Roe v. Wade

From June 2022 to June 2023, there were at least 210 pregnancy-related prosecutions in the U.S. Oklahoma trailed Alabama, at 68 prosecutions.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said maternal mortality — the death of a woman while pregnant or within 42 days of termination of pregnancy — is a crucial health concern.

Texas’ fertility rose after new abortion restrictions, raising concerns that special education and specialized health care will be stretched even thinner.

According to the CDC, Texas leads the nation with the highest rate of 'repeat teen births.' That’s a pregnant teen who already had at least one other child. Since abortion was virtually outlawed in Texas, pregnant teens have few options.

Nationally, Black people giving birth are three times more likely to die than their white counterparts, and twice as likely in Texas. That concerns reproductive justice advocates, who fear these outcomes will worsen now that Roe v. Wade is overturned, and people can’t access abortion services.

The 1925 law at the core of the case was in effect until the 1973 U.S. Supreme Court decision in Roe v. Wade. It made performing an abortion punishable by up to five years in prison.

Texas already had one of the nation's strictest abortion bans. With the Supreme Court's decision, it is set to become even more restrictive.

Emily Wales takes over leadership of Planned Parenthood Great Plains — which operates clinics in Kansas, Oklahoma and other states — right as the U.S. Supreme Court prepares to shrink abortion rights nationwide.

After a leaked U.S. Supreme Court ruling overturning the landmark case that promised women the right to abortion, an August vote to amend the Kansas Constitution over abortion has taken on heightened importance.

Texas’ anti-abortion movement is on the cusp of achieving a goal 50 years in the making. Now, it’ll be up to the old guard and new torchbearers to decide what’s next.