Abigail Abrams

Abigail Abrams is a politics writer for TIME.

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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

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

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

Midterms Could Impact Abortion in These States

State-level races carry outsized weight this year.

By Abigail Abrams

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

Supreme Court Overturns Roe v. Wade

The Supreme Court has scrapped the constitutional protection for abortion.

By Abigail Abrams and Madeleine Carlisle

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

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

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

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

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 entered...

By Abigail Abrams

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 Supreme...

By Abigail Abrams

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

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
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