3+ hour, 6+ min ago   (479+ words) A woman in India estimates she has dozens of biological children, and she says there are many more women like her because India has a thriving black market for human eggs. NPR's Diaa Hadid and producer Shweta Desai investigated the…...

5+ day, 20+ hour ago   (129+ words) On Friday, the Trump administration is expected to announce an expansion of the Mexico City policy that restricts federal health aid dollars from funding abortion-related services. The new policy will apply to all foreign assistance, not just health aid, and…...

5+ day, 20+ hour ago   (1077+ words) A 19-year-old woman talks with nurse Valeria Zafisoa at a traveling contraception clinic in eastern Madagascar run by the British nonprofit group MSI Reproductive Choices. That group lost $15 million in funding the last time Trump enforced the Mexico City policy....

2+ week, 1+ day ago   (1009+ words) Over the past several decades, a hopeful story has played out across southern Uganda. The number of children who've lost a parent has plummeted, from nearly one in four in the early 2000s to just 6% in 2022." New research suggests the decline…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago   (801+ words) Bethany Kozma speaks to a U.N. meeting in September 2025. She has just been named to lead the Department of Health and Human Services Office of Global Affairs " a job known as the "diplomatic voice" of HHS. United Nations hide caption America's…...

2+ mon, 1+ week ago   (308+ words) Pope Leo XIV presides over a Mass in St. Peter's Square. Gregorio Borgia/AP hide caption Pope Leo XIV said he is troubled by the violent and at times "extremely disrespectful" ways migrants have been treated in the United States....

4+ mon, 1+ week ago   (71+ words) A working paper from the National Bureau of Economic Research finds property crime went up in Texas after a 2013 law closed half the state's clinics that provide abortion. 'Natural experiment' in Texas shows property crime went up when abortion access…...

4+ mon, 2+ week ago   (300+ words) Today's episode features two books that dissect very different case studies in politics: Kamala Harris' presidential campaign and the anti-abortion movement. First, in July 2024, Harris' presidential campaign launched like a rocket " but it seemed to stall shortly after. 2024 goes behind…...

7+ mon, 11+ hour ago   (1067+ words) NPR's Ayesha Rascoe speaks to reporters Marta Martinez and Victoria Estrada about their series "The Network," which looks at the origin of Misoprostol, the pill used to induce abortions. This month marked three years since the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe…...

7+ mon, 5+ day ago   (62+ words) Doctors have become increasingly supportive of self-managed abortion with pills, an abortion method that's become'more common'since the Supreme Court overturned'Roe v. Wade. NPR's 'Embedded': Why doctors think women can have safe abortions without their help Doctors have become increasingly supportive of…...