abortion regulations

Congressional hopefuls Shomari Figures and Caroleene Dobson clashed in a Wednesday debate. The two candidates running for Alabama’s 2nd Congressional District met in a candidate forum in Montgomery.

A study has found that the number of women charged with crimes related to their pregnancies jumped in the year after the U.S. Supreme Court ruling that cleared the way for abortion bans across the country. Most of the cases identified were in just two states: Alabama and Oklahoma.

The U.S. Supreme Court is ruling to uphold access to one of two pills used in medication abortion. Meantime, the first over the counter birth control pill is still on the shelves in Alabama, but abortion rights supporters caution of a possible federal contraceptive ban.

A recent Alabama Supreme Court ruling that frozen embryos are legally protected children is highlighting how support for the idea that a fetus should have the same rights as a person underpins far less dramatic laws and proposals from abortion foes across the U.S.

The Alabama Supreme Court has ruled that frozen embryos created during fertility treatments should be considered children under state law.

Three of Alabama's five abortion clinics remain open after complying with a new state law that sets stricter building requirements.The law was passed by…