‘No one’s coming to save us’: Abortion campaigns scramble for limited cash
From deep-red Arkansas and Missouri to purple Arizona and Nevada, activists are already competing with each other. Read more at Politico
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Alabama Supreme Court rules embryos are children – news round-up
Alabama Supreme Court rules that frozen embryos outside the womb are children The lawsuit involved embryos stored at a fertility clinic in Mobile. According to the opinion, in 2020 a patient “managed to wander” into the fertility clinic and remove several frozen embryos from the nursery, according to the lawsuit. The patient dropped the frozen … Read more
Second Trump Administration – Christian Nationalism – round-up
Trump allies prepare to infuse ‘Christian nationalism’ in second administration It also proposes increasing surveillance of abortion and maternal mortality reporting in the states, compelling the Food and Drug Administration to revoke approval of “chemical abortion drugs” and protecting “religious and moral” objections for employers who decline contraception coverage for employees. One of the groups … Read more
Trump backs 16-week ban with exceptions?
Trump privately backs 16-week abortion ban with exceptions, report says “Know what I like about 16?” Trump told one individual, according to the Times, which based its report on two people with knowledge of Trump’s thoughts. “It’s even. It’s four months.” Read more at The Guardian Trump campaign scrambles over abortion ban report as Democrats … Read more
Tennessee advances bill to ban people from helping minors obtain abortion
The bill would allow individuals to sue for “wrongful death” after an abortion – language that suggests that a fetus is legally considered a person. Establishing the legal personhood of fetuses is a longtime goal of the anti-abortion movement and could have sweeping implications for vast swathes of US law, as it could leave pregnant … Read more
Anti-abortion centers raked in $1.4bn in year Roe fell, including federal money
Anti-abortion facilities raked in at least $1.4bn in revenue in the 2022 fiscal year, the year Roe v Wade fell – a staggering haul that includes at least $344m in government money, according to a memo analyzing the centers’ tax documents that was compiled by a pro-abortion rights group and shared exclusively with the Guardian. … Read more
A company tracked visits to 600 Planned Parenthood locations for anti-abortion ads, senator says
A company allegedly tracked people’s visits to nearly 600 Planned Parenthood locations across 48 states and provided that data for one of the largest anti-abortion ad campaigns in the nation, according to an investigation by Sen. Ron Wyden, a scope that far exceeds what was previously known. Read more at Politico
More ‘navigators’ are helping women travel to have abortions
“People are being forced later into pregnancies to access care” because of the difficulty of arranging travel over long distances and the chilling effect of the bans, said Brittany Fonteno, president of the NAF, a nonprofit professional organization of clinics that provide abortions. “It increases the cost of care and has a devastating impact on … Read more
For some pregnant patients, unregulated anti-abortion centers are the only affordable option
Research has found that crisis pregnancy centers often provide inaccurate information about pregnancy, which can influence people’s reproductive decisions. Read more at 19th News
Florida Chief Justice Pushes Fetal Personhood At Argument For Abortion Amendment
Muñiz was quoting from one of the earliest passages in Florida’s constitution that says that all natural persons “are equal before the law and have inalienable rights, among which are the right to enjoy and defend life and liberty, to pursue happiness, to be rewarded for industry, and to acquire, possess and protect property.” If … Read more