The perinatal period places people at an increased risk for the onset and relapse of mental health disorders. The increased restrictions on receiving abortion care coupled with proven risk factors for perinatal mood and anxiety disorders could increase people’s risks for psychological suffering. Read more at The Conversation
This week, two federal judges reached opposite conclusions about the conflict. At the behest of the Biden administration, Judge B. Lynn Winmill blocked the Idaho law. EMTALA, he noted, “demands abortion care to prevent injuries that are more wide-ranging than death.” The Idaho law requires that doctors allow their patients’ conditions to deteriorate disastrously before … Read more
She says she couldn’t fully face the trauma from her experience for many years — after she became a mother, and watched her own daughter turn 11. “A lot of my grief was really realizing what it must have been like for my mother to go through something like that,” Elaine says. Elaine spent a … Read more
Woman carrying fetus without a skull to seek abortion in another state following Louisiana ban Davis, who has three children, said she will travel to another state next week to have the procedure done. Read more at NBC News Louisiana woman denied abortion for fetal anomaly calls for special legislative session Nancy Davis, a Baton … Read more
“How close to death is close enough?” Johnson asked. “Extremist anti-abortion politicians in Texas are trying to prevent pregnant people experiencing medical emergencies from receiving life-saving care, despite the fact that federal law requires most hospitals to provide that treatment. Politicians may think they know better than doctors, but doctors should not have to try … Read more
Steven Mazie, who covers the Supreme Court for The Economist, suggested the cases could hinge on “what counts as a medical emergency.” “I can’t believe in a matter of months we’ve gone from losing the constitutional right to abortion to debating whether doctors can provide lifesaving care to patients,” said Kate Smith, senior director of … Read more
Banning abortion has drastic implications for reproductive technology, which up to 15% of couples may need. Fertility specialists are sounding the alarms. No laws exist that explicitly deny IVF yet. However, the waters could get murky. If an embryo is the same as a person in the eyes of the law, is discarding one the … Read more
On Tuesday, a Texas judge ruled that Biden administration guidance asserting that doctors must perform abortions in emergencies — regardless of state bans — is illegitimate overreach and that the federal law underlying the guidance does not limit the state’s new trigger ban. A day later, an Idaho judge ruled just the opposite: that the state’s … Read more
Siding with the two groups of anti-abortion physicians as well as the state of Texas, Hendrix writes that the HHS guidance requiring physicians to act when the woman’s health is at risk is too generous. Read more at Talking Points Memo
“You have the right, ostensibly, to talk about abortion,” said Will Creeley, the legal director for the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression. “The question then becomes whether that talk can be regulated if it aids and abets or encourages others to have an abortion. “That presents a First Amendment problem,” he added. “Will you … Read more
