On an episode of The Dr. Oz Show airing today, Donald Trump directly contradicted the GOP’s draconian 2016 platform by expressing that women should be able to get birth control without a prescription, continuing what appears to be a somewhat frantic last-minute attempt to improve his poor standing with women.

In a ruling earlier yesterday, Indiana judge Elizabeth C. Hurley said that Purvi Patel should be released from prison immediately.

An anonymous Irish woman is making worldwide headlines after live-tweeting her long trip to the United Kingdom to access a legal abortion. The woman and a friend accompanying her tweeted from the account Two Women Travel; many of their tweets were directed at Irish prime minister Enda Kenny, who’s trying very, very…

Both the Democratic and Republican national conventions this year promise to be circuses, although the RNC will be particularly wild, what with gelatinous bile-mass Donald Trump prepared to engulf the Republican party. Now the anti-abortion crowd is joining the fun, with a group called Created Equal hiring a plane to…

Days after the historic Supreme Court ruling that struck down Texas’s unconstitutional abortion laws, federal judges halt the implementation of similarly obstructive laws in Florida.

Today the Supreme Court delivered a ruling of monumental significance to reproductive rights and women’s health. Texas, and every other state attempting to limit abortion access, will be required to revise their laws so that those seeking to terminate pregnancies can safely do so. However, the ruling does not…

In a new mini-documentary, Broadly caught up with The Satanic Temple, our favorite group of pro-choice Satanists, as they undertake a series of protests, lawsuits and political actions designed to protect reproductive freedom. Man, Satan looks better all the time.

In other news your reproductive organs and rights will not enjoy, South Carolina legislators have passed a bill banning abortion after 19 weeks, making it the 17th state to uphold the prohibitive measure.

Although abortion is legal in the rest of the United Kingdom, its ban in Northern Ireland remains in place. And as a result, a 21-year-old woman was almost sent to prison for self-inducing a miscarriage.

The one province in Canada where abortions were unavailable has agreed to provide legal, publicly-funded abortion procedures, after years of lobbying by a reproductive rights organization. Prince Edward Island residents haven’t had access to surgical abortions since 1982, and were forced to travel to Halifax or…

On Thursday, Indiana Governor Mike Pence signed a bill that places more restrictions on abortion in the state. The bill bans women from seeking abortions based on race, gender or disability of the fetus, as well as placing new restrictions on doctors.

One endearing thing about undead tangerine and presidential candidate Donald Trump is what a bad liar he is. Take his insistence that he’s now super anti-abortion, after years of being pro-choice: it just sounds like bullshit. Trump took to Facebook Tuesday night to insist again that he hates abortion and loves…

Like most of the pregnant population in the Western Hemisphere, I’ve spent the past weeks unusually engrossed by the spread of the Zika virus. In case you have not been joining me in Googling “Zika” while clutching your baby bump in terror, here’s the gist: the virus, spread by mosquitoes and multiplying in the…

A new poll has found that support for abortion rights has increased among both Democrats and Republicans in the last year. Fully 58 percent of Americans now think abortion should be legal “in most or all cases,” an Associated Press-GfK survey found, up from 51 percent at the beginning of the year.

Republican lawmakers in Ohio are planning on introducing legislation that would require women who have undergone abortions at clinics or been treated for a miscarriage to sign a form designating burial or cremation of the fetal remains.

Just one month ago, six Planned Parenthood clinics allowed women receiving abortions to opt to donate that fetal tissue for medical research; today, just two clinics continue to do so.

Well, I’ll be damned: some good news in the battle for reproductive rights!

A new study followed more than 600 women who had abortions over a three-year period to determine whether they regretted terminating their pregnancies. The authors found no evidence of the “post-abortion trauma syndrome” touted by anti-abortion activists, writing that the “overwhelming majority” of women—95…

In a sweeping and fairly disastrous opinion for reproductive health in Texas, a three-judge panel on the U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals has upheld nearly every part of HB 2, an extremely restrictive law that could make safe, legal abortion access virtually impossible in the state. All but eight abortion clinics…