JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — Reproductive rights activists in Missouri agree they want to get a ballot measure before voters in the fall to roll back one of the strictest abortion bans in the country and ...

Even in our politically polarized time, abortion stands out as an issue uniquely defined by extremes. This polarization suggests the status quo affirmed by Casey is itself a compromise position, since ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. I recently met Thompson at a convening of legal scholars and maternal health ...

The presence of myocardial viability at baseline was not a predictor of the long-term mortality reduction attained with CABG in patients with ischemic cardiomyopathy in the STICH trial, even when ...

REGULATING ABORTION involves a balance of competing interests. On one hand is a mother’s right to bodily autonomy. On the other is the life of the fetus. In most countries that permit abortion “on ...

Advances in medical technology have pushed the boundaries of fetal viability — a term for the point at which a fetus can survive outside the womb. When the Supreme Court handed down the Roe v. Wade ...

The U.S. Supreme Court today considered whether to uphold Mississippi's ban on abortions after 15 weeks of gestation, which would require overturning or revising longstanding precedents saying the ...