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![Former President Donald Trump speaks during a campaign event at Alro Steel on August 29, 2024, in Potterville, Michigan.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/08/2024_0830-trump-800x600.jpg)
Trump Is Promising to Protect IVF. Critics Say His Past Actions Show He’s Lying.
Republicans voted against IVF protections in June, including Trump's running mate, Ohio Sen. J.D. Vance.
![A surgical abortion room at Equity Clinic in Champaign, Illinois, on May 21, 2023.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/08/GettyImages-2158433445-400x300.jpg)
People Caught Up by Criminal Legal System Face More Obstacles to Abortion Access
A new report details the unique precarity of seeking abortions while under carceral confinement.
![Protestors demonstrate at the March for Reproductive Rights organized by Women’s March L.A. on April 15, 2023, in Los Angeles, California.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/08/2024_0822-abortion-400x300.jpg)
Arkansas Supreme Court Disqualifies Abortion Amendment From November Ballot
The state has one of the strictest abortion bans in the US, with abortion care allowed only in medical emergencies.
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Panelists on Abortion Ballot Initiatives Optimistic About Passage of Measures
The panelists also noted that the longer abortion bans remain in place, “the more horror stories we hear.”
![Abortion advocate Amanda Zurawski speaks at a Biden-Harris campaign and DNC press conference on July 17, 2024, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/08/2024_0819-abortion-dnc-400x300.jpg)
DNC to Feature Women With Distressing Post-Roe Abortion Stories Monday Night
The women will highlight how the end of Roe v. Wade has harmed pregnant people throughout the U.S.
![A sign on an empty podium on white granite steps reads "REPRODUCTIVE FREEDOM NOW"](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/08/2024_0819-abortion-400x300.jpg)
Missouri Tax Credits Are Being Used to Fund Out-of-State Anti-Abortion Efforts
A group receiving the credit for pregnancy resource centers deploys paid workers outside clinics in Illinois and Kansas.
![Right-wing activist Leonard Leo (center) attends the 2023 Antonin Scalia Memorial Dinner that is part of the Federalist Society's 2023 National Lawyers Convention at the Washington Hilton Hotel on November 9, 2023, in Washington, D.C.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/08/GettyImages-2011427763-400x300.jpg)
Leonard Leo’s Effort to Gut Planned Parenthood Threatens Myriad Health Services
A lawsuit in Texas has a web of ties to Leo and builds on a years-long campaign by anti-abortion activists.
![Arizona for Abortion Access, the ballot initiative to enshrine abortion rights in the Arizona State Constitution, holds a press conference and protest condemning Arizona House Republicans and the 1864 abortion ban during a recess from a legislative session at the Arizona House of Representatives on April 17, 2024, in Phoenix, Arizona.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/08/2024-0815-abortion-400x300.jpg)
AZ High Court: Ballot Measure Explainer to Call Fetuses “Unborn Human Beings”
Critics called the politically charged phrasing “a watchword for anti-abortion advocates with no basis in medicine or science.”
![A protester holds a sign reading "AMERICA IS NOT A CHRISTIAN NATION" outside of the supreme court of the united states](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/08/2024_0814-america-abortion-400x300.jpg)
Most Women Support Abortion Protections, Including 40 Percent of GOP Women
A new survey finds that while the major political parties remain divided on abortion, US women are fairly aligned.
![Members of Arizona for Abortion Access, the ballot initiative to enshrine abortion rights in the Arizona State Constitution, hold a press conference at the Arizona House of Representatives on April 17, 2024, in Phoenix, Arizona.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/08/2024_0813-abortion-arizona-400x300.jpg)
Arizona Abortion Rights Amendment Is Officially on the November Ballot
Nearly 578,000 signatures were certified, the highest number ever for a ballot initiative proposal in Arizona history.
![A group of doctors join abortion rights supporters at a rally outside the Supreme Court on April 24, 2024, in Washington, D.C.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/08/2024_0812-abortion-p-400x300.jpg)
Despite Fed Rule, More Than 100 Pregnant People Denied Care by Hospitals and ERs
Doctors fear state laws could land them in prison because of vague language around life-saving exceptions to abortion.
![Former President Donald Trump speaks during a press conference at his Mar-a-Lago estate on August 8, 2024, in Palm Beach, Florida.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/08/2024_0809-donald-trump-400x300.jpg)
Trump’s Vague Answer on Mifepristone Suggests He’ll Restrict It, If Elected
“If elected, he will outsource his abortion policy to anti-abortion groups,” one critic suggested.
![Members of Arizona for Abortion Access, the ballot initiative to enshrine abortion rights in the Arizona State Constitution, hold a press conference and protest at the Arizona House of Representatives on April 17, 2024, in Phoenix, Arizona.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/08/2024_0806-abortion-400x300.jpg)
Arizona Judge Tosses Right-Wing Group’s Challenge to Abortion Ballot Measure
The lawsuit made a dubious claim that the language of the ballot measure was too confusing for voters to understand.