Sidelined last election, abortion returns to policy limelight - Health Care Abortion returns to policy discussions after being sidelined last election.

At a protest in the state Capitol on Wednesday, hundreds of Missourians urged lawmakers to respect their will on reproductive rights and paid sick leave — two measures that voters passed in 2024 but the legislature moved to reverse immediately after.

Texas Governor's Race: Abbott, Hinojosa take on abortion issue

Overall, Trump’s first year back in the White House was an unmitigated disaster for American women and trans people, a relentless series of attacks on the social safety net, the healthcare infrastructure, and 60 years of progress on civil rights. But on abortion, his approach has been more slow-walk than shock-and-awe.

It’s easy to forget that Texas’s bounty bill, S.B. 8, was once at the epicenter of the nation’s abortion politics.

Congressional Republicans weighing whether to extend enhanced Obamacare subsidies face a decision similar to the one that confronted anti-abortion Democrats 15 years ago, when they voted for the law despite the staunch opposition of anti-abortion activists.

The result of an ongoing trial in Kansas City could either widely expand abortion access in the metro or sharply curtail it indefinitely.