Deborah The Iowa Attorney General’s Office has paused its practice of paying for emergency contraception — and in rare cases, abortions — for victims of sexual assault, a move that drew criticism from some victim advocates. Read more at AP via Huffpost
“When a clinic closes, the protesters don’t just pack up and go home,” Fowler said. “A lot of times, they will travel or even move to other communities and states and target the clinics that remain open there.” Read more at National Public Radio, Inc.
A GOP win in the state Senate’s 8th District gave the party a supermajority — with the power to pursue impeachment of newly elected liberal Janet Protasiewicz. Read more at NBC News
Hours after the vote in Wisconsin, Idaho’s Republican governor, Brad Little signed legislation prohibiting traveling with a minor out of state for an abortion without parental consent. That same day, a Democratic lawmaker in North Carolina announced she was switching parties, giving Republicans a veto-proof majority and raising the prospect of further abortion restrictions in … Read more
Her name was Halo, and she was born last week, on March 29, two months early and weighing 3 pounds. She lived for four hours, dying in the arms of her father, Luis Villasana. Her mother, Samantha Casiano, knew their baby wouldn’t survive long because she had anencephaly – part of Halo’s brain and skull … Read more
Opinion: Idaho’s new abortion law is first to challenge the right to travel If Idaho’s experiment is a success, other threats to the right to travel will be coming. For now, Idaho is targeting people within the state who are directing minors on how to obtain pills or procedures out of state, but other proposals … Read more
Florida Republicans will likely hand $25 million to anti-abortion pregnancy centers in the coming days ― and the GOP-controlled state Senate just killed a measure that would have ensured state oversight of those centers. Read more at Huffpost
After a string of recent ballot-box victories for abortion rights groups, opponents of the procedure are redoubling their efforts – including, in some places, pushing to make it harder to use citizen-approved ballot measures to guarantee abortion access. Read more at CNN
Florida moved one step closer to a six-week abortion ban that would severely curtail abortion access in the state and the region, advancing a bill that abortion rights supporters say is in many ways more restrictive than bans in Texas and elsewhere. Read more at The 19th
The legislation faces an uncertain fate in a legal and political climate that’s made Kansas an outlier on abortion policy among states with GOP-led legislatures. The bill applies not only to “botched” or “unsuccessful” abortions but also when doctors induce labor to deliver a fetus that is expected to die within minutes or even seconds … Read more
