USA – Red States Just Asked the Supreme Court to Kill Abortion Shield Laws

The long-expected constitutional showdown over states’ rights and abortion rights is here.

Nina Martin, Mother Jones
Oct 1, 2026

In what promises to be the most consequential showdown over reproductive rights since the end of Roe v. Wade, three states with near-total abortion bans asked the US Supreme Court on Wednesday to strike down blue-state laws that have enabled tens of thousands of abortions every year across state lines since 2022.

The action by Louisiana, Alabama, and Arkansas was a dramatic escalation in the long-running battle over so-called shield laws, which provide legal immunity to doctors, organizations, and advocates in liberal states who deliver abortion care, mostly in the form of pills, to people in states with draconian abortion laws.

Continued: https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/10/red-states-just-asked-the-supreme-court-to-kill-abortion-shield-laws/


Built to Withstand Trump-Era Attacks on Mifepristone: New Telehealth Provider Serves All 50 States for Sliding-Scale Fee

The Europe-based service offers FDA-approved abortion pills, 24/7 clinician support and care for as little as $0—even in states where abortion is banned.

Aug 11, 2026
by Carrie N. Baker

“We’re here to make it as easy, safe and available as possible for people to get care, and we want to support people all the way through.” —At Home Abortion

Telehealth provider At Home Abortion just opened Aug. 11, but the six doctors and nurses running the service have over 100 years combined experience providing abortion and other reproductive healthcare.

At Home Abortion (AHA) is the latest to join the growing field of telehealth abortion providers. AHA is unique in that the company serves patients in all 50 states, offers comprehensive support to all their patients and is based in Europe so is resistant to Trump administration attacks on telehealth abortion with mifepristone. In other words, AHA will be able to continue to provide gold-standard abortion pill service with mifepristone and misoprostol, no matter what the Trump administration, courts or Republican states do to try to suppress mifepristone access inside the United States.

Continued: https://msmagazine.com/2026/08/11/at-home-abortion-telehealth-abortion-pills-all-50-states/


USA – She’s Remaking the Abortion Landscape One Pill at a Time

Far from buckling under Dobbs, the access movement has created “a whole new way of doing healthcare.”

Nina Martin
July 31, 2026

For most of the three years it’s existed, the second-largest telehealth abortion provider in the country has operated out of an office not much bigger than a lot of bathrooms. “That is what half a million dollars of mifepristone looks like,” Dr. Angel Foster tells the Tufts University medical students crowded around the conference table, nodding toward the cubicle across the hall. The bins lining the plate-glass windows are filled with Priority Mail packages containing abortion pills, ready to be labeled and shipped. Shelves hold supplies of mifepristone and misoprostol, the two drugs in the gold-standard abortion-pill regimen, all waiting to be packed.

Foster is a leader in the movement that has revolutionized telemedicine abortion care in the post–Roe v. Wade era. The Massachusetts Medication Abortion Access Project, or The MAP, which she co-founded in 2023, is the culmination of a 30-year career on the cutting edge of global reproductive care. Figuring out how to get abortion pills to people who need them, while preparing for a future in which those pills may no longer be legal, is a core part of Foster’s—and The MAP’s—mission.

Continued: https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/07/shes-remaking-the-abortion-landscape-one-pill-at-a-time/


Abortion Rates Continue to Climb as Telehealth Reshapes Post-Dobbs America

Abortion bans have not reduced demand for abortion, according to new #WeCount data, while telehealth has transformed how many patients obtain care.

6/17/2026
by Carrie N. Baker

Four years after the Supreme Court handed states the power to ban abortion, a striking paradox has emerged: Abortion rates are rising.

Since Roe v. Wade was overturned in 2022, the number of abortions in the U.S. has increased over 20 percent, according to the Society of Family Planning’s latest #WeCount report, released June 10.

Continued: https://msmagazine.com/2026/06/17/abortion-number-rates-increase-dobbs-pills-telehealth-mifepristone-misoprostol/


USA – Abortion Access Is in Chaos. Blame the Supreme Court.

The court’s conservatives promised that repealing Roe would bring stability. It has done the opposite.

