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PolitiFact | During the campaign stop Tuesday, he focused on Trump’s stance on abortion. But some of Biden’s assertions missed the mark.

Nearly two years after the Court overturned Roe v. Wade in June 2022, additional challenges are being brought that may limit access to abortion in the U.S. Mifepristone...

Archaic pieces of legislation are coming back to life as the fight over abortion access rages across the country ahead of the 2024 election.

Archaic pieces of legislation are coming back to life as the fight over abortion access rages across the country ahead of the 2024 election. When the Arizona Supreme Court ruled to ban nearly all abortions in the state, it did so by upholding an 1864 law — passed before Arizona was made a state —…

In a new brief, KFF examines how the Comstock Act, an 1873 anti-vice law banning the mailing of obscene matter and articles, could be used by an anti-abortion presidential administration to sharply restrict the availability of abortion nationwide.  The Biden Administration’s Department of Justice has said the Comstock Act should not be interpreted literally with<span class="readmore-ellipsis">…</span><a href="https://www.kff.org/womens-health-policy/press-...

Zombie laws, in the hands of antiabortion zealots and the ultraconservative Supreme Court, are coming for more than abortion rights.

Zombie laws, in the hands of antiabortion zealots and the ultraconservative Supreme Court, are coming for more than abortion rights.

"He'll say whatever he needs to say on any day of the week," Gov. Gavin Newsom told Jen Psaki.

The party seems unable to unite behind the series of bills.

Democrats are getting pressure from abortion rights groups to keep the Comstock Act in place.