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Abigail Abrams
Abigail Abrams is a politics writer for TIME.
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Democrats Are Telling Abortion Stories on the Campaign Trail
Though politicians at all levels have been talking about abortion in new ways, nowhere is that more true than in state legislative races.
By Abigail Abrams
October 28, 2022
Voters' Top Issue Is the Economy, But Democrats Hope Abortion Will Resonate More
"There is pretty strong evidence to suggest that abortion is going to be a very important issue at the ballot box."
By Abigail Abrams/Eastpointe, Mich.
October 26, 2022
The Abortion-Rights Messages That Resonate With Men
Dad channels, bros, and male messengers: advocates and campaigners are adjusting their strategies to win over male voters with abortion-rights messages.
By Abigail Abrams
October 25, 2022
Michigan Is Fighting One of the Most Significant Abortion Battles in the Country
While five states have ballot measures related to abortion in November, Michigan’s will have the most direct impact.
By Abigail Abrams/Wyoming, Mich.
October 24, 2022
The Fall of Roe v. Wade Has Changed the Doctor-Patient Relationship
More than a dozen doctors, health care lawyers, and hospital ethics committee members in nine states share their challenges in approaching abortion care.
By Abigail Abrams
October 17, 2022
Abortion is Central to Oregon's All-Women Governors' Race
The race has turned into something of a referendum on the effectiveness of candidates' messaging on abortion post-Roe v. Wade.
By Abigail Abrams
October 13, 2022
Where Abortion Is Literally on the Ballot in 2022
Six states have amendments or measures affecting abortion on the ballot.
By Abigail Abrams
October 4, 2022
None of these Major Midterm Campaign Websites Are Fully Accessible to Disabled Voters
“It just is a great concern when access to communication is denied to a certain population.”
By Abigail Abrams
September 27, 2022
Exclusive: Elizabeth Warren Presses Crisis Pregnancy Centers on Abortion Data Gathering
Senate Democrats are asking the country’s largest network of anti-abortion pregnancy centers to provide information about how it gathers, protects, and shares the personal data of pregnant people
By Abigail Abrams
September 20, 2022
Veterans Affairs' New Policy to Provide Abortions Sets Off Battle With Conservative States
Republican lawmakers vow to fight the policy that the VA will provide abortion services even in states that have outlawed the procedure.
By Abigail Abrams
September 15, 2022
Republicans Are Divided Over How Extreme to Make Their New Abortion Bans
As Republicans debate these policies, they're deciding for the first time since the 1970s what abortion looks like in America without a guaranteed right to the procedure.
By Abigail Abrams
September 15, 2022
Lindsey Graham Proposes National 15-Week Abortion Ban
It's the biggest step by Republicans to restrict abortion on a federal level since Roe v. Wade fell.
By Abigail Abrams
September 13, 2022
An Ohio Woman Was Forced to Travel Out of State for an Abortion
Tara George was excited to be pregnant. But when complications arose, she joined a growing number of women throughout the country who have been caught in a shifting legal landscape over abortion.
By Abigail Abrams
August 29, 2022
Does Federal Law Protect Abortions in Medical Emergencies?
Upcoming cases in Texas and Idaho have major stakes for whether pregnant patients can get emergency abortions in states with bans.
By Abigail Abrams
August 18, 2022
How Trump Judges Limit Biden Executive Orders
Inside the White House, there’s a growing reluctance to take executive orders much further, partly out of concern that it could backfire.
By Brian Bennett and Abigail Abrams
August 15, 2022
How the Inflation Reduction Act Could Lower Your Drug Costs
The House on Friday passed the broad climate, tax, and health care package that the Senate passed over the weekend, delivering key pieces of President Joe Biden's stalled economic agenda.
By Abigail Abrams
August 8, 2022
Kansas Abortion Vote Offers Roadmap for Future of Access
Kansas’ Aug. 2 primary election marked the first major win for abortion rights supporters since the fall of Roe v. Wade.
By Abigail Abrams and Madeleine Carlisle
August 3, 2022
Doctors with Disabilities Push Change in Medicine
A movement is trying to make health care more inclusive of people with disabilities as Long Covid looms.
