News & Commentary about Reproductive Freedom

The ACLU works to ensure that every person can make the best decision for themselves and their family about whether and when to have a child without undue political interference.

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Oct 18, 2019

Patients’ Needs, Not Personal Beliefs, Come First in Health Care

Oct 17, 2019

Abortion Rights: A Tale of Two States

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Oct 2, 2019

The Making of the Right to Abortion

Oct 2, 2019

How Laws Targeting Clinics Could End Abortion Access

Sep 26, 2019

Kentucky’s Abortion Law Forces Me to Humiliate My Patients

A sign with the text "Clinic Downstairs" outside a Planned Parenthood building

Sep 23, 2019

We’re in Court to Protect Family Planning Care for Millions of Low-Income Patients

Sep 19, 2019

California Is Ready to Ensure Every Public College Student Has Access to Abortion

A doctor showing a patient a syringe used to inject testosterone

Aug 9, 2019

Over 132,400 Opposed Trump’s Anti-Trans Health Care Plan

Jul 12, 2019

Pompeo’s New 'Human Rights' Commission is Up To No Good

Demonstrators carrying signs in favor of stopping the abortion bans

Jun 28, 2019

Georgia Tried to Ban Abortion, So We Sued.