Louisiana’s last three abortion clinics will relocate to other states, staff confirmed, after a Louisiana Supreme Court ruling Friday allowed the state’s near-total abortion ban to remain in effect. Read more at WWNO – New Orleans Public Radio
The U.S. saw a massive 20-fold increase in telemedicine use during the COVID-19 pandemic, so more people are becoming familiar with its ins and outs. Telemedicine is also a safe way to prescribe medical abortion drugs to low-risk patients and can reduce back-and-forth travel to clinics for pre- or post-procedure appointments. But telemedicine isn’t without shortcomings — and there are several that abortion providers should … Read more
“We have the training to know what’s right for our patients and want to have the ability to do that without having to fear criminal liability or being caught between, if we do one thing we’re violating state law, if we do another thing, we’re violating federal law,” Haddock said. Read more at The Hill … Read more
But abortion rights advocates and experts told ABC News it’s more complicated than that. They say that while such exceptions do help prevent a pregnant person from living through the trauma of giving birth to their rapist’s baby, they say the exceptions may work in theory but not in reality. Read more at ABC News … Read more
Florida court rules parentless 16-year-old did not present ‘clear’ evidence she is mature enough to get an abortion Her petition to be granted an exception to the law states that she is not ready to have a baby, does not have a job and is “still in school” and her father is unable to assist … Read more
The data paints a grim picture for many families: Mothers and children in states with the toughest abortion restrictions tend to have less access to health care and financial assistance, as well as worse health outcomes. Read more at National Public Radio, Inc.
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
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
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
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
