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
One Texas case shows why women can’t rely on legal exceptions to abortion bans In Texas, the case also suggests that abortions in circumstances similar to Cox’s could remain illegal, highlighting just how hollow and limited medical exceptions are. “It … reveals just how ineffective the ‘health and life’ exceptions to abortion bans are in … Read more
US supreme court agrees to consider abortion pill access “You can’t just bring random lawsuits in court. You actually have to have been harmed by something,” said Greer Donley, an associate law professor at the University of Pittsburgh Law School. “That’s really what standing analysis is all about, to try to figure out if if … Read more
State is latest in which the Comstock Act is being used to try to ban abortion after the fall of Roe v Wade Read more at The Guardian
Texas Sens. Ted Cruz and John Cornyn avoid questions about Kate Cox abortion case Cruz and Cornyn were notably skittish when they were asked to weigh in on Cox’s situation. Given multiple opportunities to respond to questions about the case from NBC News, both senators, who are fierce anti-abortion advocates, refused to comment on the … Read more
Number one is GOP House Speaker Mike Johnson Read more at Rolling Stone
Instead, Jane Doe’s attorneys urged other women who are pregnant and seeking an abortion in the Bluegrass State to reach out if they are interested in joining the case. The lawsuit says Kentucky’s near-total abortion ban violates the plaintiff’s rights to privacy and self-determination under the state constitution. Read more at NBC News
The future of reproductive rights for a wide swath of the Mountain West may be decided next week, as three state Supreme Courts hear arguments in cases that will determine abortion access in the region. Here’s what to know. Read more at National Public Radio, Inc.
The outcome of the case will dictate which abortion ban the state must enforce: the ban enacted in 1864 — a half-century before Arizona even gained statehood — that would likely end almost all legal abortion care in the state, or a 2022 law that bans most abortion after the 15th week of pregnancy. Read … Read more
The hopes of some activists go further. Their ultimate aim in reviving the Comstock Act is to use it to shut down every abortion facility “in all 50 states,” Mark Lee Dickson, a Texas pastor and anti-abortion advocate, told me. Taken literally, Comstock could be applied to prevent the transport of all supplies related to … Read more
