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No Rights To Speak Of – Page 143 – Tracking the harms women face post-Roe

Laws enshrining personhood rights on embryos could threaten LGBTQ family planning, experts say

“Dobbs doesn’t just drop into a vacuum,” said Polly Crozier, a senior staff attorney at GLBTQ Legal Advocates and Defenders, or GLAD. “Already we have seen attacks on LGBTQ families, because there have been cases in the past few years attacking nonbiological parents. We will probably see more challenges to the marital presumption of parentage … Read more

Criminalization of pregnancy has already been happening to the poor and women of color

Sussman says the door swings both ways. “I anticipate that prosecutors will sweep in anyone who is experiencing a pregnancy loss that they deem ‘suspicious,’” Sussman says. Suspicious. That was the rationale used to target the women treated at the Medical University of South Carolina in 1989. Black women are twice as likely to have … Read more

Indiana Passes Abortion Ban With Only Limited Exceptions

Indiana becomes 1st state to approve abortion ban post Roe Indiana on Friday became the first state in the nation to approve abortion restrictions since the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, as the Republican governor quickly signed a near-total ban on the procedure shortly after lawmakers approved it. Read more at The Hill … Read more

Continuing coverage of the Indiana doctor who performed a necessary abortion on a 10-year-old

Indiana investigates abortion doctor who treated 10-year-old rape victim According to Kathleen DeLaney, a lawyer acting for the doctor, Caitlin Bernard, a notice from the Indiana attorney general, Todd Rokita, regarding his investigation arrived on Tuesday. “We are in the process of reviewing this information. It’s unclear to us what is the nature of the … Read more

Infertility patients fear abortion bans could affect access to IVF treatment

A handful of state abortion bans define life as beginning at fertilization, though they don’t specifically target the process of IVF. Other states are attempting to pass legislation that would grant embryos, fetuses and fertilized eggs personhood rights and in some cases constitutional rights. Such laws would “pose a concrete threat to the routine practice … Read more

As Demand for Medication Abortion Increases, Facebook Allows Ads for Potentially Dangerous “Abortion Reversal” Procedure

The Markup has found that Facebook is serving up ads and posts for the so-called “abortion pill reversal” procedure, a medically unapproved and potentially dangerous process that the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists says is “not based on science.” Read more at The Markup