Nina Martin

Two potentially sweeping Supreme Court cases set the stage for a seismic shift in the battle over abortion and contraception.

Shootings like the one at a Colorado clinic are rare. Stalking, hate mail, and intimidating protests are the daily reality.

After a woman is jailed for exposing her fetus to drugs, county officials refuse to release her for an abortion and ask a judge to strip her of parental rights.

For more than 30 years, the Federalist Society has worked behind the scenes to shape Supreme Court outcomes to a conservative agenda. In King v. Burwell, its influence could eliminate health insurance subsidies for millions of people.

Changes for abortion, contraception, and more top the agenda with Republicans in the majority in Congress and many state legislatures.

A toughening of Catholic medical directives could include enforcing a ban on tubal ligations.

Here’s some preparatory reading for the latest gender rights fight, Peggy Young v. United Parcel Service.

With Catholic health systems expanding, stricter rules could have implications for reproductive and maternity care across the country.

Money and strategists are shaping a nationally watched campaign amid talk of in vitro fertilization and end-of-life care.

A reading list on the Hobby Lobby cases.

Rennie Gibbs, a 16-year-old in Mississippi when she gave birth to a stillborn child, is facing life in prison for taking cocaine during her pregnancy. Hers is among a burgeoning number of cases in which women are prosecuted for allegedly endangering their unborn children.

Nina Martin talks with a leading expert on the historic tension between civil rights and religious freedom.

As the long, angry fight over abortion roars on, Tracy Weitz, a researcher in California, has quietly worked to gather reliable facts about the procedure and the women who choose to have it.

A new report details the rapid growth of Catholic health care networks, and the questions and concerns that have attended it.

The ACLU has filed a complaint in Colorado asserting a doctor was disciplined by a Catholic hospital simply for talking about an abortion.

In Washington state, where alliances and mergers between hospitals are taking place at a rapid clip, many are bracing for limits on care, and calling for public debate.

One transgender woman’s effort to get a mammogram highlights larger confusion over care.

Two years after the Supreme Court decision tossing a sex discrimination case against the giant retailer, lawyers for women and minorities are navigating an altered legal landscape.

A state law could soon be signed to allow non-doctors to perform some abortions.