Abortion News

Derek Tran, a consumer rights lawyer and Army veteran, defeated Representative Michelle Steel, a Republican two-term incumbent, flipping a seat in Orange County, Calif.

By Amy Qin

The ruling found that two state laws — one barring use of abortion pills, and one banning all forms of abortion — violated the state Constitution’s “fundamental right to make health care decisions.”

By Pam Belluck

Dr. Ellen Wiebe, who has performed hundreds of medical aid in dying (or MAID) procedures, discusses what constitutes a good death.

By David Marchese

Former Vice President Mike Pence described Mr. Kennedy, who does not support a federal abortion ban, as a choice unlike any in the modern era of the G.O.P.

By Jonathan Swan

We explain why the issue of abortion didn’t necessarily help Democrats win this election.

By David Leonhardt

Voters in red and blue states supported abortion rights, but the movement’s winning streak came to an end.

By Michael Barbaro, Kate Zernike, Asthaa Chaturvedi, Carlos Prieto, M.J. Davis Lin, Elisheba Ittoop, Pat McCusker, Dan Powell and Chris Wood

Kamala Harris would have been the first female president in the nation’s nearly 250-year history. But many women chose Donald Trump, despite his history of sexism and his support for the end of Roe v. Wade.

By Dionne Searcey

The abortion rights movement won in many states — even some that voted for Donald Trump. Where does it go from here?

By Emily Bazelon

Interest in South Korea’s 4B feminist movement, which rejects dating, marriage, sex and childbirth, has risen in the United States.

Gina Cherelus

In states like Arizona and Nevada, some voters split their tickets, supporting abortion rights measures while also backing Donald Trump.

By Ruth Igielnik

Proposition 1, meant to expand equal rights and codify the protections of Roe v. Wade in the State Constitution, passed easily despite a Republican campaign against trans rights.

By Ginia Bellafante

After Kamala Harris became the second woman to lose a presidential election to Donald J. Trump, some women wondered if the glass ceiling would ever break.

By Katie Rogers

Democrats had attacked Donald J. Trump’s ties to the conservative policy blueprint for reshaping the federal government. Several of its authors served in his administration.

By Neil Vigdor and Simon J. Levien

The measure establishes an explicit right to abortion in the State Constitution.

By Kate Zernike

Plus, Republicans win control of the Senate.

By Tracy Mumford, Adam Nagourney, Robert Jimison, Ian Stewart and Jessica Metzger

With voters declining to enshrine a right to abortion in the State Constitution, South Dakota will continue to have one of the strictest abortion bans in the country.

By Kate Zernike

Representative Nick LaLota, a Long Island Republican, faced a spirited challenge from John Avlon, a former CNN commentator.

By Nicholas Fandos

Voters in 41 states are considering ballot measures that also include legalizing marijuana and public funding for private schools.

By Michael Wines

The plea, delivered by figures including Elon Musk, reflects a growing concern from Donald J. Trump’s team that heavy turnout among women could spell trouble on Election Day.

By Michael Gold

In a podcast appearance, Tucker Carlson dismissed scientific research that links global warming to more potent and frequent hurricanes, saying instead that “it’s probably abortion, actually.”

By Chris Cameron

Referendum 434 would enshrine the state’s current ban after 12 weeks. Referendum 439 would create a right to abortion “until fetal viability.”

By Dionne Searcey

The Republican presidential nominee has pledged enhanced access to the White House. “It will be directly into the Oval Office — and me.”

By Elizabeth Dias

Thousands of women rallied in the capital and across the country for a Kamala Harris presidency — and to proclaim their resistance to Republican aims to restrict women’s reproductive rights.

By Aishvarya Kavi

The Canadian government proposed legislation this week to crack down on anti-abortion organizations that provide “dishonest counseling” to pregnant women.

By Vjosa Isai

Appearing on Joe Rogan’s podcast, Senator JD Vance also said that liberal women celebrate their abortions and that Donald Trump would win the “normal gay guy vote.”

By Chris Cameron, Simon J. Levien and Neil Vigdor

The reproductive rights activist Cecile Richards started a media project that merges activism and journalism on Instagram and TikTok, just days ahead of the presidential election.

