Deborah But with negotiations for the 2024 budget underway in Congress, the policy and the access it codifies are under attack. In June, Republicans on the House Appropriations Committee advanced a budget that prohibited abortion care (and gender affirming care and the pride flag) at VA facilities. The committee’s counterpart in the Senate passed its own … Read more
Poor families are more likely to be separated by the government. The Dobbs decision will make it worse. Read more at Vox
A year after the Supreme Court ended the federal constitutional right to abortion, individual states continue to grapple with ways to restrict abortion access, do away with it altogether — or in some cases, enshrine its protection in their own state constitutions. Read more at Vox
In Texas, doctors are “speaking in code” to their patients about leaving the state for abortions – frightened not just out of performing the procedures, but out of giving true, medically useful information about them. The extremism of the anti-abortion movement has not just eliminated women’s freedom of choice; it is increasingly curtailing their freedom … Read more
Iowa’s state legislature held a special session on Tuesday ahead of voting on a bill the same day that would ban most abortions at around six weeks of pregnancy, when most people don’t yet know they are pregnant. The state is the latest in the country to vote on legislation restricting reproductive rights after the … Read more
To put a stop to this, Pavone — a controversial figure who leads the Florida-based Priests for Life — wants Congress to pass a federal ban. But he’s concerned that even the anti-abortion lawmakers in Congress appear reluctant to act. He suspects they are afraid of such a polarizing issue, so they are letting states … Read more
Democratic leaders say they will act as a “firewall” on reproductive rights even during looming negotiations to fund the government. Read more at 19th News
“People who are denied a needed abortion experience a range of negative impacts on their physical and mental health,” she said. “It’s hard to imagine the short- and long-term implications of a personal trajectory that may have been rerouted for the 9,799 people who were denied an abortion under SB8.” Read more at CNN
Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (Ky.) says abortion policy should be left to the states and that Congress shouldn’t have a role to play since it’s highly unlikely any federal abortion ban could muster 60 votes to pass the Senate. But Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), the ranking member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, rejects McConnell’s … Read more
“This lack of action disregards the will of Iowa voters and lawmakers who will not rest until the unborn are protected by law,” she said, using anti-abortion rhetoric. Per a Des Moines Register poll published earlier this year, 61 percent of Iowans think abortion should be legal in all or most cases, compared to the … Read more
