Kentucky Supreme Court declines to block abortion ban
The Kentucky Supreme Court on Thursday declined to block the state’s near-total abortion ban while it reviews legal challenges to the law. Read more at The Hill
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Judge reinstates North Carolina’s 20-week abortion ban
Abortions in North Carolina are no longer legal after 20 weeks of pregnancy, a federal judge ruled Wednesday, eroding protections in one of the South’s few remaining safe havens for reproductive freedom. Read more at The Hill
South Carolina – near total ban advances, 6 week ban temporarily blocked by court
Near-total abortion ban advances in South Carolina The bill, which was advanced out of the Republican-controlled state House Judiciary Committee, would prohibit abortions in the state with exceptions in cases where the life or health of the mother is at risk. Five committee members did not cast a vote. Read more at The Hill Abortion … Read more
Old Michigan law banning abortion and the injunction against it
Abortion Is Legal in This State. That’s Not Stopping These Rogue Prosecutors Abortion rights have been protected in Michigan at the state level since April, when a lawsuit from Planned Parenthood, anticipating the fall of Roe, stalled enforcement of a 1931 state law that banned the practice. The three locations of Northland Family Planning Center, … Read more
Does your rewards card know if you’re pregnant? Privacy experts sound the alarm
In most cases, signing up for a rewards program means you are agreeing to your data being collected and utilized in this manner, Solow-Niederman said, but she argued that another issue lay in the expectation for consumers to have the capacity to navigate this type of legal language on their own, a concern that scholars … Read more
Boats, planes and automobiles: Projects aim to travel around restrictive state abortion laws
In Colorado, abortion medication comes from a van parked near the state border. In Illinois, an organization is recruiting pilots to fly patients out of restrictive states. And in the Gulf of Mexico, an OB-GYN envisions a clinic at sea. These headline-grabbing projects for abortion access are among the more audacious ways abortion-rights supporters are … Read more
Abortion is legal in Illinois. In Wisconsin, it’s nearly banned. So clinics teamed up
After Roe was struck down, Planned Parenthood organizations in both states announced their partnership. More than a dozen employees from Wisconsin – including doctors, nurses and medical assistants – now commute to Waukegan to help provide care. “It really required this perfect pairing of supply and demand,” said Kristen Schultz, Planned Parenthood of Illinois’ chief … Read more
From down the street to 1,000 miles, abortion clinics are moving to protect access
A federal appeals court allowed Tennessee’s six-week abortion ban to take effect, and a near-total ban is set to begin in late August. Meanwhile, Virginia still allows most abortions through the second trimester. … “It’s like a game of dominoes. It’s just a huge swath of states not offering the service any longer,” Derzis said. … Read more
Texas lawmakers test how far their threats against abortions can reach
Republican lawmakers have sent legal threats to Texas organizations that offer to fund out-of-state travel for abortions, potentially setting up a showdown between abortion law and long-held constitutional rights such as freedom of association and freedom of travel. Read more at The Guardian
Their mentor was attacked. Now young OB-GYNs may leave Indiana
Still, the OB-GYN program in Indiana has been able to provide residents with comprehensive training, which includes abortion care and family planning. This is important for more than for abortion cases. “Miscarriages are managed the exact same way as first-trimester termination procedures,” Scott said. “But what termination procedures allow you to do is that kind … Read more