By Jessica Testa

We surveyed candidates in 28 competitive House races to compare their policy positions on the issue. See what they said.

By Allison McCann and Vivian Li

Both sides are trying to make their opponents sound extreme. Here is what studies and data show about when and why abortions happen later in pregnancy.

By Kate Zernike

Distrust of Kelly Ayotte, the Republican candidate, on abortion and strong support for Kamala Harris in the state may be helping keep the race close despite Ms. Ayotte’s advantages.

By Jenna Russell

Sue Altman, a Democrat, has focused on reproductive rights as she seeks to unseat a Republican incumbent, Representative Thomas Kean Jr., in a New Jersey swing district.

By Tracey Tully

For a politician who has been criticized for shifting positions on some issues, this is an area where she has shown unwavering conviction.

By Heather Knight and Pam Belluck

An ad from the Harris campaign highlights the death of Amber Nicole Thurman, a Georgia woman whose delay in medical care was reportedly tied to the state’s post-Roe abortion restrictions.

By Erica L. Green

While still cautious, advisers and allies believe that casting Donald Trump as a fascist is working, and that their expansive ground game and appeals on abortion rights may carry the day.

By Reid J. Epstein, Lisa Lerer and Maggie Haberman

Donald Trump has softened his rhetoric, contradicted himself and nearly dropped “pro-life” from his vocabulary. Yet there is no evidence that his views on abortion have changed.

By Margot Sanger-Katz, Claire Cain Miller and Eve Washington

Michelle Obama, the former first lady, made the case during a rally for Vice President Kamala Harris that a vote for former President Donald J. Trump would be a vote against women’s reproductive rights and health.

By The Associated Press

Beyoncé and Kelly Rowland expressed support for Vice President Kamala Harris at a campaign event focused on abortion rights in Houston on Friday night.

By The New York Times

Opponents of the so-called Equal Rights Amendment have cast it as a broad attempt by Democrats to grant rights to transgender athletes and migrants.

By Grace Ashford

Activists on both sides say Trump could effectively ban abortion nationwide and establish fetal personhood, the longtime goal of the anti-abortion movement.

By Kate Zernike

A Republican super PAC is running ads invoking the name of Ruth Bader Ginsburg to help Donald Trump win voters who favor abortion rights. Her family denounced the effort as “nothing short of appalling.”

By Shane Goldmacher, Theodore Schleifer, Maggie Haberman and Jodi Kantor

Gov. Ron DeSantis, who signed a strict abortion ban, has become the face of a campaign against the referendum, which would allow abortions “before viability.”

By Patricia Mazzei

Appearing alongside a pop superstar and talking about abortion rights in a state with a strict ban, the vice president is hoping to deliver viral moments that will resound in faraway battlegrounds.

By Reid J. Epstein and J. David Goodman

The first, Proposition 1, is designed to enshrine abortion rights in the state Constitution. The rest would make changes to New York City’s governing charter.

By Alyce McFadden and Grace Ashford

They hope the issue helps their candidates. But some voters may support Republican candidates as well as abortion-rights ballot measures.

By Elizabeth Dias and Lisa Lerer

The pop superstar, whose song “Freedom” is already used by the Democratic nominee at her rallies, will appear with Ms. Harris at a Friday event focused on abortion rights.

By Nicholas Nehamas, Sandra E. Garcia, Katie Rogers and Reid J. Epstein

Senator Sherrod Brown has spent his decades in Congress establishing a track record as a populist champion on economic issues. But in the closing days of his re-election race, abortion has become a key emphasis.

By Annie Karni

The issue is rarely directly addressed by either Vice President Kamala Harris or Donald Trump. But the 2024 contest is, in ways overt and subtle, a referendum on the role of women in American life.

By Lisa Lerer and Katie Glueck

A new analysis shows how many women in states with bans are seeking procedures or pills from out-of-state providers.

By Claire Cain Miller, Margot Sanger-Katz and Josh Katz

The vice president will head to Houston on Friday, hoping to use the issue to peel moderate voters away from Donald J. Trump, who is almost certain to win the state.

By Nicholas Nehamas

Princess Gloria von Thurn und Taxis bonded with Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. over Catholicism and ending abortion. She introduced him to her sumptuous world when he visited her Bavarian palace.

