Poll: Abortion access politics a year after Dobbs overturned Roe
Frustrated Democrats call on party to do more; Republicans largely more satisfied with progress party has made.
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Frustrated Democrats call on party to do more; Republicans largely more satisfied with progress party has made.
Saturday marks one year since the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade. New CBS News polling reveals how Americans currently feel about the decision. CBS News political correspondent Caitlin Huey-Burns reports.
Saturday marks one year since the Supreme Court overturned the landmark Roe v. Wade ruling, sending the fight over abortion rights back to individual states. New polling from CBS News shows 57% of people think the court's decision has been bad for the country. CBS News congressional correspondent Nikole Killion reports from Capitol Hill.
The billboards are part of a larger effort by Democrats to begin to mobilize supporters around abortion rights in the 2024 elections.
The Supreme Court overturned the landmark Roe v. Wade ruling one year ago, sending the fight over abortion rights back to individual states. CBS News executive director of elections and surveys Anthony Salvanto discusses a new CBS News poll that finds a majority of Americans, 57%, say overturning the ruling has been mostly bad for the country.
A CBS News investigation found a coordinated campaign, heavily funded by a leading Republican megadonor, aimed at making it difficult to pass amendments on abortion. Caitlin Huey-Burns reports.
A CBS News investigation found the effort being heavily funded by GOP megadonor Richard Uihlein.
Many women's concerns now extend beyond abortion access to health and reproductive care.
In the year since the Supreme Court struck down Roe v. Wade, Mississippi has seen several labor and delivery units shutter. Critics say that, despite new legislation expanding postpartum Medicaid and encouraging adoption, the state isn't doing enough to meet the crisis of infant and maternal mortality. Caitlin Huey-Burns takes a look at how families and doctors are managing for the series "After Roe: One Year."
As labor and delivery units across the state shutter, one doctor has started a program to help train emergency workers to deliver babies.
The U.S. is facing a shortage of OB-GYN doctors that is expected to get worse in the coming years as medical students decide what and where to study while abortion rights are restricted in some states. Janet Shamlian takes a look at the looming crisis for the new series "After Roe: One Year."
The shortage could put the health of all women at risk, as OB-GYNs also screen for cancer, perform well-woman exams and prescribe contraception.
In a rare 3-3 split decision, the Iowa Supreme Court upheld a 2019 district court ruling that blocked the law.
Facing doctor burnout, soaring medical costs and an influx of legislation targeting the LGBTQ community, Dr. Jesse Ehrenfeld is taking over at a difficult time.
The group that provided the pills, thinking the woman was only seven weeks pregnant, says the case shows "the desperate need" for reform of U.K. abortion laws.
Gov. Joe Lombardo, who describes himself as pro-life, has said he would respect the will of Nevada voters who codified abortion rights up to 24 weeks in a 1990 referendum vote.
A state judge on Friday temporarily halted a new South Carolina law that bans nearly all abortions after six weeks. The judge halted the law pending a review by the state's Supreme Court.
South Carolina passed a 6-week abortion ban, over the objections of the state’s only five women senators. A judge has temporarily halted the measure until the state Supreme Court can review it. The bipartisan group of women sat down with CBS News political correspondent Caitlin Huey-Burns in their first group interview after the vote to reflect what the ban means not just for South Carolina but women across the country.
South Carolina's new six-week abortion ban was signed into law just about 24 hours before Judge Clifton Newman halted it.
Attorney General Todd Rokita filed a complaint with Indiana's medical licensing board against Dr. Caitlin Bernard after she spoke publicly about a 10-year-old's abortion.
The law restricts most abortions after six weeks of pregnancy, when most people do not know they are pregnant. It is effective immediately.
The only five women in the South Carolina Senate, who call themselves the "sister senators," sat down with CBS News to discuss their opposition to the state's six-week abortion ban.
South Carolina's Senate has voted to enact a ban on nearly all abortions after six weeks. The bill now heads to Republican Gov. Henry McMaster's desk, where he is expected to sign it into law. CBS News reporter Sarah Ewall-Wice reports from Columbia, South Carolina.
Doctors who violate it could face felony charges carrying two years imprisonment.
South Carolina is set to enact a ban on nearly all abortions after six weeks. The state's Senate passed the bill on Tuesday. It now heads to Republican Gov. Henry McMaster's desk for his signature. CBS News reporter Sarah Ewall-Wice has more on what .