With the Supreme Court poised to overturn Roe v. Wade, the movement against abortion rights nears its apex. But this fight actually began more than a century before Roe was decided. In the early days of the U.S., the legal cutoff for abortion was the moment a pregnant patient could feel the fetus move. But by the early 1900s, every state had made the procedure illegal — with some exceptions. Read our brief history of the anti-abortion movement in America. We also fact-check 7 persistent claims about abortion — and delve into how reversing Roe would affect transgender people, too. Meet Lenny and Moishe, premature twins born in Ukraine to a surrogate mother. To bring the infants to their parents in Poland, rescuers dodged Russian artillery fire and drove through a snowstorm. Then the family found themselves stuck in bureaucratic limbo. NASA is planning its first mission to bring Martian dirt and rocks back to Earth. But before that happens, the agency must figure out how to protect our planet against any alien microbes that could hitch a ride — if such a thing exists on Mars. "It’s a very low probability that there's anything living at the surface," one expert says. "But there is a possibility."
Happy Asian Pacific American Heritage Month! This is a time to celebrate the history, activism and resilience of Asian American communities around the country. But to understand why we celebrate in May, you have to go all the way back to the 1800s — when the first Japanese immigrants arrived in the U.S. and Chinese workers helped complete the country’s first transcontinental railroad. | 
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