Anti-abortion groups are pressing the Trump Justice Department and Food and Drug Administration to quickly reverse Biden administration policies on abortion pills and impose a clampdown, including the use of a 19th-century anti-obscenity law to block the mailing of the drugs.

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In the early days of his second term in office, Donald Trump has been cagey about where his administration will take abortion policy.

Efforts to limit access to mifepristone have received a boost from a federal judge who took the bench during Trump's first term.

Some GOP senators want public commitments from Robert F. Kennedy Jr. before deciding whether to support him as the next secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, signaling that President Donald Trump’s pick will have to win over uncertain Republicans in order to secure the job.

President-elect Trump campaigned on leaving abortion decisions to the states, but that could prove a tough promise to keep as he returns to the Oval Office. Anti-abortion groups want Trump

The federal judge who paved a path for abortion drug clearance to reach the Supreme Court has allowed red states to revive the legal battle against mifepristone. | U.S. District Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk ruled Thursday that Idaho,

A new study shows a possible new abortion drug to replace mifepristone. But will these results increase abortion access—or restrict women's reproductive health options down the line?

The new Trump administration could put a stop to pending litigation on the abortion pill mifepristone and other federal abortion policies through changes at the Department of Health and Human Services,

New Jersey already has some of the strongest abortion rights in the United States, but advocates, healthcare providers, and even Gov. Phil Murphy himself are calling for reinforcements ahead of the next presidency.

Trump granted pardons on his first day in office to hundreds of criminal defendants but left out anti-abortion protesters who were charged with the FACE Act.

Kennedy has repeatedly questioned the efficacy and even safety of vaccines touted by most doctors as medical miracles responsible for saving tens of million lives globally.