REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS

The basics of an increasingly popular way of getting abortion pills.

Researchers looked at the air pollution levels while the donor eggs were developing and the 72 days when the sperm was developing and found a link between an increase in exposure to air pollution and lower embryo quality and egg survival in both cases.

Doctors are concerned that misinformation about birth control might make some women get off it at a time when there are fewer options available for unintended pregnancies in the US.

A new study published in JAMA Internal Medicine found that 30% of these anti-abortion ‘fake clinics’ promote “abortion pill reversal,” a treatment that’s not backed by science and does not meet clinical standards. 

From getting long-lasting birth control to removing fallopian tubes, some Iowans are taking drastic measures as Iowa begins a six-week abortion ban and President Donald Trump takes office next month.

Abortions are down 40%, but travel out of state has increased 159%, nearly four months into Iowa’s near-total abortion ban.

In an op-ed, Kate Kelly highlights how the 1873 Comstock Act, passed at the behest of Anthony Comstock —  a man so obsessed with abortion providers, he drove one to suicide with his relentless harassment — could be revived by Republicans to enact a nationwide abortion ban.

Iowa’s abortion ban has changed the way Iowans are getting care three months after it took effect.

With Iowa’s abortion ban in effect and the threat of a national abortion ban at the federal level,  volunteers are using their free time to talk to voters about reproductive rights and how to protect them.

The proposal comes days before Election Day, as Vice President Kamala Harris affixes her presidential campaign to a promise of expanding women’s health care access in the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to undo nationwide abortion rights two years ago.