By Jill Filipovic
May 05, 2026

… Overturning Roe didn’t resolve a contentious national argument and bring about an era of considered debate followed by a democratic process to set abortion laws that reflect public opinion; it just made abortion rights far more fragile, including in the liberal states that seek to protect them. Instead of turning the issue back to the states, abortion opponents are now focused on ending abortion access nationwide. Instead of providing clarity, the courts have created chaos.

Continued: https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2026/05/supreme-court-abortion-pill-access.html


As the U.S. stares down nationwide ban on abortion pill telemedicine, can Americans get access through Canada’s new citizenship law?

Riley Cohen, Asheesh Moosapeta
May 4, 2026

As a legal battle threatens telemedicine access to abortion medication across the United States, millions of those at risk of losing access are U.S.-Canadian dual citizens under Canada’s new citizenship law.

Americans across the United States may soon find themselves in the situation where they can be issued and filled prescriptions under Canadian law, only to be denied access to their medication under U.S. regulations.

Continued: https://www.cicnews.com/2026/05/us-potential-ban-telemedicine-abortion-proof-of-citizenship-0574931.html


Ipas evidence in action 2025: Research insights on abortion access, quality, and equity

January 28, 2026

Evidence matters most when it helps people act. In 2025, Ipas and partners published research that turns lived realities into practical lessons for improving abortion access and care, especially for people who are too often pushed to the margins.

Across 17 countries and three languages, these studies offer crucial information and methodologies to help push for better standards, smarter investments, and fewer barriers between people and essential health care.

Here’s an overview of our 2025 research you can use in advocacy and action.

Continued: https://www.ipas.org/news/ipas-evidence-in-action-2025-research-insights-on-abortion-access-quality-and-equity/


America’s abortion wars: inside the clinic on the front line

Since the overturning of Roe v Wade in 2022, abortion is illegal in 13 US states. New Mexico has become the nearest place for many women to terminate a pregnancy — if they can get past the religious activists on a mission to change their minds

George Grylls
Friday January 16 2026

Haley Nathan, 19, writes down the details of women’s cars on a clipboard outside an abortion clinic in New Mexico, braced for the day ahead. New Mexico is the closest option for any Texan woman to receive an abortion since the overturning of Roe v Wade in June 2022.

She’s frequently yelled at, or shown the middle finger. “I try not to let it bother me because it’s gonna affect my performance on the sidewalk,” says Nathan, a young intern, fixated on the clinic’s door as she prepares herself for the hostility coming her way. “I like to say it’s not me who’s doing the work. It’s God in me. I step out, God steps in.”

Continued: https://archive.is/6FX9Y
(https://www.thetimes.com/us/news-today/article/abortion-roe-v-wade-h2j7j9lm9)


In Post-Roe America, Abortion Care Is Being Reborn From the Ground Up

A British doctor finds fear and legal chaos being transformed into a new, decentralized model of reproductive freedom

Sabrina Das
Jan 13, 2026

Along the broad, ceremonial expanse of Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington, D.C., its lanes framed by rows of evenly spaced trees, Amy Allina paused to remember how her career began. Years before she established herself as a consultant for reproductive rights nonprofits, she learned how to perform abortions with nothing more than a length of plastic tubing and a mason jar.

It was the early 1990s. She was part of a loose network of feminist health collectives — women who believed, with a conviction that feels almost radical now, that information belonged to everyone, especially when it concerned their bodies. A mentor taught her “menstrual extraction,” a low-tech method capable of removing the contents of the uterus in very early pregnancy. The procedure was performed in living rooms and kitchens, surrounded by friends. There were no machines, no metal instruments, no men in white coats.

Continued: https://newlinesmag.com/reportage/in-post-roe-america-abortion-care-is-being-reborn-from-the-ground-up/


2025 Was a Year of Chaos for Reproductive Rights Under the Trump Administration

Project 2025 initiated a war on reproductive rights that could escalate into even higher gear in 2026.

By Lauren Rankin , Truthout
December 27, 2025

With a decidedly anti-choice Trump administration taking office at its start, 2025 was poised to be yet another brutal year for abortion rights. Advocates feared the imminent resurgence of the Comstock Act, an 1873 law that made it a criminal offense to share contraceptives, abortifacients, and information about either across state lines or through the mail.

As of now, the last month of this very difficult political year, that is yet to happen.

Continued: https://truthout.org/articles/2025-was-a-year-of-chaos-for-reproductive-rights-under-the-trump-administration/