Republican U.S. Senate candidate John Deaton holds a news conference outside the State House in Boston, Mass., on Tuesday, Oct. 1, 2024. Deaton is running against Democratic U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren (John L. Micek/MassLive). John L. Micek

Before the 2024 election, use this guide to understand abortion in all U.S states, including current laws, challenges, exceptions, waiting periods, and more.

The Harris campaign is trying to transform women in battleground states into an organizing force who can drive their friends and family to the polls.

Candidates ranging from Donald Trump to House candidates are seeking to soften, or appear to soften, their hardline stances.

Battleground states’ ballot measures on abortion could benefit former President Donald Trump in the election, the Trump campaign’s political director told The Washington Post Friday, as polling suggests Republicans are willing to turn out to support abortion rights but still back Trump,

Abortion rights groups have outraised opponents by a nearly 8-to-1 margin in campaigns for ballot measures across the U.S. this year.

In overturning Roe v. Wade, the US Supreme Court didn’t so much settle America’s long-running fight over abortion as push the battle to states. The court’s June 2022 ruling in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization repealed constitutional and thus nationwide protections for abortions that had been in place since 1973.

Nebraskans will vote on a whopping six ballot measures this fall, including medical marijuana, abortion access, school choice and paid sick leave.

The former first lady reportedly defends reproductive rights in her forthcoming memoir. She also posted a video Thursday about "individual freedom" for women.

Former First Lady Melania Trump defended the right to an abortion in her upcoming memoir, according to an exclusive report by the Guardian.

Melania Trump wrote in her upcoming memoir, “Melania,” that it is “imperative to guarantee that women have autonomy in deciding their preference of having children, based on their own convictions, free from any intervention or pressure from the government.”