Women can be prosecuted for taking abortion pills, says Alabama attorney general
Women in Alabama who end pregnancies using abortion pills can be prosecuted. Read article at al.com
Websites Selling Abortion Pills Are Sharing Sensitive Data With Google
Using a tool created by the Markup, a nonprofit tech-journalism newsroom, ProPublica ran checks on 11 online pharmacies that sell abortion medication to reveal the web tracking technology they use. Late last year and in early January, ProPublica found web trackers on the sites of at least nine online pharmacies that provide pills by mail: … Read more
Harris on Roe anniversary: ‘No one is immune’ to impacts of Supreme Court decision
“To everyone listening, be sure, no one is immune from these impacts,” she said in remarks from Tallahassee, Fla. “Even in states that protect reproductive rights like New Jersey, Illinois, Oregon, even then, people live in fear of what might be next because Republicans in Congress are now calling for a nationwide abortion ban. Some … Read more
Anti-abortion activists target access to medication abortion
Next frontier in the abortion wars: Your local CVS Anti-abortion advocates are organizing pickets outside CVS and Walgreens in early February in at least eight cities, including Washington, D.C., in response to the companies’ plans to take advantage of the Food and Drug Administration’s decision last week allowing retail pharmacies to stock and dispense abortion … Read more
Kristi Noem Wants More States To Adopt Extreme Abortion Laws
Abortion is illegal in South Dakota unless the life of the mother is at risk, due to a trigger law that went into effect after the Supreme Court overturned the landmark Roe v. Wade ruling last summer. Noem is now urging “every governor” to implement similar policies. Read more at HuffPost
Abortion pills could be banned – lawsuit in Texas
This Trump Judge Could Effectively Ban the Abortion Pill It’s the kind of lawsuit that would normally be quickly dismissed, but the Amarillo division of the Northern District of Texas happens to be the judicial fiefdom of a zealous young Trump appointee whose most recent job was as deputy general counsel for a conservative Christian … Read more
Abortion pills should be easier to get. That doesn’t mean that they will be
Now, a permanent rule change by the Food and Drug Administration will allow retail pharmacies to fill prescriptions for the drugs, making the once onerous process of obtaining the abortion pills much easier in states that permit the procedure. But in places with strict anti-abortion bans, pregnant people may still find it challenging to get … Read more
The U.S. faces ‘unprecedented uncertainty’ regarding abortion law, legal scholar says
“We’re at a moment of really almost unprecedented uncertainty in the United States when it comes to abortion,” Ziegler says. “Lots of people are waking up to the reality that what was a constitutional right not very long ago is now a crime in large swaths of the country.” Read more National Public Radio, Inc.
As states seek to scale back abortions, Montana wants to redefine medical necessity under Medicaid
Advocates and lawmakers have said the move is part of a broader agenda to whittle away access to the procedure, making it more difficult for low-income people to receive services. Read more at The 19th
States with abortion bans are also ‘economically disempowering’ people, report says
States enacting abortion bans are also “economically disempowering workers” through other channels, according to an Economic Policy Institute (EPI) report released Wednesday. The study analyzed five indicators of economic security — minimum wage, unionization, unemployment insurance, Medicaid expansion and incarceration — and found strong correlations with state-level abortion access. Read more at The 19th