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The Pro-life Movement’s Not-So-Secret Plan for Trump

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The question people should be asking is whether Trump will give free rein to the anti-abortion advisers in his orbit, Mary Ziegler, a law professor at the UC Davis School of Law, told me. The big thing those advisers are pushing for is the reinterpretation and enforcement of the Comstock Act. As I wrote in … Read more

The Right Is Cracking Down on Abortion and IVF. Is ‘Recreational Sex’ Next?

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The plans are already beginning to take shape. As previously reported by Rolling Stone, Republicans have floated enforcing the Comstock Act, a zombie law from the 19th century, to criminalize the inter-state shipping of abortion medication. The outdated law also includes broad prohibitions on the mailing of materials considered “obscene, lewd, lascivious, indecent, filthy, or … Read more

Fallout from the Alabama IVF decision – news round-up

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‘My embryos aren’t safe here’: US patients struggling with infertility scramble after Alabama IVF ruling Alabama has long been a laboratory for fetal personhood measures. Between 1973 and 2022, when the US supreme court overturned Roe v Wade, Alabama law enforcement criminalized nearly 700 people for allegedly endangering “unborn life” – a record number of … Read more

Doctors shocked and angry as Alabama ruling throws IVF care into turmoil

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“We’re legislating malpractice – we’re saying, ‘You don’t use your normal medical principles, all the training you went through, all your experience’ – we’re just tossing it out to this arbitrary idea that doesn’t have a biological basis,” said Chen. Read more at The Guardian  

Biden blasts Alabama Supreme Court’s IVF ruling as Harris, campaign blame Trump

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“Today, in 2024 in America, women are being turned away from emergency rooms and forced to travel hundreds of miles for health care, while doctors fear prosecution for providing an abortion. And now, a court in Alabama put access to some fertility treatments at risk for families who are desperately trying to get pregnant,” he … Read more

IVF Clinics in Alabama begin to close

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Second Alabama provider stops IVF care after court deems embryos ‘children’ A second Alabama provider announced that it will pause its in-vitro fertilization (IVF) treatments on Thursday, just days after the state supreme court ruled in a first-of-its-kind decision that embryos are “extrauterine children”. Read more at The Guardian Three Alabama clinics pause IVF services … Read more

Alabama justice who ruled embryos are people says American law should be rooted in the Bible

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Parker’s statements — in his remarks to Enlow and in his written opinion — are the latest examples of Republican politicians and elected officials embracing the Christian nationalist view that America’s laws should be rooted in a fundamentalist reading of the Bible. Read more at NBC News  

More teens are reporting that a partner has threatened their reproductive health

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“Now we’re seeing abusive partners who can threaten someone’s livelihood and their families with a stack of civil and criminal penalties and use that as a way to ruin their life, where this specific tool just didn’t exist before Dobbs,” Durrani said, stressing that this reality very much applies to young people too, as evidenced … Read more