At least 20 Planned Parenthood clinics shutter amid political turbulence
The reproductive health giant is navigating a loss of federal funding and fresh threats from multiple directions Read more at The Guardian
Texas Cop Used Flock ALPR Cameras To Track A Woman Who Had An Abortion
And this is how that meshing of public-private is playing out in real life. As Joseph Cox and Jason Koebler report for 404 Media, at least one law enforcement officer has used this meshed network of Flock ALPR cameras to help locate a woman who recently had an abortion. Read more at Techdirt
A Texas bill to block abortion pills has died for now
The bill was poised to offer a blueprint for abortion restrictions nationwide. Read more at 19th News
Missouri Supreme Court order reinstates ‘de facto abortion ban’ across the state
The Missouri Supreme Court on Tuesday ordered a judge in Kansas City to lift an injunction that had blocked restrictions on abortion, a decision that upends access to the procedure six months after voters enshrined reproductive rights into the state constitution. Read more at 19th News
GOP nominee for Virginia governor tries to distance herself from anti-abortion past
Winsome Earle-Sears called abortion ‘genocide’ and implied equivalence between consenting to sex and consenting to pregnancy Read more at The Guardian
Dear America: women’s bodies are not state property – Tayo Bero – opinion
Anyone who thinks this is about the life of Adriana Smith’s child is fooling themselves. This is the state, boundary testing to see how far they can take their efforts to have full reproductive control over American women, and gauging how much the American public is willing to tolerate. Read more at The Guardian
A Convenient Piece of Junk Science
The report that Kennedy cited was posted late last month to the website of the Ethics and Public Policy Center, a Washington, D.C.–based think tank focused on “pushing back against the extreme progressive agenda while building a consensus for conservatives,” according to its website. The study’s authors, Jamie Bryan Hall, EPPC’s director of data analysis, … Read more
A Planned Parenthood affiliate plans to close 4 clinics in Iowa and another 4 in Minnesota
“We have been fighting to hold together an unsustainable infrastructure as the landscape shifts around us and an onslaught of attacks continues,” Ruth Richardson, the affiliate’s president and CEO, said in a statement. Read more at NBC News
How shoddy science is fueling a charge to restrict abortion pill access
The FDA has been tasked with re-evaluating the safety of mifepristone after a flawed report claimed it has a high rate of serious complications. Read more at NBC News
Republicans are raiding childcare funding — to push women out of the workforce – opinion
The New York Times reported this week that the White House is now not only looking for ways to make more women have children, but to encourage “parents” to stay home to raise them. “Parents” here is a euphemism. Roughly 80% of stay-at-home parents are mothers: cultural traditions that encourage women, and not men, to … Read more