Roe v. Wade

The nation’s highest court will not hear an appeal involving an Alabama fertility clinic and a frozen embryo it allegedly destroyed. The legal case was part of an Alabama Supreme Court ruling that frozen embryos are children

A study has found that the number of women charged with crimes related to their pregnancies jumped in the year after the U.S. Supreme Court ruling that cleared the way for abortion bans across the country. Most of the cases identified were in just two states: Alabama and Oklahoma.

Republicans have blocked for a second time this year legislation to establish a nationwide right to in vitro fertilization, arguing that the vote is an election-year stunt after Democrats forced a vote on the issue. The action was prompted, in part, by an Alabama Supreme Court ruling earlier this year that frozen embryos are “children.”

Families at the center of an Alabama Supreme Court ruling that frozen embryos are children are asking a judge to toss out a new state law that provides legal immunity to invitro fertilization providers.

A federal judge in Arkansas ruled that Alabama and sixteen other states have no standing to challenge federal rules entitling workers to time off and other accommodations for abortions.

A federal judge said abortion rights advocates can proceed with lawsuits against Alabama's attorney general over threats to prosecute people who help women travel to another state to terminate pregnancies.

The Alabama Supreme Court on Friday declined to reconsider a controversial ruling that said frozen embryos are considered children under a state law.

Democrats in both Alabama and Florida are looking to the possible political blowback from conservative actions like the Sunshine State’s new six week abortion that takes effect starting in May. There's also the ongoing headaches from an Alabama Supreme Court ruling that frozen embryos are children. Activists in both States think reproductive rights could be a rallying cry during the November election

A growing number of progressive politicians are choosing to tell their own abortion stories. The list includes newly elected Alabama State House member Marilyn Lands, who won a special election by focusing on reproductive rights.

Former President Donald Trump said he believes abortion limits should be left to the states, outlining his position in a video in which he declined to endorse a national ban after months of mixed messages and speculation. Here in Alabama, its abortion law makes performing the procedure a felony with up to ninety nine years in prison for the provider. There’s an exception when there is a serious health risk to the mother.