Caroline Kitchener

Washington, D.C.

National reporter covering abortion

Education: Princeton University, BA in History

Caroline Kitchener is a national reporter covering abortion at The Washington Post. She won the 2023 Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting for her coverage of the fall of Roe v. Wade, along with a 2023 duPont-Columbia award. Before joining the national staff, Caroline wrote about women and gender for The Lily. Her nonfiction book, "Post Grad: Five Women and Their First Year Out of College," follows the lives of five women in their first year after their college graduation.
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Latest from Caroline Kitchener

Texas man files legal action to probe ex-partner’s out-of-state abortion

The previously unreported petition reflects a potential new antiabortion strategy to block women from ending their pregnancies in states where abortion is legal.

May 3, 2024
Police watch as antiabortion advocates take part in a demonstration outside the Texas Capitol in Austin on Jan. 27.

Tears and despair at Florida abortion clinic in final hours before ban

A Fort Lauderdale-area clinic saw patients for extended hours — and turned some away — as the state prepared for a six-week abortion ban to take effect May 1.

May 1, 2024
Akayla McBean, Chaun Williams, Carla Ullith, and Yvonne S. look through case files as they get ready to close the clinic for the day.

States where abortion is legal, banned or under threat

More than a dozen states have laws that criminalize abortion when the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade. Here’s a look at abortion laws by state.

May 1, 2024

Florida prepares for one of nation’s strictest abortion bans to take effect

Clinics, patients and abortion rights activists in Florida are bracing for the impact of a six-week abortion ban that will significantly curtail access in the South.

April 30, 2024
Abortion rights advocates hold a rally in downtown Orlando on April 13. (Willie J. Allen Jr./Orlando Sentinel/AP)

Arizona House votes to repeal Civil War-era abortion ban

GOP anxieties about the politics of a near-total abortion ban have led to an unlikely alliance among Democrats, Republicans in swing districts and Trump allies.

April 24, 2024
Arizona House Speaker Ben Toma (R) in Phoenix last week after Republicans blocked the procedural vote to fast-track a repeal of the 1864 abortion ban.

Conservative justices skeptical federal law requires emergency room abortions

The sharply divided court appeared to split largely along ideological lines.

April 24, 2024
Antiabortion and abortion rights advocates protest outside the Supreme Court on Wednesday.

The fate of emergency abortion care rests with Supreme Court

Justices will hear arguments over whether the Biden administration can penalize hospitals that fail to provide emergency abortions.

April 24, 2024
Memorial Regional Hospital in Hollywood, Fla., was told by a federal health agency to take corrective steps after a patient facing serious pregnancy complications was denied an abortion.

Inside the GOP reckoning over Arizona’s 1864 abortion ban

A deeply conflicted state House chamber did not repeal the Civil War-era law on Wednesday, highlighting the indecision of swing-district Republicans.

April 17, 2024
An abortion rights protest in Scottsdale, Ariz., on Sunday.

What to know after taking abortion pills

Information about medication abortions, including what to expect from the process, especially those living in states with abortion bans.

April 11, 2024
A woman who underwent a medication abortion shows the items she received in the mail at her home in Houston.

Alone in a bathroom: The fear and uncertainty of a post-Roe medication abortion

Women who took abortion pills in states where abortion is banned described experiencing deep anxiety and uncertainty about doing something they assumed was illegal.

April 11, 2024
Angel at her home in Oklahoma.