Abortion

The battles over abortion in the U.S. are increasingly focusing on the pills that are now the most common way pregnancies are ended

The Supreme Court said Wednesday it will consider South Carolina’s move to cut off Medicaid funding to Planned Parenthood, the latest abortion-related case since overturning it as a nationwide right

A conservative Catholic legal group is suing Illinois over a landmark state law enshrining a “fundamental right” to abortion care and requiring insurance companies to cover abortion and other reproductive health care

The candidates for Illinois’ 6th Congressional District seat disagree on whether there should be a legal right to an abortion — but they both oppose a federal ban.

Vice President Kamala Harris opened a media blitz by the Democratic ticket on Sunday with a conversation on the popular “Call Her Daddy” podcast

For the first time since she ascended to the top of the Democratic ticket, Vice President Kamala Harris is set to give a speech focused squarely on abortion rights

Moving abortion rights in particular out of the silo of “social issues” is what Anne Caprara – Governor JB Pritzker’s chief of staff and a longtime Democratic strategist – sees as a path forward for the party

Illinois delegates to the Democratic National Convention focused their attention Tuesday on reproductive rights, which some leaders say could eclipse the economy as a defining issue of the 2024 election campaign

Democrats gathered in Springfield Wednesday for their annual rally at the Illinois State Fair amid a surge of enthusiasm and a renewed sense of optimism about their chances of retaining the White House in November.

Gov. JB Pritzker signed multiple bills expanding reproductive rights in Illinois on Wednesday, including codifying a federal law that allows medical professionals to perform an abortion in response to a clinical emergency.

President Joe Biden might not often use the word “abortion” when he talks about the overturning of Roe v. Wade, but Vice President Kamala Harris sure does

A new poll finds that a solid majority of Americans oppose a federal abortion ban and that a rising number appear to support access to abortions for any reason

The Iowa Supreme Court said Friday the state’s strict abortion law is legal, telling a lower court to dissolve a temporary block on the law and allowing Iowa to ban most abortions after about six weeks of pregnancy — before many women know they are pregnant

Pritzker, a longtime proponent of abortion rights, is expected to sign a bill sometime soon that would enshrine protections similar to the federal EMTALA law in Illinois statute. 

Two years after U.S. Supreme Court justices overturned federal abortion protections in Roe v. Wade, some women voters and organizers said they fear what reproductive measures could be targeted next by conservative lawmakers.

Ahead of the November election and as two years approaches since the U.S. Supreme Court overturned federal abortion protections in Roe v. Wade, organizers rallied in downtown DeKalb Saturday for reproductive rights. Some said they hope to mobilize voters to support pro-abortion candidates down the ballot.

U.S. Rep. Lauren Underwood, D-Naperville, will speak at an abortion rights rally Saturday in DeKalb, planned to help mobilize voters to support candidates in November who back reproductive rights, organizers said.

It’s been nearly two years since Roe v. Wade was overturned by the U.S. Supreme Court – and a group of DeKalb-area activists plan to mark the anniversary with a rally aimed at mobilizing abortion-rights voters ahead of the November election.

The Supreme Court has preserved access to a medication used in nearly two-thirds of all abortions in the U.S. last year

Authorities in Illinois would not be allowed to aid another state’s investigation of people coming to Illinois to seek abortions or other reproductive health care under a bill that cleared the General Assembly Thursday

Republican state lawmakers across the U.S. have been knocking down efforts by Democrats to ensure access to various forms of birth control

Democratic incumbents and challengers running for the Senate this year say they want to restore a national right to abortion, and many, like Senator Baldwin, openly say they would support suspending the filibuster to do so.

Former President Donald Trump says he believes abortion should be left to the states in a video released Monday outlining his position after months of mixed messages and speculation.

The Supreme Court seems likely to preserve access to a medication that was used in nearly two-thirds of all abortions in the U.S. last year, in the court’s first abortion case since conservative justices overturned Roe v. Wade two years ago

The U.S. Supreme Court will take up a case Tuesday that could impact how women get access to mifepristone, one of the two pills used in the most common type of abortion in the nation.

