Deborah Greg Abbott, the Republican governor of Texas, on Wednesday signed into law a bill that lets people sue anyone suspected of manufacturing, distributing or mailing abortion pills to or from Texas. The first-of-its-kind law is almost certain to dramatically escalate the state-by-state showdown over abortion laws in the post Roe v Wade United States – … Read more
Clinics are still assessing how the loss of federal funds could affect what services they can afford to provide, and whether some will eventually be forced to close their doors. Already, a number of health centers in Ohio, California, Indiana and Vermont have shuttered, citing financial pressures that include the loss of Medicaid funding. Read more at … Read more
The two professional organizations have recently clashed. The American Society for Reproductive Medicine has repeatedly challenged the legitimacy of restorative reproductive medicine, while the International Institute for Restorative Reproductive Medicine has said patients deserve an alternative to IVF. The back-and-forth comes amid growing nationwide skepticism toward pharmaceutical-led medicine and a push among Christian conservatives to … Read more
Anti-abortion groups have been making the rounds to congressional offices in recent weeks to make the case that the enhanced credits subsidize elective abortion — in breach of long-standing restrictions enacted by Congress, under the so-called Hyde Amendment, that prohibit federal funds to be used for the procedure with few exceptions. Read more at Politico … Read more
Ultimately, Hamad believes the attacks on Prams will lead to higher maternal and infant mortality and morbidity. “We don’t have ways to track the risk factors and we can’t study the policies to fix the problems,” she said. “It’s really gonna be a catastrophe moving forward.” Read more at The Guardian
Researchers found a “strikingly large” relationship between restrictions on abortion and property crime, underscoring the connection between abortion bans and poverty. Read more at 19th News
Just like the right to a legal abortion, they’ll chip away at it gradually with bills that disenfranchise the “wrong” sort of people and mechanisms that make voting more difficult. But we should not mistake their ultimate objective. Musk, Thiel and Hegseth are some of the most powerful people in the world: when they, along … Read more
Millions of dollars worth of birth control pills, IUDs, and more products had been designated for low-income countries by the now-dismantled USAID Read more at Rolling Stone
State treasurer Stacy Garrity abortion-proofs her campaign, even if it poses risks in a potential primary. Read more at Politico
A judge previously ruled Planned Parenthood clinics across the U.S. must continue to be reimbursed for Medicaid funding as the organization fights the Trump administration’s efforts to defund it. Read more at NBC News
