Advocates on both sides of the fight over access to reproductive rights are gearing up for an expected debate this year over whether and how lawmakers should create new protections for access to in-vitro fertilization.
Women who have suffered unnecessarily after being denied abortions are talking about it publicly, and to support candidates. Could these stories have a political impact in the upcoming election?
Polls show some Democrats aren't excited to vote for Vice President Harris. On Saturday, Michelle Obama railed against “the lie that we do not know who Kamala is or what she stands for."
People in politics have shared their experiences with infertility, including Michelle Obama and Mike Pence. But men haven't been as open about it on the campaign trail like Walz has.
The national debate over whether laws or patients should determine abortion access dominated a U.S. Senate committee hearing Tuesday, when a panel of six experts testified about the complicated nature of treating pregnancies and miscarriages.
President Biden eked out a win in Georgia last time, a victory that helped take him over the top in the Electoral College. But there are some warning signs it could be hard to do it again in 2024.
Since Roe v. Wade was overturned, state laws on abortion have been changing constantly. It will all be part of the picture as voters go to the polls in November.
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Religions hold a variety of views toward IVF. Catholicism has one of the strongest negative judgments against the practice. Yet many in the church still use the procedure in order to have children.
In his State of the Union address Thursday, President Biden highlighted key achievements of his first term and made the case that voters should give him a second. Here are six highlights.
The vice president is hitting the road to talk about reproductive freedom, an issue Democrats want to highlight in the 2024 election. Her first stop marks the 51st anniversary of Roe v Wade.
Kate Cox, a 31-year-old mother of two, is ill and carrying a fetus with a genetic condition that is almost always fatal. She decided to leave Texas to get an abortion.