More than a quarter of female Black voters describe abortion as their top issue in this year’s presidential election

A 73-year-old Prophetstown man who tried to burn down a future reproductive health clinic in Danville where abortions will be performed was sentenced Monday in federal court for attempted arson, and ordered to pay restitution.

Sentencing remains set for 3 p.m. Monday for a 73-year-old Prophetstown man who tried to burn down a future reproductive health clinic in Danville where he said abortions will be performed.

The three Republicans hoping to represent Illinois’ 11th District in Congress debated immigration, reproductive rights and other issues facing the nation Tuesday night in an online forum.

The number of women traveling to Illinois for abortion care rose by nearly 50% in 2022, the same year the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, new data shows.

A little over six months after pushing Democrats in the General Assembly to pass a law targeted at limited services pregnancy centers, Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul has agreed in a legal filing to stop the state’s enforcement of it.

The Supreme Court agreed on Wednesday to take up a dispute over mifepristone, a medication used in the most common method of abortion in the United States, its first abortion case since it overturned Roe v. Wade last year.

A defendant who pleads nolo contendere, or no contest, accepts a conviction without admitting guilt.

Gov. JB Pritzker is self-funding the launch of a new political advocacy group aimed at fighting for abortion rights across the U.S. – an extension of sizable donations he’s been making in Democratic politics for several years

A McHenry crisis pregnancy center is among those who sued over a law that requires them to – if requested by the patient – refer, transfer to or give patients written information about providers who perform abortions.

Three weeks after a federal judge denied his request to plead no contest, an elderly Prophetstown anti-abortion activist pleaded guilty to trying to burn down a clinic where abortions will be performed.

The federal judge in the case of an elderly Prophetstown anti-abortion activist charged with trying to burn down a future clinic where abortions will be performed will not allow him to plead no contest.

A man who set a fire at a Planned Parenthood clinic in Illinois was sentenced Tuesday to 10 years in federal prison. Tyler Massengill had admitted using a homemade explosive to set a fire at the Peoria clinic in January.

A Prophetstown anti-abortion activist indicted in federal court for trying to burn down a clinic in Danville where abortions will be performed because of his “religious beliefs” wants to plead no contest, court records show.

A new law allowing Illinoisans to sue so-called crisis pregnancy centers under the state’s Consumer Fraud and Deceptive Business Practices Act is on hold after a federal judge late Thursday granted a preliminary injunction against it.

Gov. JB Pritzker on Monday announced several new programs to help address the influx of out-of-state abortion seekers Illinois has seen in the 13 months since the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade.

So-called crisis pregnancy centers can now face lawsuits if they engage in “deceptive acts” aimed at deterring women from seeking abortions under a new law signed by Gov. JB Pritzker on Thursday.

The Illinois Department of Public Health has announced it is revising how it collects and reports data on abortions in Illinois in order to protect the privacy and safety of those who receive abortions and abortion providers

House Republicans are pushing new restrictions on abortion access and trying to build on the work of activists whose strategy successfully elevated the abortion fight to the Supreme Court

A year after the U.S. Supreme Court rescinded a five-decade-old right to abortion, 25 million women of childbearing age now live in states where the law makes abortions harder to get

A 73-year-old Prophetstown man who claims to be a member of an anti-abortion "rescue group" is charged in federal court after investigators say he tried to burn down a future Danville reproductive health clinic.

Upon the measure becoming law, crisis pregnancy centers could be sued under the Illinois Consumer Fraud and Deceptive Business Practices Act if they engage in “unfair methods of competition” or “deceptive acts or practices.”

The Supreme Court has preserved women’s access to a drug used in the most common method of abortion, rejecting lower-court restrictions while a lawsuit continues

The Supreme Court is facing a self-imposed Friday night deadline to decide whether women’s access to a widely used abortion pill will stay unchanged until a legal challenge to its Food and Drug Administration approval is resolved

A federal appeals court has preserved access to the abortion pill mifepristone for now but reduced the period of pregnancy when the drug can be used and said it could not be dispensed by mail