By Abigail Abrams
July 27, 2022
Kansas Abortion Vote Offers First Test of New Post-Roe Battleground: State Constitutions
The Aug. 2 vote will mark the first time the issue of abortion has been on the ballot since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade.
By Madeleine Carlisle/Overland Park, KS and Abigail Abrams
July 27, 2022
Planned Parenthood CEO Discusses The Post-Roe Fight For Abortion Access–And The “Opportunity To Reimagine… Something Better”
(To receive weekly emails of conversations with the world’s top CEOs and business decisionmakers, click here.) When the Supreme Court released its decision overturning Roe v. Wade on June 24, Alexis McGill Johnson was ready....
By Abigail Abrams
July 17, 2022
First U.S. Application for Over-the-Counter Birth Control Pill
Since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade and set off a cascade of abortion bans around the country, access to contraception has taken on increased importance. To get birth control pills and other hormonal...
By Abigail Abrams
July 11, 2022
Does Religious Freedom Protect a Right to an Abortion?
When Florida passed a law this spring that bans most abortions after 15 weeks of pregnancy, Rabbi Barry Silver was furious. And when it looked like the Supreme Court was likely to overturn Roe v....
By Madeleine Carlisle and Abigail Abrams
July 7, 2022
Governor Gretchen Whitmer on Her Fight for Abortion Access in Michigan
As states scramble to adjust their abortion policies in the wake of the Supreme Court’s decision overturning Roe v. Wade, Michigan has emerged as one of the most hotly contested battlegrounds. And Michigan Governor Gretchen...
By Abigail Abrams
July 6, 2022
Midterms Could Impact Abortion in These States
State-level races carry outsized weight this year.
By Abigail Abrams
July 1, 2022
The Future of Abortion Access After Roe v. Wade
The period that we are entering now will look not like 1972. Rather, it will be a futuristic steampunk version of the American past
By Abigail Abrams
June 24, 2022
Supreme Court Overturns Roe v. Wade
The Supreme Court has scrapped the constitutional protection for abortion.
By Abigail Abrams and Madeleine Carlisle
June 24, 2022
Anti-Abortion Pregnancy Centers Amass Data
A TIME investigation found the data could expose women to major legal risks in a post-Roe world
By Abigail Abrams and Vera Bergengruen
June 22, 2022
The Pharmacist Expanding Abortion Pill Access
Jessica Nouhavandi's Honeybee Health, an online mail-order pharmacy start-up, is already one of the nation's leading distributors of abortion pills
By Abigail Abrams
June 13, 2022
Activists Race to Expand Abortion Pill Access
If the Supreme Court overturns Roe v. Wade this summer, as a leaked draft opinion suggests it may, abortion will likely be banned or severely restricted in about half of the United States. But that...
By Abigail Abrams and Jamie Ducharme
May 31, 2022
Anti-Abortion Fringe and the Buffalo Shooter
In the week since a gunman killed 10 people in a grocery store in Buffalo, N.Y., countless articles and television spots have unpacked the racist conspiracy he shared in a hate-filled manifesto before his shooting...
By Jasmine Aguilera and Abigail Abrams
May 21, 2022
Why Overturning Roe Would Transform American
In the 49 years since the U.S. Supreme Court established a constitutional right to abortion, the experience of being a woman in this country has transformed. Birth control access has expanded, and more women have...
By Abigail Abrams
May 12, 2022
GOP States Race to Draft Anti-Abortion Bills
Less than 48 hours after a leaked draft decision showing the Supreme Court set to overturn Roe v. Wade, Republicans in the Louisiana House of Representatives advanced a bill classifying abortion as homicide from “the...
By Abigail Abrams
May 6, 2022
These States Would Restrict Abortion if Roe Falls
There is no federal law protecting abortion, so rolling back Roe would create a starker patchwork of legality and access across the country
By Abigail Abrams and Data Visualization by Emily Barone
May 3, 2022
Draft Decision Ending Roe Emboldens Activists
Both pro-abortion rights and anti-abortion activists spent most of Tuesday scrambling to respond to a leaked draft of a Supreme Court decision that would overturn Roe v. Wade. While the draft, first reported by Politico,...
