Number of abortions in the U.S. holds steady at 1.1 million, a new report says : NPR

"There were an estimated 1,126,000 abortions provided by clinicians in the U.S. in 2025 — that's pretty much unchanged from 2024," says Isaac Maddow-Zimet, data scientist at the Guttmacher Institute, a nonprofit research organization that supports abortion access...

https://www.npr.org/2026/03/24/nx-s1-5757550/abortion-telemedicine-travel-mifepristone-misoprostol 

 

Georgia woman charged with murder after police say she took pills to induce abortion

If prosecuted, case against 31-year-old would be one of first in Georgia since it passed 2019 law banning most abortions…

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/mar/19/georgia-murder-charges-abortion

 

Governor signs law classifying abortion pills as dangerous substances

First-of-its-kind legislation signed Friday classifies mifepristone and misoprostol as controlled substances

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/may/24/louisiana-abortion-pills-dangerous-substances

Period pills can end a pregnancy—but they don't require you to take a pregnancy test first

"Justice Alito and his conservative colleagues have concluded that abortion rights are not deeply rooted in American legal history, and therefore cannot be constitutionally protected under an interest in "liberty." We disagree with them. But if the Justices insist we must go back to the way things were in 1860, then at the very least, let's make sure we use all the options available to Americans at that time—including the option to bring down our periods when we do not want to be pregnant."

https://slate.com/technology/2022/07/period-pills-pregnancy-fertility-menstrual-regulation.html

Meet Abortion Bans’ New Best Friend—Your Phone – Mother Jones

… Latice Fisher, a Black woman, arrived at a Mississippi hospital after losing a pregnancy at home. Because she had admitted during an earlier gynecological exam that she was pregnant, but never returned for an ultrasound, suspicious medical officials handed her medical records to police, who launched an investigation. Since Fisher had voluntarily surrendered her phone, prosecutors were able to scrape her search history, which included searches for misoprostol, and used it as evidence that she had intentionally "killed" her fetus. She was charged with second-degree murder…

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2022/02/meet-abortion-bans-new-best-friend-your-phone/

Satanic Temple Floats Devilishly Clever Strategy To Dodge Texas Abortion Law | HuffPost

"We will not be cowed into silence by an unjust law," declared the temple, which links reproductive freedom to religious freedom...
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/satanic-temple-morning-after-abortion-texas-law_n_6132e856e4b05f53eda815e7