Abortion rightsNews and features on the legal and cultural fight over abortion in the United States.Study: More patients traveled to Mass. for abortions after Supreme Court Dobbs rulingMassachusetts has seen a small but significant increase in people traveling to the state for an abortion since the Supreme Court allowed states to limit access to or ban the...HealthSep 6, 2023How the Dobbs abortion decision is playing out in Massachusetts, one year laterMassachusetts has not experienced much of the political turmoil triggered by the U.S. Supreme Court's Dobbs decision, which ended the constitutional right to an abortion. But the state is feeling...ResumeHealth04:33Jun 23, 2023Abortion-rights opponents don’t understand that death — like life — is sacredAll pregnancy is rife with the specter of death, although we prefer not to think about it, writes Anita Hannig. We have sacrificed an entire generation on the altar of...CognoscentiJun 23, 2023The next battle over abortion is very localPeople in Massachusetts should care about what's happening in Hobbs, New Mexico. Lieutenant Governor-elect Kim Driscoll and Rebecca Hart Holder explain how the fight for abortion rights is hyper local.CognoscentiJan 3, 2023As N.H. Republicans ready for primary, Democrats work to push abortion rights to center of campaignThis push comes in the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court’s Dobbs v. Jackson ruling, which struck down a constitutional right to abortion. It also coincides with historic political tension...Local CoverageSep 2, 2022AdvertisementAs college students return to Massachusetts campuses, they'll find new abortion care optionsA new state law ensures public college and university students in Massachusetts have access to medication abortion through the school's own health services, like on campus at UMass Amherst.HealthSep 1, 2022How the fall of Roe could change abortion care in Mass.The abortion bans have the potential to subject Massachusetts physicians who care for patients from states where abortion is illegal to criminal prosecution, civil suits and public scrutiny, write four...CognoscentiJul 26, 2022Reps. Clark, Pressley arrested outside Supreme Court at protest over abortion rightsMassachusetts U.S. Reps. Katherine Clark, Ayanna Pressley and over a dozen other House Democrats were arrested Tuesday for blocking traffic at a protest outside the Supreme Court criticizing the ruling...Local CoverageJul 19, 2022Mass. insurers will cover abortion travel costs for membersTufts, Harvard Pilgrim, and Blue Cross are promising to cover travel and lodging costs for members who live in states where abortion is restricted.HealthJul 18, 2022Advocates urge crowd funding, not couch surfing, to help people traveling for an abortionInformal offers to host people seeking abortions have sprung up on social media since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, but so have stern warnings not to accept —...ResumeHealth04:52Jul 18, 2022Choosing abortion wasn't about safety or survivalFor me, abortion was about choosing a path that I wanted over a path that I didn’t, writes Sarah Nager.CognoscentiJul 18, 2022'My girls are part of that hope': Why I talk to my daughters about hard thingsHard conversations, like advocacy, must be ongoing, writes Anri Wheeler. CognoscentiJul 14, 2022When abortion is 'an unimaginable act of surrender'Banning abortion will create tremendous suffering for some who face pregnancy complications — all traumatic in themselves, but even more so without the guarantee of timely deliverance, writes Anita Hannig.CognoscentiJul 7, 2022Gov. Mills: Maine won't help prosecute abortion seekers, providersMills signed an executive order prohibiting state agencies from cooperating in another state's investigation into people, groups or health care providers over abortions or other reproductive health care that was...HealthJul 6, 2022I'm a high-risk OB-GYN: Abortion helps me save livesThis is a skill I never enjoy using. But as a high-risk obstetrician, it is absolutely the thing I do that has saved the most lives, writes Dr. Erika Werner.CognoscentiJul 1, 2022We need more men to fight for abortion rightsPeople with uteruses shouldn’t be the only ones charged with baring their souls and making themselves vulnerable, writes Laura Tamman. More men need to share their abortion stories.CognoscentiJun 30, 2022House Democrats roll out reproductive rights bill in Mass.Representatives on Beacon Hill could vote as soon as Wednesday on a reproductive care access measure responding to last week's seismic U.S. Supreme Court decision ending a constitutional right to...Local CoverageJun 28, 2022Like Roe, I was born in 1973 — and I'm here to keep fightingWe will not be the ones most impacted by the end of Roe, but we feel its heavy responsibility and the painful question: if we failed to hold onto Roe,...CognoscentiJun 27, 2022Mass. anti-abortion groups celebrate Roe's overturn, while abortion rights advocates plan protestsMassachusetts advocacy groups on both sides of the abortion debate reacted swiftly to the Supreme Court's decision to overturn Roe v. Wade.HealthJun 24, 2022Scenes across the country after Supreme Court overturns constitutional right to abortionActivists against and supporting abortion rights both demonstrated outside the Supreme Court on Friday after the justices announced their expected decision to overturn the landmark Roe v. Wade case that...Local CoverageJun 24, 2022Next Page
