Women’s advocates see the politics of the lawsuit as well. “It’s no coincidence that this organized, partisan effort is occurring in states that have some of the highest maternal mortality rates in the country,” Jocelyn Frye of the National Partnership for Women & Families wrote in a statement. “Any attempt to dismantle these protections will … Read more
Researchers are calling for the retraction of misleading anti-abortion studies that could influence judges in critical cases Read more at The Guardian
In the hothouse of abortion politics this year, video also surfaced of Robinson at a rally in February calling for an eventual ban on abortion. “We got to do it the same way they rolled it forward,” Robinson said. “We got to do it the same way with rolling it back. We’ve got it down … Read more
The Republican, during remarks in a new interview published by NBC’s Meet the Press, stopped short of saying whether or not he supported a 15-week federal ban on abortion with exceptions, but he instead portrayed the issue as “a practical matter” that was too divisive among federal lawmakers to result in a consensus among them. … Read more
Perry has backed the Life at Conception Act in every Congress since 2017. This bill guarantees a constitutional “right to life” to every “human being,” and defines “human being” to include “all stages of life, including the moment of fertilization, cloning, or other moment at which an individual member of the human species comes into … Read more
The group, the Campaign for Accountability. alleges that the centers collect sensitive medical data from patients and may mislead them about data privacy. Read more at NBC News
As efforts to address the country’s maternal mortality crisis have stalled at the federal level, advocates and lawmakers are increasingly turning to statewide maternal mortality review committees to make progress — and try to save lives. Read more at 19th News
“The more that they lose in places like Arizona and West Virginia and Kansas, I think that there’s even more pressure for national bans,” Holland said. “This movement has this moral goal. It is neither here nor there whether it is democratically reached or democratically supported. The goal is there should be no abortion because … Read more
The US supreme court heard one of the most sadistic, extreme anti-abortion cases yet | Moira Donegan (opinion piece) Their own Dobbs decision, after all, did not require any state to allow abortions in the case of risks to women’s health. Sepsis, organ failure and loss of fertility in women were thereby tacitly accepted by … Read more
“It makes no sense that we’re just going to wait until you’re on death’s door and then we’ll act,” said Dr. Duncan Harmon, one of only five full-time doctors specializing in maternal fetal medicine who remain in Idaho. Read more at NBC News
