Action sent a letter Friday to GOP officials urging them to question President-elect Donald Trump’s nominees about their stance on late-term abortion and to investigate the safety of the abortion pill.

Three states filed a lengthy complaint Thursday in Amarillo federal court reviving the dormant lawsuit challenging looser restrictions on the use of an abortion drug.

The Republican-led states of Idaho, Missouri and Kansas can proceed with a lawsuit seeking to restrict the availability of the abortion pill mifepristone

and directed his Department of Justice to challenge guidance from the Food and Drug Administration that expanded availability of medication abortion drug mifepristone. They have also pushed for ...

Washington State’s program is the first, but other states are expected to try allowing pharmacists to prescribe the pills to counter growing efforts to curtail abortion access.

Abortions done via medication, also called chemical abortions, currently account for about half of the abortions that are done in the United States every year.

Statesman columnist Bridget Grumet speaks about her trip to Delaware to investigate the access Texas women have to abortion by mail.

A federal judge in Texas is allowing three other states to pursue a challenge seeking to restrict access to the abortion pill mifepristone nationwide.