Anti-abortion protesters march past the Planned Parenthood in Bloomington, Ind., after the Rally for Life march in January 2023. The facility offers birth control and testing for sexually transmitted diseases now that abortion is banned in Indiana. Jeremy Hogan/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images hide caption
The "Rally for Life" march at the Texas State Capitol in Austin in January. Even groups that oppose abortion are asking for more clarity on exceptions to the state's abortion bans. Suzanne Cordiero/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
Abortion rights activists at the Supreme Court in Washington, D.C. on March 26, the day the case about the abortion drug mifepristone was heard. The number of abortions in the U.S. increased, a study says, surprising researchers. Drew Angerer/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
The Match Day ceremony at the University of California, Irvine, on March 15. Match Day is the day when medical students seeking residency and fellowship training positions find out their options. Increasingly, medical students are choosing to go to states that don't restrict abortion. Jeff Gritchen/MediaNews Group via Getty Images hide caption
The medical community dates pregnancy to the first day of a woman's last period, even though fertilization generally happens two weeks after that. It's a long-standing practice but a confusing one. Nikola Stojadinovic/Getty Images hide caption
ProLife Across America, a national nonprofit, has placed multiple anti-abortion billboards in Rapid City, South Dakota. Arielle Zionts/KFF Health News hide caption
Kate Cox is about 21 weeks pregnant and her fetus has a condition that is almost always fatal. She is also having problems with her own health that has sent her to the emergency room multiple times. Cox family hide caption
Nicole Blackmon says she is mourning two children, the teenager she lost to gun violence and her stillborn baby. She is suing Tennessee because she says abortion bans interfered with her care. Splash Cinema/Center for Reproductive Rights hide caption
Rep. Ann Johnson, a Democrat from Houston, authored a Texas law that doctors say will be life-saving for women with two pregnancy complications. She worked across the aisle with the author of S.B. 8. Eric Gay/AP hide caption
Dr. Austin Dennard at her home in Dallas in May. She is one of 13 patients and two other doctors suing Texas over its abortion bans. LM Otero/AP hide caption
Nurse practitioner Arin Kramer prepares to insert a contraceptive implant under the skin of I'laysia Vital's upper arm, as physician assistant Andrea Marquez (rear) offers support. Vital will attend college at Texas Southern University in Houston, where most abortions are banned. April Dembosky/KQED hide caption
The Center for Reproductive Rights brought the lawsuit on behalf of 13 women and two doctors. The women had pregnancy complications that endangered their lives or had fetuses with fatal anomalies. Sarah McCammon/NPR hide caption
Abortion rights supporters demonstrate outside the U.S. Supreme Court on June 24, 2022, in response to its decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization. Brandon Bell/Getty Images hide caption
Democratic Sen. Tammy Baldwin in Washington, D.C., in 2019. Her state of Wisconsin now has near total ban on abortion under an 1849 law. Mark Wilson/Getty Images hide caption
Dr. Franz Theard performs a sonogram on a patient seeking abortion services at the Women's Reproductive Clinic in Santa Teresa, New Mexico, a state that has not banned abortions. Robyn Beck/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
Dustin and Jaci Statton in an engagement photo from 2021. Jaci found out she had a partial molar pregnancy and couldn't get the abortion she needed in Oklahoma. They traveled to Kansas for care. Rachel Megan Photography hide caption
Opponents of LB626, which would have banned abortions in Nebraska after about six weeks, celebrate Thursday in the rotunda at the Nebraska State Capital in Lincoln, Neb., after the bill fails to get the votes necessary to invoke cloture. Larry Robinson/Lincoln Journal Star via AP hide caption
Anti-abortion and abortion rights activists protest in Washington, D.C. at the March for Life rally in January. The decision triggered strict abortion bans in more than a dozen states. A new study shows widespread confusion about abortion bans at Oklahoma hospitals. Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images hide caption
Samantha Casiano and Luis Villasana and had a baby last week who died shortly after birth. The fatal condition was diagnosed at 20 weeks of pregnancy. When Casiano asked her OB-GYN what her options were, she was told, "You don't have any options. You have to go on with your pregnancy." Kelsey Durell hide caption
American Medical Association President Dr. Jack Resneck recently recounted how doctors around the country are facing difficulties practicing medicine in states that ban abortion. Nicole Xu for NPR hide caption
Altia Connor, 71, of Louisville, says she remembers a time when pregnant teens sometimes died from botched abortions. She opposes Amendment 2. Sarah McCammon/NPR hide caption
Protesters march outside the Indiana state Capitol building on July 25, 2022, in Indianapolis as activists gathered during a special session. Jon Cherry/Getty Images hide caption
Abortion rights activists chant slogans as the Indiana Senate debates during a special session in Indianapolis before voting to ban abortions. SOPA Images/LightRocket via Gett hide caption