By Abbie VanSickle, Philip Kaleta and Ingmar Nolting

Journalists and scholars explore the issue at every level, from the movement that took down Roe to the human stories of women who had abortions, and those who were denied.

By Mattie Kahn

In a nearly hourlong speech before a crowd that included evangelical leaders, he claimed that only he could protect Christian voters. He did not mention abortion once.

By Michael Gold

The Supreme Court ruled in June that the original plaintiffs, anti-abortion doctors and groups, did not have standing to sue. Now three states are trying to continue the legal fight.

By Pam Belluck

In the first presidential election since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald J. Trump bring sharply different records on abortion. Maggie Astor, a political reporter for The New York Times, describes where the candidates stand on the issue.

By Maggie Astor, David Seekamp, Claire Hogan and David Jouppi

Vice President Kamala Harris, campaigning in the state with the most restrictive abortion law of any battleground, criticized former President Donald J. Trump’s record on abortion.

By Alan Blinder

Bernie Moreno, his Republican rival, said women older than 50 are “crazy” for caring about abortion rights. A series of Ohio women who fit that description have much to say in response.

By Jazmine Ulloa

The organization behind a campaign for an abortion-rights ballot measure sued the Florida governor’s administration over its threats of criminal prosecution against TV stations.

By Patricia Mazzei

The group behind an ad in favor of enshrining abortion rights in Florida’s Constitution says the state is violating the First Amendment by threatening TV stations that ran the ad.

By Patricia Mazzei

The ad features a woman from Kentucky telling a harrowing story of being sexually assaulted and impregnated by her stepfather at the age of 12.

By Nicholas Nehamas

In Michigan, Ohio, Arizona and elsewhere, progressive court candidates are hoping that the abortion issue that helped conservatives remake the federal judiciary will work for them this time.

By Michael Wines

The suit had accused the three women of wrongful death. It was part of a heated battle over the use of such pills in states with abortion bans.

By Rachel Nostrant

A conversation among “mom friends” in suburban Phoenix shows the depths of Donald J. Trump’s trouble with a key slice of female voters.

By Jennifer Medina

Abortion is emerging as a major issue in this election, inspiring more women to show up to the polls and vote for Kamala Harris, while at the same time driving a wedge between some conservative women and Donald Trump. That dynamic is especially visible in Arizona, where abortion bans are being challenged on the ballot.

By Alexandra Eaton, Stephanie Figgins and Amy Marino

Republicans are trying to frame a statewide measure to protect reproductive rights as an attack on family values.

By James Barron

Earlier surveys have shown higher support, but the state’s Republican governor is working hard to defeat the initiative.

By Kate Zernike

The statewide ballot measure, known as the Equal Rights Amendment, has become a target for Republican opponents who have cast it as an attack on family values.

By Benjamin Oreskes

The government is again trying to insert itself into women’s childbearing decisions, knocking on doors and making calls with questions some find downright invasive.

By Vivian Wang

The administration said a state abortion law conflicted with a federal law requiring emergency care. The court similarly sidestepped a case from Idaho in June.

By Adam Liptak

The ban will resume while the court considers an appeal to a decision that had briefly allowed greater access to abortions in the state.

By Christina Morales

“All of us understand that this is not the 1950s anymore,” Vice President Kamala Harris told the host of the podcast “Call Her Daddy,” which is popular with millennial and Gen Z women.

By Katie Rogers

Harris could be the first female president. But it’s Trump and Vance who are playing the gender card.

By Emily Bazelon

The Harris campaign is trying to transform women in battleground states into an organizing force who can drive their friends and family to the polls.

By Lisa Lerer

Shining a little more light on her mysterious life, her memoir details her support for abortion rights, her doubts about the 2020 election and her explanation for that “I really don’t care” jacket.

By Katie Rogers

As Donald Trump tries to muddy his anti-abortion position, his wife released a video calling “individual freedom” an “essential right that all women possess,” asking, “What does ‘my body, my choice’ really mean?”

By Katie Rogers, Maggie Haberman and Lisa Lerer

By recounting stories of women who have suffered dire health consequences since Roe’s overturning, Gov. Tim Walz of Minnesota embraced a Democratic strategy as he argued for abortion rights.

