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Meeting in Congress at Versailles on 4 March 2024, France's deputies and senators voted 780 to 72 to add women's guaranteed freedom to have an abortion to the Constitution, the first country to do so.

A unanimous Supreme Court threw out anti-abortion doctors' challenge to the FDA's rules for the abortion pill mifepristone, holding they had no standing to sue, so mail and telehealth access stayed in place.

Missouri voters approved Amendment 3 by 1,538,659 votes to 1,443,022, writing a right to reproductive freedom, including abortion up to fetal viability, into the state constitution and overturning the state's near-total ban.

Nevadans approved Question 6 with 64.36% of the vote, the first of two votes needed to write a right to abortion until fetal viability into the state constitution.

The House of Commons voted 379 to 137 on 17 June 2025 for Tonia Antoniazzi's amendment to the Crime and Policing Bill, taking women out of the criminal law on abortion for ending their own pregnancies.

The FDA approved Evita Solutions' 200 mg mifepristone tablets as the second generic of the abortion pill, less than two weeks after HHS promised a safety review of the drug.

Texas's Woman and Child Protection Act takes effect, letting private citizens sue anyone who makes, mails or provides abortion pills into Texas for at least $100,000 per violation, while barring suits against the woman.

The Crime and Policing Act 2026 received Royal Assent on 29 April 2026, and its section 241 took effect at once: no woman commits an offence under abortion law by acting in relation to her own pregnancy.

A Fifth Circuit panel granted Louisiana a stay of the FDA's 2023 mifepristone rules, ending telehealth prescribing and mail or pharmacy dispensing of the abortion pill nationwide until the Supreme Court stepped in.

Virginians decide whether to add a fundamental right to reproductive freedom, covering abortion, contraception, miscarriage and fertility care, to the state constitution's Bill of Rights.

Nevadans vote a second time on Question 6; if it passes again, a right to abortion until fetal viability joins the state constitution.

Missouri voters decide whether to repeal the abortion-rights amendment they passed in 2024 and allow abortion only in emergencies, for fetal anomalies, or for rape and incest before 12 weeks.

Idaho voters decide on Proposition 1, a citizen initiative that would replace one of the strictest abortion bans in the country with a right to abortion until fetal viability.