A judge blocked enforcement of a 1931 Michigan ban on abortion Monday, just hours after the state Court of Appeals said county prosecutors were not covered by a May order and could enforce the prohibition following the fall of Roe v. Wade. Read more at NBC news The older article — Michigan Appeals Court Says … Read more
“Dobbs doesn’t just drop into a vacuum,” said Polly Crozier, a senior staff attorney at GLBTQ Legal Advocates and Defenders, or GLAD. “Already we have seen attacks on LGBTQ families, because there have been cases in the past few years attacking nonbiological parents. We will probably see more challenges to the marital presumption of parentage … Read more
The ruling by a state appeals court judge temporarily lifted a lower court order that had blocked Kentucky’s law, which bans abortion with exceptions only to protect the life or health of the mother, but not for rape or incest. Read more at The Hill
Sussman says the door swings both ways. “I anticipate that prosecutors will sweep in anyone who is experiencing a pregnancy loss that they deem ‘suspicious,’” Sussman says. Suspicious. That was the rationale used to target the women treated at the Medical University of South Carolina in 1989. Black women are twice as likely to have … Read more
“When the decision fell, that was like a loudspeaker,” Cardona said. She said previously five to seven women from the U.S. were reaching out to her clinic for help per week, but now that number has shot up to 70 to 100 a week. “You have to see the fear this has generated in the … Read more
Indiana becomes 1st state to approve abortion ban post Roe Indiana on Friday became the first state in the nation to approve abortion restrictions since the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, as the Republican governor quickly signed a near-total ban on the procedure shortly after lawmakers approved it. Read more at The Hill … Read more
In a sudden obstetrical emergency, a termination might be the least risky option, clinically. But now “your medical provider says that it’s illegal and they can’t provide it. And not only can they not provide it, but they can’t talk to you about it,” Cavazos says. “It might even be scary for you to reach … Read more
The dystopian American reality one month after the Roe v Wade reversal Bans at six weeks gestation or earlier, before most women know they are pregnant, are in force in 12 states as of Thursday. The bans have forced patients seeking abortions, and who have the time and money, to travel hundreds of miles from … Read more
Indiana investigates abortion doctor who treated 10-year-old rape victim According to Kathleen DeLaney, a lawyer acting for the doctor, Caitlin Bernard, a notice from the Indiana attorney general, Todd Rokita, regarding his investigation arrived on Tuesday. “We are in the process of reviewing this information. It’s unclear to us what is the nature of the … Read more
A handful of state abortion bans define life as beginning at fertilization, though they don’t specifically target the process of IVF. Other states are attempting to pass legislation that would grant embryos, fetuses and fertilized eggs personhood rights and in some cases constitutional rights. Such laws would “pose a concrete threat to the routine practice … Read more