By Jess Bidgood

The ruling is unlikely to be the final word on abortion access in the state, with the expectation that the case will ultimately be decided by the Georgia Supreme Court.

By David W. Chen

The state said that despite a doctor’s recommendation and state law, a Catholic hospital declined to provide an abortion because fetal heart tones were present.

By Pam Belluck

Democrats in a pair of competitive House districts are spotlighting the anti-abortion stances of Republican incumbents after the state enacted one of the most restrictive bans in the country.

By Robert Jimison

We explain where Kamala Harris and Donald Trump stand on the issue.

By Lisa Lerer

How to stay cordial when your adult colleagues gossip like teenagers.

By Anna Holmes

The race between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump has tightened in two of the Northern battlegrounds, New York Times/Siena College polls found.

By Reid J. Epstein, Ruth Igielnik and Camille Baker

Ads featuring candidates’ families have long been a campaign staple. But they have taken on new urgency, especially for vulnerable Republicans, in a year when reproductive rights are a pivotal issue.

By Annie Karni and Catie Edmondson

In a campaign they would like to center on the economy and the border, Republican candidates keep drifting back to abortion rights, an issue that favors Democrats.

By Jonathan Weisman

Mr. Moreno, a Republican running for Senate in Ohio, suggested that older women shouldn’t care about abortion because they were too old to have children, comments Nikki Haley pointedly criticized.

By Chris Cameron

“Shame on her,” Joe Manchin, the independent senator from West Virginia, said after Kamala Harris reiterated her support for ending the Senate practice. “She knows the filibuster is the Holy Grail of democracy.”

By Nicholas Nehamas

Unregulated homes are proliferating amid abortion restrictions and a housing crunch. Some limit residents’ movements, contacts and day-to-day decisions.

By Laura C. Morel

“You will be protected, and I will be your protector,” said former President Donald J. Trump. Polls have shown he is struggling to cultivate support among women, for whom abortion rights remain a top issue.

By Neil Vigdor and Simon J. Levien

A ballot measure codifying “the fundamental right to an abortion” is supported by 58 percent of the state’s likely voters, according to a New York Times/Siena College poll.

By Ruth Igielnik

The presidential race has exposed a fault line in American political culture over the deeply personal decision to have children.

By Katie Rogers

Democrats in the battleground state are counting on a sea change in the mood of young voters that could bolster their candidates in critical races that will determine who controls Congress.

By Catie Edmondson

The issue of gender dominated the campaign over a week that included a scandal in North Carolina and reporting on the fatal fallout of abortion bans.

By Katie Glueck

Visiting Wisconsin after giving a speech in Georgia, the vice president signaled she would focus on the life-or-death risks of abortion bans in the final weeks of the race.

By Reid J. Epstein and Nicholas Nehamas

“Donald Trump is the architect of this crisis,” Kamala Harris said in Georgia, where reporting this week found that the deaths of two women were a result of delayed treatment for medication abortions.

By Maya King and Katie Glueck

“Safe access” zones outside clinics in England and Wales will make it illegal to harass anyone seeking medical services or working there, the British government said.

By Megan Specia

The Democratic senator has long pressed to safeguard the fertility treatment she used to conceive her children, which has now been thrust into the political conversation.

By Maya C. Miller

Representative Gabe Vasquez, a Democrat in a border district, is under attack by his Republican opponent on immigration policy. Can a pro-abortion access message help him prevail?

By Maya C. Miller

He said American Catholic voters had to choose the “lesser of two evils” because of Donald Trump’s cruelty toward immigrants, and Kamala Harris’s support of abortion rights.

By Emma Bubola and Elisabetta Povoledo

Traditionally Republican members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints balked at Donald Trump in 2020, helping Joe Biden win a key swing state. Will they do so with Kamala Harris?

By Kellen Browning

Ten states could expand abortion rights via ballot measures. Nebraska will also vote on proposed restrictions.

By Allison McCann and Amy Schoenfeld Walker

As opposition to their agenda grows, especially on abortion, many conservatives are grappling with how to handle this new uncertain political world.

By Elizabeth Dias and Ruth Graham

A judge ruled that the State Constitution protected a woman’s right to abortion until the fetus was viable. The state’s attorney general said he would appeal.

By Kate Zernike