Dusty Deevers is a fundamentalist preacher. He’s also a state senator. And he insists he doesn’t see “any firewalls” between his two roles — as he crusades to outlaw porn, end what he decries as the “abortion holocaust,” and abolish no-fault divorce in Oklahoma. He argues that the sole purpose of government is to “promote … Read more
Research at the heart of a federal case against the abortion pill has been retracted Sage, the publisher of the journal, retracted the study on Monday along with two other papers, explaining in a statement that “expert reviewers found that the studies demonstrate a lack of scientific rigor that invalidates or renders unreliable the authors’ … Read more
Some people in Tennessee say he still has a long way to go to make things right. “I do think that we find ourselves in exactly the position that lawmakers intended us to be in,” says Elise Boos, an obstetrician in Nashville. “We’re scared to death to provide care, and so it’s withheld.” Read more … Read more
K Monica Kelly had to travel to Florida for an abortion after her fetus was diagnosed with trisomy 13 – now she’s part of a group suing her state Read more at The Guardian
For Doe, his anti-abortion backers and Paxton, though, the doily-ness of the argument hardly matters. Bringing it in the first place is a win-win. At best, they’ll get the greenlight from Kacsmaryk and the 5th Circuit, forcing Planned Parenthood to put its best hope for survival in the Supreme Court. At worst, they’ll force Planned … Read more
Florida Democrats told HuffPost they’re worried the law will be weaponized against abortion providers, OB-GYNs who handle miscarriages and physicians who offer reproductive care such as in vitro fertilization. Read more at Huffpost
The report adds to the evidence of a maternal and infant health crisis in the US, one experts expect will be exacerbated by abortion bans across the US south and in some western states. The US has one of the worst maternal mortality rates among developed democracies, according to the Commonwealth Fund. Read more at … Read more
He’s not talking about abortion much on the trail, but the former president has been a dependable ally of the anti-abortion movement and would have powers to act in a second term. Read more at 19th News
I want to be clear: When I say these laws target anyone who “helps” a teen get an abortion, I don’t just mean someone who physically takes them out of the state. You could be arrested for lending a teenager gas money, or texting them the url of an out-of-state clinic. That’s because both Tennessee’s … Read more
With near-total bans on abortion in 14 states, the laws on miscarriage are vague – stoking fears of criminal consequences Read more at The Guardian