Study: More patients traveled to Mass. for abortions after Supreme Court Dobbs rulingMassachusetts has seen a small but significant increase in people traveling to the state for an abortion since the Supreme Court allowed states to limit access to or ban the...HealthSep 6, 2023
How the Dobbs abortion decision is playing out in Massachusetts, one year laterMassachusetts has not experienced much of the political turmoil triggered by the U.S. Supreme Court's Dobbs decision, which ended the constitutional right to an abortion. But the state is feeling...ResumeHealth04:33Jun 23, 2023
Abortion-rights opponents don’t understand that death — like life — is sacredAll pregnancy is rife with the specter of death, although we prefer not to think about it, writes Anita Hannig. We have sacrificed an entire generation on the altar of...CognoscentiJun 23, 2023
The next battle over abortion is very localPeople in Massachusetts should care about what's happening in Hobbs, New Mexico. Lieutenant Governor-elect Kim Driscoll and Rebecca Hart Holder explain how the fight for abortion rights is hyper local.CognoscentiJan 3, 2023
As N.H. Republicans ready for primary, Democrats work to push abortion rights to center of campaignThis push comes in the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court’s Dobbs v. Jackson ruling, which struck down a constitutional right to abortion. It also coincides with historic political tension...Local CoverageSep 2, 2022
As college students return to Massachusetts campuses, they'll find new abortion care optionsA new state law ensures public college and university students in Massachusetts have access to medication abortion through the school's own health services, like on campus at UMass Amherst.HealthSep 1, 2022
How the fall of Roe could change abortion care in Mass.The abortion bans have the potential to subject Massachusetts physicians who care for patients from states where abortion is illegal to criminal prosecution, civil suits and public scrutiny, write four...CognoscentiJul 26, 2022
Reps. Clark, Pressley arrested outside Supreme Court at protest over abortion rightsMassachusetts U.S. Reps. Katherine Clark, Ayanna Pressley and over a dozen other House Democrats were arrested Tuesday for blocking traffic at a protest outside the Supreme Court criticizing the ruling...Local CoverageJul 19, 2022
Mass. insurers will cover abortion travel costs for membersTufts, Harvard Pilgrim, and Blue Cross are promising to cover travel and lodging costs for members who live in states where abortion is restricted.HealthJul 18, 2022
Advocates urge crowd funding, not couch surfing, to help people traveling for an abortionInformal offers to host people seeking abortions have sprung up on social media since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, but so have stern warnings not to accept —...ResumeHealth04:52Jul 18, 2022
Choosing abortion wasn't about safety or survivalFor me, abortion was about choosing a path that I wanted over a path that I didn’t, writes Sarah Nager.CognoscentiJul 18, 2022
'My girls are part of that hope': Why I talk to my daughters about hard thingsHard conversations, like advocacy, must be ongoing, writes Anri Wheeler. CognoscentiJul 14, 2022
When abortion is 'an unimaginable act of surrender'Banning abortion will create tremendous suffering for some who face pregnancy complications — all traumatic in themselves, but even more so without the guarantee of timely deliverance, writes Anita Hannig.CognoscentiJul 7, 2022
Gov. Mills: Maine won't help prosecute abortion seekers, providersMills signed an executive order prohibiting state agencies from cooperating in another state's investigation into people, groups or health care providers over abortions or other reproductive health care that was...HealthJul 6, 2022
I'm a high-risk OB-GYN: Abortion helps me save livesThis is a skill I never enjoy using. But as a high-risk obstetrician, it is absolutely the thing I do that has saved the most lives, writes Dr. Erika Werner.CognoscentiJul 1, 2022
We need more men to fight for abortion rightsPeople with uteruses shouldn’t be the only ones charged with baring their souls and making themselves vulnerable, writes Laura Tamman. More men need to share their abortion stories.CognoscentiJun 30, 2022
House Democrats roll out reproductive rights bill in Mass.Representatives on Beacon Hill could vote as soon as Wednesday on a reproductive care access measure responding to last week's seismic U.S. Supreme Court decision ending a constitutional right to...Local CoverageJun 28, 2022
Like Roe, I was born in 1973 — and I'm here to keep fightingWe will not be the ones most impacted by the end of Roe, but we feel its heavy responsibility and the painful question: if we failed to hold onto Roe,...CognoscentiJun 27, 2022
Mass. anti-abortion groups celebrate Roe's overturn, while abortion rights advocates plan protestsMassachusetts advocacy groups on both sides of the abortion debate reacted swiftly to the Supreme Court's decision to overturn Roe v. Wade.HealthJun 24, 2022
Scenes across the country after Supreme Court overturns constitutional right to abortionActivists against and supporting abortion rights both demonstrated outside the Supreme Court on Friday after the justices announced their expected decision to overturn the landmark Roe v. Wade case that...Local CoverageJun 24, 2022