Before the 2024 election, use this guide to understand abortion in all U.S states, including current laws, challenges, exceptions, waiting periods, and more.

Candidates ranging from Donald Trump to House candidates are seeking to soften, or appear to soften, their hardline stances.

Abortion rights groups have outraised opponents by a nearly 8-to-1 margin in campaigns for ballot measures across the U.S. this year.

The Harris campaign is trying to transform women in battleground states into an organizing force who can drive their friends and family to the polls.

Trump campaign political director James Blair told The Post it’s possible those ballot measures “are favorable to Republicans” because voters can use the ballot measure to back abortion rights and then base their decision for president on other factors, in line with Trump’s public claims that he wants to leave abortion up to the states.

In overturning Roe v. Wade, the US Supreme Court didn’t so much settle America’s long-running fight over abortion as push the battle to states. The court’s June 2022 ruling in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization repealed constitutional and thus nationwide protections for abortions that had been in place since 1973.

With polls showing continued support for abortion rights, candidates are scrambling to either take advantage of opponents’ records or moderate their own positions.

Nebraskans will vote on a whopping six ballot measures this fall, including medical marijuana, abortion access, school choice and paid sick leave.

Former first lady Melania Trump unexpectedly entered the national abortion debate, revealing her pro-abortion rights stance in her upcoming memoir, marking the latest shift from Donald Trump 's inner circle on an issue that was key to his 2016 election victory.

The former first lady reportedly defends reproductive rights in her forthcoming memoir. She also posted a video Thursday about "individual freedom" for women.

Melania Trump wrote in her upcoming memoir, “Melania,” that it is “imperative to guarantee that women have autonomy in deciding their preference of having children, based on their own convictions, free from any intervention or pressure from the government.”