The Justice Department’s new $1.8 billion “anti-weaponization” fund — created by a legal settlement between President Donald Trump and his own administration — could funnel money to activists who broke into and blocked patients from entering abortion clinics. Read more at Politico
Across the country, abortion bans appear to have made it harder for people experiencing miscarriages to receive appropriate treatment — or even receive treatment at all — a new study suggests. Read more at 19th News
An advocacy organization representing US veterans has filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration over the reinstatement of a ban on abortion services and counseling for veterans and their dependents facing certain pregnancy-related dangers and circumstances. Read more at The Guardian
Abortion providers and advocates are making plans for future disruptions to reproductive care after the US supreme court temporarily continued nationwide access to mail-order mifepristone on Thursday while several legal challenges wind their way through the lower courts. Read more at The Guardian
From 2022 to 2024, at least 192 people in Alabama were charged with pregnancy-related crimes, according to a report from Pregnancy Justice. Such arrests, according to Pregnancy Justice, are tied to the concept of fetal personhood, which extends legal rights to fetuses and embryos. The mishandling of pregnancies behind bars is a widespread problem, with … Read more
Last week, as they awaited word from the high court about the fate of telehealth abortions, anti-abortion activists secured a closed-door meeting with Justice Department officials. There, they pushed the agency to revive a long dormant policy that could cut off virtually all access to both mifepristone and misoprostol — an 1800s-era anti-vice law known … Read more
Reading the “Sex” issue leaves the strong impression that this is part of a larger agenda to lure gullible readers into unintended pregnancy. Read more at Salon
“The messaging is definitely propaganda,” said Ronnee Schreiber, a political professor at San Diego State University, “because the messaging is tied to Trump and his political goals.” And pregnancies, Schreiber said, offer these women an “edge”, signaling embodiment of the right’s pronatalist pressure campaign in a way that other acolytes just can’t pull off. Birthrates … Read more
The state argued it has a legal right to sue because, among other reasons, the FDA’s policy allowing medication abortion to be sent through the mail impinges on the state’s “sovereignty.” The hypocrisy is thick, Flaxman says, since the lower court’s decision didn’t just end the mailing of mifepristone to residents of Louisiana, but to … Read more
Although untouched by the Fifth Circuit’s ruling, misoprostol is not necessarily immune to legal attacks. Louisiana’s lawsuit and parallel suits filed by Florida and Missouri argue that the Comstock Act—a dormant, 19th-century anti-obscenity statute that anti-abortion legal strategists have spent years working to resurrect—bars the mailing of any drug used to induce abortion. This reading … Read more
