Texas man files legal action to investigate ex-partner’s alleged out-of-state abortion “It’s not enough for Texas to ban abortion,” she said. “They truly want to trap people in their state, pregnant, and the purpose of this is to frighten people to make them think there might be repercussions for doing things that are perfectly legal. … Read more
Justices say they will not reconsider contentious February ruling that said frozen embryos are considered children under state law Read more at The Guardian
‘This is life and death’: inside a Florida clinic after the six-week abortion ban Floridians past six weeks of pregnancy may have to venture to clinics in states like New Mexico, Kansas and Illinois. North Carolina is a closer option for many Floridians – but that state only permits abortions until 12 weeks of pregnancy … Read more
Harris and Biden both blame Trump on abortion. How they do it is very different. In a Time Magazine cover story that ran Tuesday, however, Trump indicated that if elected president he wouldn’t get in the way of states’ monitoring women’s pregnancies and wouldn’t commit to vetoing a federal abortion restriction. Harris seized on the … Read more
The shift away from abortion access in Florida opens a new phase in the post-Roe v. Wade world, with severe new limitations on abortion in place across a vast and unbroken stretch of the country. The new landscape further limits access to care for women and is guaranteed to strain reproductive health care services in … Read more
Women across Florida are encountering the new ban, but abortion rights advocates say immigrants in the state and in this county — which has the nation’s highest share of foreign-born residents according to census data — will feel the impact more acutely. They may face language barriers, for instance, or have jobs without paid time … Read more
Texas and Arkansas have similar laws. It’s impossible to know how often women are unable to leave marriages due to pregnancy. Some people may not even try to file for divorce because of the law; as in Destonee’s case, lawyers might simply tell them to come back when they’re not pregnant. Read more at National … Read more
Hailing the 2022 Dobbs v Jackson US supreme court ruling that removed the federal right to abortion, Carson writes: “We must not stop there … the battle over the lives of unborn children is not yet finished. Many states have made abortion illegal because of the Dobbs decision, yet the practice continues in many more … Read more
Missouri’s abortion ban, which threatens doctors with felony charges, has no exceptions for rape or incest. The proposed Right to Reproductive Freedom Amendment would enshrine a constitutional right to abortion to the point of fetal viability, which is determined by physicians but is usually around 22 to 25 weeks of pregnancy, and requires the state … Read more
An amendment to enshrine abortion rights in the South Dakota constitution is now one step closer to making the November ballot. Read more at NBC News
