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New Senate Report Spotlights ‘Barbaric Consequences’ of GOP Abortion Bans

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Warren’s communications with healthcare workers provided five key findings about state-imposed abortion bans and restrictions, according to the report. Such policies: Affect all women seeking reproductive healthcare, even in states where abortion remains legal; Have created mortal threats to women suffering from miscarriages, ectopic pregnancies, and other complications; Threaten healthcare providers and interfere with the … Read more

Missouri Woman Denied Emergency Abortion Called a State Senator for Help. He Sent Her to an Anti-Abortion Clinic.Mis

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The office of her state senator, a Republican named Bill White, told her the state ban that was literally jeopardizing her life was actually “designed to protect the woman’s life.” Farmer recalled telling White’s aide, “It’s not protecting me.… There’s no chance for a baby; she’s not going to make it. It’s putting my life … Read more

Beauty YouTuber Forced to Carry Dead Fetus for 2 Weeks After Miscarriage Due to Abortion Ban

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“The doctor said, ‘Because of the new law that’s passed here, you have to schedule another ultrasound to verify that this pregnancy is not valid before we can give you any sort of medical intervention,’ Stell told her social media followers. Dr. Lillian Schapiro, an Atlanta-based OB-GYN, told CNN that carrying a dead fetus can … Read more

Texas Woman Nearly Loses Her Life After Doctors Can’t Legally Perform an Abortion: ‘Their Hands Were Tied’

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“It took three days at home until I became sick ‘enough’ that the ethics board at our hospital agreed we could begin medical treatment; three days until my life was considered at risk ‘enough’ for the inevitable premature delivery of my daughter to be performed; three days until the doctors, nurses, and other healthcare professionals … Read more

A Tennessee Woman Had to Take a 6-Hour Ambulance Ride to Get an Abortion

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The woman’s doctor in Tennessee, Leilah Zahedi-Spung, is a high-risk obstetrician who spoke to the WSJ for a story about how abortion bans impact medical emergencies. Zahedi-Spung said the patient was in her second trimester when her blood pressure began rising; the fetus had been diagnosed with genetic abnormalities and wasn’t expected to survive. Zahedi-Spung … Read more

State abortion bans are preventing cancer patients from getting chemotherapy

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A six-week abortion ban in Ohio has forced people with cancer to travel out of state for abortions that are necessary to continue with life-saving treatment, according to affidavits submitted by abortion providers in the state. In at least two cases, cancer patients have been blocked from receiving treatment until their pregnancies were terminated — … Read more

Georgia Says A Fetus Is A Person. The Implications Are Terrifying.

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While several states have even more extreme abortion restrictions, including banning abortion from the point of conception, Georgia’s includes a uniquely terrifying clause: It recognizes an embryo or fetus as a person after six weeks of pregnancy. * The termination, or suspected termination, of a pregnancy after the six-week point could be considered murder under … Read more

Abortion bans create ‘insurmountable barriers’ for incarcerated women in US

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Conditions for reproductive healthcare in many US prison facilities are already often abysmal. With many pregnant inmates regularly facing dire circumstances including being denied abortions or being forced to give birth while shackled, experts warn that the overturn of Roe v Wade will now result in even more severe consequences for an already marginalized community. … Read more

The doctors leaving anti-abortion states: ‘I couldn’t do my job at all’

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Doctors are on the frontlines of this chaotic landscape, fearful of running afoul of ever-changing law, in some cases struggling to provide life-saving care. In most cases, doctors have stayed in abortion-restrictive states, because despite restrictions on their medical practice, they have ties to their patients, their communities, their families. But others have decided to … Read more