Author: Christine Fernando, USA TODAY

When 12 Black women gathered in a Chicago hotel room in 1994, the debate on abortion access in the US was changed forever.

Unlike the more mainstream phrase “reproductive rights,” reproductive justice uses a human rights lens to go beyond abortion rights.

The reproductive justice framework was created by Black women in response to an abortion rights movement that centered the needs of white women.

Three crew members – a conductor, an engineer and an engineer trainee – are being treated for non-life threatening injuries, authorities said.

South Carolina is one of two states in the country that criminalizes self-managed abortions, experts told USA TODAY. The other state is Nevada.

A group of 20 Republican attorneys general warned CVS and Walgreens in a letter last month not to sell abortion pills in their states.

Fertility doctors say they’ve gotten waves of calls from patients wanting to move embryos as some abortion laws threaten IVF access.

Majorities of Americans in 43 states say abortion should be legal in most or all cases, according to a Public Religion Research Institute survey.

Nasir Hall, 19, William Smith, 13, and A-mara Hall, 1, died in the shooting, according to the Cook County Medical Examiner’s Office.