Researchers estimate nearly 65,000 rape-caused pregnancies have happened in states with abortion bans in effect since Roe v. Wade was overturned. The report is in JAMA Internal Medicine.

Just 1% of women obtain an abortion because they became pregnant through rape, and less than 0.5% do so because of incest, according to the Guttmacher Institute. Yet the battle over exceptions for ...

There was a brief backlash to Alabama’s law, but over the last four years, 10 states have enacted abortion bans in early pregnancy without rape or incest exceptions: Alabama, Arkansas, Kentucky ...

Abortion opponents push for an end to exceptions. For years, rape and incest exceptions have been part of the Hyde Amendment, which prohibits federal funds from being used to pay for abortions.

The modern rape and incest exception dates back to 1959 when a legal research group, the American Law Institute, wrote model abortion legislation for states. Republicans adopted the language as a ...

Abortion rights proponents are hopeful about the November election, where ballot measures in several states could restore abortion protections. Rape and incest exceptions to abortion bans have not ...

A rape, an abortion, and a one-source story: a child's ordeal becomes national news. Updated July 13, 2022 10:28 PM ET Originally published July 13, 2022 5:32 PM ET. By . David Folkenflik , ...

Though Texas, like most states with a total abortion ban, doesn’t even pretend to offer an option for rape survivors to obtain abortions, five abortion-ban states — Idaho, Indiana, Mississippi ...

The case of a 10-year-old girl who had to travel from her home in Ohio to Indiana to receive an abortion after being raped has become a national news after the overturning of Roe v. Wade.

A Brazilian woman who says she became pregnant after being raped in March should have been granted access to a legal abortion.

Anti-abortion laws in Mississippi and Texas contain no exceptions for rape ... Section A, Page 27 of the New York edition with the headline: My Father Raped Me. An Abortion Saved Me.. Order ...