By Abigail Abrams
May 3, 2022
Why Good, Cheap Birth Control is Hard to Get
The Affordable Care Act requires birth control to be covered, but Big Insurance is battling Big Pharma over who should bear the cost
By Abigail Abrams
April 25, 2022
Frontline Workers Chalk Up a Win in Houston
When the coronavirus pandemic began in 2020, Mercedes Taylor, an airport security officer in Houston, remembers feeling exposed. She works the overnight shift, where she interacts with airline employees, police officers, passengers, members of the...
By Abigail Abrams
April 20, 2022
Disabled People: 'Return to Normal' Isn't Ideal
President Joe Biden hired Kim Knackstedt in early 2021 to make sure that Americans with disabilities were not forgotten as the country returned to normal after the COVID-19 pandemic. A year later, that seems to...
By Abigail Abrams
April 15, 2022
Red States Crack Down on Abortion Pills
As conservatives states have enacted strict abortion bans and ramped up regulations on abortion clinics in recent years, many patients have relied on another avenue to the same end: abortion pills. But now, with the...
By Abigail Abrams
April 12, 2022
Biden Moves to Fix a 'Glitch' in Obamacare
President Joe Biden announced Tuesday that his administration is proposing a tweak to the Affordable Care Act to make health insurance more affordable for millions of Americans. The shift would fix what is known as...
By Abigail Abrams
April 5, 2022
New COVID-19 Funding Doesn't Help Uninsured
When Senators announced on Monday that they reached a deal for $10 billion in additional funding for the coronavirus response, many public health experts were dismayed that the package will not include aid for vaccines...
By Abigail Abrams
April 5, 2022
Telehealth Companies Want Permanent Post-Pandemic Expansion of Services
Telehealth use exploded during the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, and virtual visits have become common for a wide range of medical services. But this was only possible because of regulations the government relaxed...
By Abigail Abrams
March 30, 2022
The Uncertain Future of the Anti-Abortion Movement
On a cold, clear weekend in January, tens of thousands of anti-abortion activists convened in Washington for their annual gathering, the March for Life. The mood was triumphant. In the next few months, the U.S....
By Abigail Abrams/Washington, D.C.
March 25, 2022
What Idaho's Texas-Style Abortion Ban Means for the Rest of the Country
Idaho became the first state on Monday to pass a bill modeled after Texas’ strict law that uses private citizens to enforce a ban on abortions after about six weeks of pregnancy and to avoid...
By Abigail Abrams
March 15, 2022
What Biden’s Silence on Abortion at State of the Union Means
Following abortion rights groups' efforts to pressure President Joe Biden into speaking out in favor of reproductive rights in America, the President mentioned the topic just briefly on Tuesday during his first State of the...
By Abigail Abrams
March 2, 2022
Democrats Capitalize on Failure to Make Abortion Rights Law
A proposal to protect abortion access nationwide failed when it faced a procedural vote in the Senate on Monday. The final vote was 46-48 against the bill, the Women’s Health Protection Act (WHPA), meaning Democrats...
By Abigail Abrams
February 28, 2022
Abortion Rights Activists Say Biden Must Do More
As President Joe Biden prepares to give his first State of the Union address amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine, he faces a number of conflicts within his own party back at home—from battles over...
By Abigail Abrams
February 28, 2022
Abortion Pill Use Spikes As States and Courts Restrict Access
Abortion pills are now the most common method of ending a pregnancy in the United States for the first time since they were approved more than two decades ago, according to preliminary data released Thursday....
By Abigail Abrams
February 25, 2022
Hospitals: Nursing Agencies Are 'Exploiting'
In the 40 years that Jennie Kahn has worked as a registered nurse, the last two have been by far the most grueling. A lot of that is due to COVID-19, which transformed health care...
By Abby Vesoulis and Abigail Abrams
February 23, 2022
Senate Narrowly Confirms Robert Califf as FDA Commissioner
COVID-19 vaccines for kids, the opioid crisis, and abortion drugs are all on his agenda
By Abigail Abrams
February 15, 2022
States Push New Abortion Bans, Preempting the Supreme Court
As the Supreme Court weighs the high-profile case that could unwind Roe v. Wade—and, with it, the Constitutional right to abortion—conservative state lawmakers are introducing a wave of new bills aimed at limiting abortion at...
By Abigail Abrams
January 28, 2022
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