Shuttering of Clinics That Teach Abortion Care Fuels Medical Workforce Crisis

Reproductive health clinics have been closing at alarming rates since the Supreme Court ended federal abortion protections in 2022. Facing mounting social and economic pressures, at least 100 clinics closed between the fall of Roe v. Wade and June 2025, the latest data available. Every time a clinic closes, patients lose access to care, but that’s not all: Whole communities lose their…
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Anti-Abortion Groups Try a New Intimidation Tactic: Make Abortion Records Public

An anti-choice group called “Voices for Life” is trying a new strategy to put a target on the backs of abortion providers and recipients in the state, seeking to make potentially identifying details about them publicly available. If the group succeeds in forcing Indiana to publicly release records associated with all abortions performed there, abortion providers won’t be facing abstract…
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Texas Law Seeks to Halt Telehealth Abortions. Providers Say It Won’t Stop Them.

Texas’ massive new abortion law taking effect this week could escalate the national fight over mailing abortion pills. House Bill 7 represents abortion opponents’ most ambitious effort to halt telehealth abortions, which have helped patients get around strict bans in Texas and other states after Roe v. Wade was overturned. The law, which goes into effect December 4…
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