Last week, Pennsylvania’s Commonwealth Court ruled that the state constitution guarantees a right to abortion, striking down a 1982 law that had banned Medicaid funding for the procedure. The decision landed like a grenade in an already fractured national conversation. One side celebrated. The other mourned. The news cycle moved on. But buried inside the…
On April 16, 2026, something remarkable happened in the South Carolina House of Representatives. Lawmakers voted 95 to 0 to pass the Pregnancy Resource Tax Credit Bill (S. 32), offering state tax credits to individuals and businesses that donate to pregnancy resource centers, adoption agencies, and maternity homes. The Senate had already passed it unanimously….
On April 20, Pennsylvania’s Commonwealth Court struck down the state’s four-decade ban on Medicaid-funded abortion, ruling it unconstitutional under the state’s Equal Rights Amendment and equal protection provisions. The decision in Allegheny Reproductive Health Center v. Pennsylvania Department of Human Services is historic — the first state court to affirm both a fundamental right to…
The Guttmacher Institute just released its full-year 2025 abortion data, and the headline sounds like progress: cross-state travel for abortion is declining. Down from a peak of 170,000 in 2023 to 142,000 in 2025. Travel from total-ban states dropped from 74,000 to 62,000. If you’re someone who tracks these numbers—and I am—the natural reaction is:…