Poll: Widespread concerns among Americans about reproductive care access
More Americans feel the Republican Party is going too far to restrict abortion access than feel the Democratic party is going too far to allow it.
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More Americans feel the Republican Party is going too far to restrict abortion access than feel the Democratic party is going too far to allow it.
Virginia is one of the most closely watched states in the 2023 election cycle. Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin speaks with CBS News campaign reporter Olivia Rinaldi about his party's prospects in the state.
The Senate confirmed three military nominees Thursday -- a trickle of progress after Sen. Tommy Tuberville's months-long blockade. CBS News congressional correspondent Scott MacFarlane explains how lawmakers could get around the stoppage.
Sen. Tommy Tuberville, a Republican from Alabama, continues his hold on more than 370 military nominations as a protest to a Pentagon policy that pays for service members' travel expenses for abortions and other reproductive care. CBS News congressional correspondent Scott MacFarlane spoke to Tuberville after his Republican colleagues publicly chastised him Wednesday, claiming his tactics are harming America's military priorities.
Court documents show Idaho police began investigating the pair earlier this summer after a 15-year-old girl's mother told authorities her daughter had been sexually assaulted and later taken to Oregon to get an abortion.
Idaho's abortion ban is leading many OB/GYNs to relocate and forcing patients to travel out of state for reproductive health care. CBS News national correspondent Adriana Diaz reports.
Since Roe v. Wade was overturned, 14 states have implemented near-total abortion bans. In Idaho, abortion is a felony unless it’s a matter of saving a mother's life or a case of rape or incest that has been reported to police. Anyone who helps a minor leave the state for an abortion could face jail time. CBS News' Adriana Diaz reports.
Idaho's restrictive abortion ban is fueling a maternal care exodus. More than half of the state's high-risk OB/GYNs are expected to be gone by the end of the year. Adriana Diaz has the story.
Doctors CBS News spoke with said treating non-viable pregnancies, in which the fetus is not expected to survive, puts them and their patients in what they call an impossible position.
In a 2005 op-ed piece in the Shreveport Times, Johnson also compared the judicial philosophy that legalized the right to an abortion to Hitler's.
House Speaker Mike Johnson responded to the deadly Maine shootings, calling them a "horrific tragedy" Thursday. CBS News congressional correspondent Nikole Killion reports on how Johnson is approaching the position a day after winning the gavel.
The number of abortions in the U.S. rose slightly in the 12 months after states began implementing bans on them, according to a report from the Society of Family Planning.
The Georgia Supreme Court has rejected a lower court's ruling that the state's restrictive abortion law was invalid, leaving limited access to abortions unchanged for now.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom has selected EMILY's List president Laphonza Butler to fill the seat of the late Sen. Dianne Feinstein. Butler has been the president of the organization dedicated to electing women since 2021. Political advisers Joel Payne and Maura Gillespie join "America Decides" to unpack Newsom's pick.
The GOP field of candidates is fractured over how far into a pregnancy abortion should be prohibited and whether a federal ban is appropriate.
The privacy lawsuit came days before state lawmakers filed a disciplinary complaint against the attorney general for alleged professional misconduct.
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis declined to say whether he supports a national abortion ban.
New lawsuits will be filed Tuesday, challenging near-total abortion bans in three states, CBS News has learned. The Center for Reproductive Rights plans to sue Idaho, Oklahoma, and Tennessee on behalf of women who say they suffered severe pregnancy complications. CBS News chief legal correspondent Jan Crawford has more on these cases.
Vice President Kamala Harris called the claims that Democrats support abortions up until birth "ridiculous" and a "mischaracterization of the point."
It comes two years after the court ruled that abortion was not a crime in one northern state.
More out-of-state travelers also used nonprofit or charity funds to obtain abortion care, the study found.
The Ohio Ballot Board added the words "unborn child" and made other changes to ballot language describing a measure that would enshrine abortion rights in the state constitution.
A new CBS News poll is providing more insight into the issues GOP voters want candidates to talk about at Wednesday's Republican presidential debate. 86% of likely Republican primary voters responded that it is "very important" to hear from candidates about plans to lower inflation. Anthony Salvanto, CBS News executive director of elections and surveys, breaks down the findings.
The 4-1 ruling departs from the court's own decision months earlier striking down a similar ban that the Republican-led legislature passed in 2021.
GOP primary voters divide over wanting a candidate who supports a national abortion ban.