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This State and Federal Reproductive Rights Litigation tracker aggregates information about ongoing litigation regarding abortion bans and restrictions, FDA approval of Mifepristone (an abortion pill) and other federal regulations.
This brief presents findings from KFF's 2026 Women's Health Survey and offers an early look at how the information that women encounter online through social media translates into real-world decision about their contraceptive care. It also looks at exposure to false or misleading claims women encounter about contraception.
This data note presents key data points describing the current state of the Medicaid program as it affects women.
Considering the existing challenges to hospital-based maternity care in rural areas and the potential for it to worsen, this data note analyzes the availability of hospitals providing inpatient maternity care in rural areas for Medicaid enrollees and illustrates how access to these services could be affected if additional rural hospitals were to close or eliminate those services.
This KFF analysis examines physician fee schedules for medication abortion and abortion procedures to see what states that use their own state funds to pay for abortion services are reimbursing for providing abortion services to Medicaid enrollees.
Fact sheet examining actions taken by the Trump administration and their impact on global family planning and reproductive health efforts.
Amid an ongoing FDA re-review of mifepristone, awareness of the safety and prevalence of the abortion pill remains limited. This KFF poll also finds that the voters who say abortion policy is an important issue for 2026 midterm candidates to discuss are disproportionately Democrats.
The interactive map shows the increase in states with laws restricting abortion coverage in Medicaid and private insurance in 2010 compared to the present.
The contraceptive implant is the most effective method of birth control available, and while it’s use is still low compared to other methods, its provision and use are increasing.
“[Indiana, Oklahoma, and Nebraska] are the only states that took additional state-level action to exclude Planned Parenthood from Medicaid during the year the federal ban has been in effect. With the expiration of the national ban on Planned Parenthood Medicaid reimbursement and the Medina decision clearing the way for states to exclude Planned Parenthood from Medicaid, other states may follow suit.”
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