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In 2018, Mississippi passed the Gestational Age Act, limiting elective abortion to 15 weeks. Mississippi’s 15-week law was invalidated by the lower federal courts and will be considered by the United States Supreme Court during their next term, which begins in October…

In all, 48 reporting areas (46 states, New York City, and the District of Columbia) make abortion data publicly available. Of these, 46 report the gestational ages at which abortions are performed, and 43 report gestational age with enough granularity to allow…

Tara Sander Lee, Ph.D., is a Molecular and Cell Biologist with over 15 years of experience in academic research and healthcare. She obtained her Ph.D. in biochemistry from the Medical College of Wisconsin, followed by research fellowship training in cell and molecular…

Despite advances in civil rights and the recognition by most developed nations that discrimination on the basis of sex alone is inherently unjust, a very real and pervasive form of sex discrimination is still permitted and practiced in the world today. Prenatal…

Many American women feel uninformed about the abortion pills’ potential complications, according to a new Charlotte Lozier Institute study.

Today, the Supreme Court temporarily blocked the 5th U.S. Circuit Court ruling that paused the nationwide remote shipment of abortion drugs, mifepristone and misoprostol, in Louisiana v. FDA.

On April 24, 2026, CLI submitted a public comment in response to the NIH's request for information on reducing reliance on human embryonic stem cells in NIH-supported research. Here, CLI's comment is reproduced in full.

For the second year, Kansas’ abortion data was included in the state’s vital statistics report published in December by the Kansas Department of Health and Environment (KDHE), instead of being published as a standalone report published in July. The report shows that…

In 2024, only two abortions at brick-and-mortar facilities in Idaho were reported to the state’s Department of Health & Welfare, both of which were drug-induced. The data published by the state does not include the total number of abortions obtained by Idaho…

Prenatal tax credits and child support for the unborn have a firm foundation in common law, as well as statutory and judicial precedent. Prenatal tax credits at the federal, state, and local levels hold out the promise of potentially enhanced birth weights…

This primer lays out the science behind Abortion Pill Reversal by examining the function of progesterone as a naturally occurring hormone in the female reproductive system, the functions of mifepristone and misoprostol as drugs used in drug-induced abortion, the basic biochemical principle…

This paper evaluates each state’s abortion reporting requirements and publicly accessible abortion reports (or lack thereof). It is an update to CLI’s 2016 survey of abortion reporting across the country, and analyzes state-wide, regional, and national trends that could inform public health…