After Roe v. Wade was overturned last year, clinic staffers realized students of color could be disproportionately impacted by changes in state abortion laws. Many of them, like Vital, were choosing to go to historically Black colleges and universities in southern states, where bans and limits on the procedure are more common. Read more at … Read more
The nearest abortion clinic – in Chicago – was too far away and too expensive for her mother to provide her with the procedure Read more at The Guardian
“We’re seeing more cases right now (of) people who are later in gestation,” Fowler said. “More adolescents who are later in gestation, who are showing up at hospitals because this is really their last resort. They’ve been referred all over.” Read more at National Public Radio, Inc.
In conservative states, care delays largely stem from the fallout of the Dobbs decision last summer when the supreme court revoked the constitutional right to abortion. Facing possible lawsuits for providing abortion care, OB-GYNs in Texas, Florida, Idaho and elsewhere are choosing to relocate to more liberal states, while medical students are opting for other … Read more
Across Idaho, doctors are leaving, looking for states where politics don’t dictate how they practice medicine. The consequences of Idaho’s anti-choice laws hit Sandpoint fast and hard, hollowing out medical care for women within months. For years, the town had a maternity ward that delivered as many as 350 babies every year – now it … Read more
The new summary sprinkles the anti-abortion phrase “unborn child” throughout, substituting it for “fetus.” It erases all mention of giving people the right to make decisions about their miscarriages, fertility treatments and contraception. Critics have called it “confusing” and “misleading.” Read more at Talking Points Memo
The three-month ban would have put Kennedy — who’s mounting long-shot bid to unseat President Joe Biden as the Democratic standard-bearer — out of step with most of his party. Read more at NBC News
But the others, as anti-abortion as they may be, still don’t represent the tip of the movement’s spear like Pence does. This is the man who, just a year ago, in prepared remarks, said that “our goal should be not just to make abortion illegal, but totally unthinkable for every American citizen,” that “we believe … Read more
Without the specter of Roe v Wade looming overhead, the candidates faced a new litmus test on abortion: whether or not they support a nationwide ban on the procedure after 15 weeks of pregnancy. Read more at The Guardian
“Abortions on demand,” “born alive abortions” and other fact-free claims were on display at the first GOP debate. Read more at HuffPost
