Deborah Lauren Handy was sentenced to nearly five years in prison for leading the blockade by directing blockaders to link themselves together with locks and chains to block the clinic’s doors. A nurse sprained her ankle when one person pushed her while she was entering the clinic, and a woman was accosted by another blockader while … Read more
“All across the country, especially here in Mississippi, the vast majority of bills relating to contraception and/or abortion focus on the woman’s role when men are fifty percent of the equation,” he wrote. “This bill highlights that fact and brings the man’s role into the conversation. People can get up in arms and call it … Read more
Bills that redefine abortion as “homicide” strengthen a legal doctrine known as “fetal personhood”, which seeks to grant embryos and fetuses legal rights and protections – sometimes at the expense of the women carrying them. If fully enacted, fetal personhood would not only ban abortion but would rewrite entire arenas of US law, from traffic … Read more
The words “at conception” have set off alarm bells among abortion rights supporters. If fully enacted, fetal personhood would have sweeping repercussions for all US law; not only would it outlaw abortion nationwide, but it could even lead governments to treat abortion as murder and treat people who undergo the procedure as murderers. “I don’t … Read more
Yet the announcements also come amid mounting frustration from the anti-abortion movement that not one of the avalanche of executive orders Trump signed over his first few days in office has pertained directly to abortion. While abortion opponents have praised some of the early orders — such as the withdrawal from the World Health Organization … Read more
In addition to shutting down other official White House websites — like the Spanish-language White House platforms and an official White House webpage for the Constitution, as reported out by Gizmodo — the government website ReproductiveRights.gov is now a broken link, reportedly taken offline just hours after Trump assumed office. The Wayback Machine shows the … Read more
The legislation would “prohibit a health care practitioner from failing to exercise the proper degree of care in the case of a child who survives an abortion or attempted abortion.” Read more at Politico
Get ready for Trump’s executive order onslaught International abortion rights advocates worry that Trump will further extend the so-called global gag rule to organizations receiving any type of U.S. foreign assistance, including humanitarian aid, as the Heritage Foundation recommended in its Project 2025 blueprint for a second Trump term. Project 2025 also recommended the policy … Read more
Texas judge says states can revive challenge to abortion pill access nationwide The American Civil Liberties Union said the case should have been settled when the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously preserved access to mifepristone. Kacsmaryk’s decision “has left the door open for extremist politicians to continue attacking medication abortion in his courtroom,” the ACLU said. … Read more
Abortion Pregnant patients’ ability to access abortions will depend even more on their zip code in 2025. The chasm between blue states with expanded abortion access and red states with restrictions is expected to grow even deeper, especially if Trump abides by his campaign promise not to pursue a national abortion ban. Read more at … Read more
