Vice President Harris to ratchet up fight for abortion access as 2024 looms

“Extremists across our country continue to wage a full-on attack against hard-won, hard-fought freedoms as they push their radical policies — from banning abortion in all 50 states and criminalizing doctors, to forcing women to travel out of state in order to get the care they need,” Harris said in a statement. Read more at … Read more

Reproductive rights group urges Ohio prosecutor to drop criminal charge against woman who miscarried

Beene said Ohio Physicians for Reproductive Rights fears the case will deter other women from seeking miscarriage care. The organization also shared its letter, dated Dec. 15, with the Warren mayor, law director and city council members, in hopes of building support for dropping charges against Watts. Read more at The Hill  

Black Ohio woman’s arrest after pregnancy loss begs the question, ‘What do you do after a miscarriage?’

Despite expert testimony advocating the pregnancy was not viable, the case went viral this weekend when a judge decided that she will face a grand jury. This is another story contributing to the trend of pregnancy-related criminalization continuing across the country. Read more at Cleveland.com

GOP presidential candidates forced to discuss Texas abortion ban

Texas Abortion Case Exposes GOP’s Inability to Defend Their Own Laws When Kate Cox was forced to flee Texas after state authorities denied her pleas to terminate a potentially deadly pregnancy, it laid bare the true cost of state control over women’s reproductive health. It’s also made plain that Republicans — despite their claims to … Read more

Dozens of Texas businesses back challenge to abortion ban: ‘This is why our economy is taking a hit’

The Bumble filing draws on research that found that nearly half of young women in nine battleground states are considering or making plans to move to a state with “comprehensive protections” for reproductive health care, and nearly two-thirds of college educated workers nationwide would not consider a job in a state with abortion restrictions. Read more at The Hill … Read more

Texas v. pregnant women – hollow exceptions, legal threats to doctors, intentional ambiguities in the law

Texas war on pregnant women (Opinion piece) Texan women considering pregnancy are well advised to flee — as Cox did, leaving the state to get the care she needed. OB-GYN doctors are leaving the state as well: There are none in two-thirds of the state’s counties. Texas is assuredly anti-abortion, but that doesn’t mean that … Read more