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NPR's Audie Cornish speaks with Dr. Randall Williams, director of the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services, about the investigation he is overseeing into Missouri's only abortion clinic.

Political scientists, attorneys and advocates on both sides of the issue talk about how an abortion guaranteeing access to abortion, fertility treatments and other reproductive services might be applied in Ohio.

The bill would require doctors to provide medical care if a potentially viable birth results from an abortion.

Arizona has seen rising support for abortion rights among Latinos. The reasons are varied and complicated.

"Pregnant people who once faced near-insurmountable barriers accessing abortion care can now seize the right to control their own bodies," Senate President Emerita Harriette Chandler said Tuesday.

Ohioans for Reproductive Freedom could have a constitutional amendment on the Ohio ballot this November. And they've hired a high-powered political consulting firm which defeated challenges to abortion rights in Kansas and Kentucky in 2022.

The decision last week by Hamilton County Judge Alison Hatheway came in a case brought by a group of clinics and the ACLU of Ohio. An earlier iteration of the legal challenge had argued that a lack of rules, including whether a death certificate would be required, made complying with the law “impossible.”

In countries where abortions are illegal, the issue raises questions about whether laws should be adjusted in response to the health crisis.

Planned Parenthood wants a court to halt portions of a new Indiana abortion law. It’s the fifth lawsuit over abortion legislation in seven years.

A federal trial pits the last remaining clinic providing abortions in Kentucky against the state's Republican administration, which says the center failed to meet state health standards.