Why speech could be a target for the anti-abortion movement in 2025
The anti-abortion movement is looking at ways to control information about how and where to obtain abortions Read more at The Guardian
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How the abortion rights landscape changed in 2024
As I’ve reported for Salon this year, the direct and indirect effects of abortion bans and restrictions impact far more than just people who can get pregnant. From putting pressure on care in states where abortion remains accessible to inflicting trauma and grief on those who are forced to travel to access care, here’s how … Read more
Supreme Court to hear South Carolina’s attempt to defund Planned Parenthood
Supreme Court takes up South Carolina bid to defund Planned Parenthood The state wants to prevent reproductive health care groups from receiving federal funds via the Medicaid program because it provides abortions. Read more at NBC News Supreme Court takes up South Carolina’s effort to defund Planned Parenthood The court will restrict itself to a … Read more
For many rural women, finding maternity care outweighs abortion access concerns
The push to preserve and expand abortion access in states where it’s protected often collides with ideological and health care divides between urban and rural residents. Read more at 19th News
Arizona governor calls for repeal of state law requiring annual abortion report
The Arizona governor, Katie Hobbs, is calling for legislators to repeal the state law that requires an annual abortion report, saying that it infringes on patients’ privacy, which echoes other Democratic officials’ push to reduce or eliminate such requirements. Read more at The Guardian
Jackson County judge halts Missouri’s near total abortion ban but procedures can’t restart yet
A Jackson County judge granted a preliminary injunction on Friday striking down Missouri’s near-total abortion ban and several other abortion restrictions, but upheld licensing requirements, leaving abortion services in limbo. Read more at National Public Radio, Inc.
Texas sues New York doctor for providing abortion pills via telemedicine
Texas sues New York doctor for telemedicine prescription of abortion pills In the lawsuit, filed Thursday in Collin County, Paxton said that Margaret Daley Carpenter, a New York doctor, provided mifepristone and misoprostol, a pair of abortion-inducing drugs, to a 20-year-old pregnant woman there, which led to a medical abortion. “Carpenter’s conduct violates the Texas … Read more
South Carolina legislators try again on bill that would classify abortion as homicide
South Carolina GOP lawmakers are once again attempting to classify abortion as homicide in the state, opening up abortion recipients to the death penalty. and The new bill does have one key change that carves out an exception for miscarriages. Still, the bill specifies that a patient who experiences a miscarriage may be required to … Read more
A Coast Guard Commander Miscarried. She Nearly Died After Being Denied Care.
Under a decades-old federal law, the military is prohibited from paying for abortions except in cases of rape, incest or to save the life of the mother. This applies even to service members based in states where abortion is legal; Nakagawa lives in Sonoma County, California. There’s also no exception for catastrophic or fatal fetal … Read more
Republicans take aim at subsidies that help tens of millions of women
Numerous other groups that have studied the problem say forcing or even encouraging marriage will not make poverty disappear. And a recent study by a team at the University of South Carolina found that when state laws make it harder for pregnant women to get divorced, they’re more likely to be killed by their partners. … Read more