Dea Kulumbegashvili embedded for a year inside a maternity clinic for her new film, April, about an obstetrician in rural Georgia, as the country faces increased abortion restrictions.
Since the Supreme Court struck down Roe v. Wade in 2022, one study estimates there’s been nearly 65,000 pregnancies from rape in states that ban abortion.
A new mural memorializing two Georgia women who died after trying to have an abortion has been unveiled in Decatur, serving as a public reminder of what advocates say is the harm caused by abortion bans.
Nearly a year after the U.S. Supreme Court allowed abortion bans around the country to take effect, some cities and states are pushing in the other direction, a new report finds.
A report from the Guttmacher Institute finds that state abortion restrictions do not necessarily correlate to a lower abortion rate, as more patients travel out of state.
Click to see how restrictive or liberal local abortion laws are — and to look at the rate of abortion. The data offers a sense of whether stricter abortion laws reduce the number of abortions.
The bill would ban most abortions as early as around six weeks, allow people to sue anyone who helps end a pregnancy after that point and fine physicians $10,000 for each such abortion they perform.
