A New York doctor was indicted by a grand jury in West Baton Rouge, Louisiana, on Friday for prescribing an abortion pill that was taken by a teenager there.

President Joe Biden announced a major opinion Friday that the Equal Rights Amendment is ratified, enshrining its protections into the Constitution, a last-minute move that some believe could pave the way to bolstering reproductive rights.

At the Women’s Plaza of Honor of the U of A, 10 women are standing together for the first official photo of their media outlet team. They gathered around its two founders.  Caitlin Schmidt and Susan Barnett are seasoned journalists who saw an opportunity to build something new after their own disillusionment with the declining...

Arizona’s 15-week abortion ban is expected to fall once the new constitutional amendment goes into effect. But there are dozens of other laws on the books regulating abortion.

The owner of the Camelback Family Planning is willing to take risks for patients that other doctors won’t, while staying within the bounds of the state’s abortion ban

In 1992, voters in what was then a much more deeply red state delivered a resounding defeat to a measure that would have banned most abortions in Arizona.

New Census Bureau data shows women are making 82.7 cents per every dollar a man makes. The gap is even wider for most women of color.

Marginalised communities have long fought to preserve their own stories and provide an alternative to the Eurocentric, colonial archive

Voters in Arizona and Montana will be able to decide whether they want to protect the right to an abortion in their state constitutions.

More than 100 pregnant women in medical distress who sought help from emergency rooms have been turned away or negligently treated since 2022.

Alexis Smith tells audience that her abuser is in crowd and that ‘I, and my community, deserve healthy relationships’

The disgraceful lack of care she endured was a direct result of Texas’ deadly new abortion law.

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Coalition behind push says it turned in more than double the needed signatures to get measure on November ballot

The dispute pitted Idaho's near-total abortion ban against a federal law that requires Medicare-funded hospitals to offer abortions when needed to stabilize a patient's emergency medical condition.

Gun ownership can be prevented not only for convicted "abusers" but also those found to pose a "credible threat."

Women reported fewer promotions and fewer salary increases amid a tightening economy and slashed budgets.

TUCSON, Ariz. (KVOA) — Arizona is one step closer to repealing its near-total abortion ban.

The Arizona Senate voted on Wednesday to repeal the state's 1864 ban on abortion, which could otherwise have taken effect within weeks.

New York's highest court has overturned Harvey Weinstein’s 2020 rape conviction, ordering a new trial in the landmark #MeToo case.

The Supreme Court on Wednesday was divided over whether a federal law requiring hospitals that participate in Medicare to provide “necessary stabilizing treatment” in an emergency overrides an Ida

By the age of 13, Allison Byrd '24 realized that she could be an ambassador for change in her pursuit to combat human trafficking.

The living dead lurk in law books. So-called "zombie" statutes remain in legal codes around the country — archaic and unenforceable, but not quite deceased either. Given the right conditions, even long-dormant statutes can stir to life and wreak havoc, a fact made clear by the reanimation of Arizona's 1860s criminal abortion law.

The Arizona Supreme Court's resuscitation of a near-complete abortion ban penned decades before women had the right to vote kicked open the door to another legal anachronism: a Vietnam War-era constitutional challenge that may yet have some life in it.

TUCSON, Ariz. (KVOA) — All eyes remain on our state nearly one week after the Arizona Supreme Court's monumental ruling for a near-total abortion ban.

At the time, male physicians sought to dominate health care over midwives, and anti-abortion advocates felt threatened by immigrants, historians said.

A ban on nearly all abortions in Arizona doesn’t sit well with Republican former Gov. Doug Ducey. Yet he was the one who appointed the four conservative justices whose ruling cleared the way for it.

The case hinged on statutory interpretation, not the merits of the state's 1864 ban.

Arizona officials are scrambling to address a near total abortion ban revived by the state’s Supreme Court this week, before the Civil War-era law almost completely halts access to Arizona’s already limited abortion services.