Vehicles drive past a Planned Parenthood office in Peoria, Ill., in December 2016. Daniel Acker/Bloomberg via Getty Images hide caption
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Students at a school for midwives wait in a classroom in Sierra Leone. UNFPA supports the local ministry of health with a program that promotes maternal health and family planning. Marco Longari/AFP/Getty Images hide caption
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Robin Utz at her home in St. Louis, Mo. Carolina Hidalgo/KWMU hide caption
Missouri Rejects Federal Money In Order To Set Up Its Own Abortion Restrictions
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Missouri Rejects Federal Money In Order To Set Up Its Own Abortion Restrictions
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Speaker of the House Paul Ryan, R-Wis., explains the Republican plan to replace the Affordable Care Act during his weekly press conference at the U.S. Capitol on Thursday. Win McNamee/Getty Images hide caption
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About 35 percent of the patients at this clinic in York, Pa., receive Medicaid. The clinic offers STD testing, cancer screening and contraception services as well as abortion services. Sarah McCammon/NPR hide caption
Public Clinics Fear Federal Cuts To Planned Parenthood Would Strand Patients
Thursday
Lilianne Ploumen is a government minister in the Netherlands. "I was in a position to do something," she says of her decision to start the "She Decides" initiative. John Thys/AFP/Getty Images hide caption
Wednesday
In response to an anti-abortion march in McAllen, Texas, many pro-abortion rights demonstrators encircled the Whole Woman's Health clinic, which is the only abortion provider in the Rio Grande Valley. Courtesy of Laura Molinar hide caption
At Texas Clinic, 2 Women Explain What Changed Their Minds On Abortion
Saturday
Norma McCorvey, who adopted the pseudonym "Jane Roe" in the Supreme Court's Roe v. Wade decision, is seen in 1990. AP hide caption
Thursday
President Trump signs an executive order alongside Vice President Pence administration officials. One of the documents Trump signed that day was a memorandum reinstating the "Mexico City policy." Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty Images hide caption
Friday
Opponents of abortion rights gather at the Washington Monument to hear Vice President Pence speak at the March for Life rally on Friday. Tasos Katopodis/AFP/Getty Images hide caption
On Abortion, Goals Of Back-To-Back Marches Couldn't Be More Different
Monday
A mobile clinic outside Mombassa, Kenya, provides women in rural areas with family planning options like contraceptive implants and offers cervical cancer screening as well. Jonathan Torgovnik/Getty Images hide caption
Trump Bans U.S. Funding For Groups That 'Promote' Abortion Overseas
Sunday
President Donald Trump is joined by the Congressional leadership and his family before formally signing his cabinet nominations into law on Jan. 20 in the President's Room of the Senate on Capitol Hill in Washington. From left are, Vice President Mike Pence, the president's wife Melania Trump, their son Barron Trump, and House Speaker Paul Ryan. J. Scott Applewhite/AP hide caption
Thursday
Anne Logan Bass, a clinician at Planned Parenthood in Roanoke, Va., fears that misinformation and inaccurate information will make it harder for the nonprofit organization to do its job providing women's health services, including abortions. Ari Shapiro/NPR hide caption
At A Virginia Planned Parenthood Clinic, Practitioners Worry For Their Patients
Sunday
House Speaker Paul Ryan and Vice President-elect Mike Pence plan to include defunding of Planned Parenthood in a budget reconciliation bill intended to also defund the Affordable Care Act. J. Scott Applewhite/AP hide caption