WASHINGTON — As conservative states enacted stringent abortion bans in recent decades, there was one threshold they were loath to cross: Abortion was nearly always allowed in cases of rape or incest.

Most of the state abortion prohibitions that would go into effect if Roe v. Wade is overturned do not contain carve-outs that were once widely supported by abortion opponents. By Jan Hoffman In the ...

Amid all the attention paid to the legal drama surrounding both Mississippi’s and Texas’s contested abortion laws, one striking detail seems to have escaped much notice: Neither state makes an ...

Republicans are abandoning language that has long been standard in abortion bans. Why? By Mary Ziegler Ms. Ziegler is a law professor. All of a sudden, abortion opponents have abandoned rape and ...