's governor wants to repeal the state law requiring an annual abortion report. Democrat Katie Hobbs says it can infringe on privacy for residents, even if it doesn't collect information such as patients' names and birthdates.