Carter Sherman

1 week ago | theguardian.com | Carter Sherman

The Trump administration on Monday asked a federal court to dismiss a lawsuit that takes aim at the abortion pill mifepristone – a move that stunned many observers for what seemed a defense of the drug by a president who has overseen the most dramatic rollback of abortion rights in modern US history.

2 weeks ago | theguardian.com | Carter Sherman

Seated around a circular table in a nondescript office building just outside Boston, the volunteers pack the abortion pills into envelopes with practiced efficiency. Each of the volunteers – five women and one man – have a unique role in the assembly line. One volunteer drops slim, orange boxes of mifepristone, the first drug typically used in a medication abortion, into the envelopes, while another volunteer adds green-capped bottles of the second drug, misoprostol.

3 weeks ago | theguardian.com | Carter Sherman

Illustration: Guardian DesignSo far this year, lawmakers in at least 12states have introduced legislation that would treat fetuses as people and leave women who have abortions vulnerable to being charged with homicide – a charge that, in several of these states, carries the death penalty. Once seen as politically toxic, this kind of legislation has become more popular in the years since Roe v Wade fell, erasing the national right to abortion.

3 weeks ago | theguardian.com | Carter Sherman

For the second year in a row, abortion providers performed more than 1m abortions in the United States in 2024. About 155,000 people crossed state lines for abortions – roughly double the number of patients who did so in 2020, before the US supreme court overturned Roe v Wade and paved the way for more than a dozen state-level abortion bans to take effect.

1 month ago | theguardian.com | Carter Sherman

More than 10 days after the Trump administration froze roughly $66m of federal funds that had been earmarked for no- and low-cost family planning services,the providers that had been scheduled to receive that money are staring down the possibility of financial collapse. Title X, the country’s largest federal family planning program, provides clinics across the country with more than $200m each year for services such as contraception, STI tests and cancer screenings.