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
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
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
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
“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.
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 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
Overnight, a generation of women born with the constitutionally protected right to an abortion saw it taken away. It has upended some of the biggest decisions of their lives. Read more at Vox
Anti-Abortion Activists Got What They Wanted. They Can’t Agree on What’s Next Musgrave, a former member of Congress, understands how public opinion works. “We want to end all abortion. But we’re practical. And we know what’s doable,” she says. At the same time, she says, her organization and others are keeping their eyes on the … Read more
But that may be changing. A bill introduced Thursday in Oklahoma’s Senate would amend the state’s abortion restrictions, eliminating language that clarifies pregnant people are protected from prosecution. Under that bill, which has not yet been assigned to a legislative committee and has no co-sponsors yet, pregnant people could face felony charges if they induce … Read more
