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
RFK Jr. is laundering Christian right views as MAHA – opinion
Tucker Carlson is a good barometer of this. The internet show he started after he was fired from Fox News has an overtly Christian nationalist lean. He had Means on in September to spread lies meant to scare women out of using hormonal birth control. After Carlson falsely presented it as forbidden information with “you … Read more
Case of a brain-dead pregnant woman kept on life support is ‘gut-wrenching,’ advocates say
“Everyone deserves the freedom to decide what’s best for their families, futures, and lives. Instead, anti-abortion politicians like Donald Trump and Governor Brian Kemp are forcing people through unimaginable pain,” Williams said. “Adriana’s story is gut-wrenching. It’s also a painful reminder of the consequences when politicians refuse to trust us to make our own medical … Read more
Why so many clinics that provide abortion are closing, even where it’s still legal
“It’s gotten more expensive to provide care, it’s gotten more dangerous to provide care, and it’s just gotten, frankly, harder to provide care, when you’re expected to be in the clinic and then on the statehouse steps, and also speaking to your representatives and trying to find somebody who will fix your roof or paint … Read more
Hospital tells family brain-dead Georgia woman must carry fetus due to abortion ban
With her due date still more than three months away, it could be one of the longest such pregnancies. Her family is upset that Georgia’s law that restricts abortion once cardiac activity is detected doesn’t allow relatives to have a say in whether a pregnant woman is kept on life support. Read more at National … Read more
RFK Jr. orders review of mifepristone, abortion opponents want a ban
RFK Jr orders mifepristone review as anti-abortion groups push for ban Kirsten Moore, director of the Expanding Medication Abortion Access Project, told the Guardian she was not surprised by either the existence of a plan to restrict the drugs or that the push is based on what she called “manufactured misinformation”. Moore said that reproductive … Read more
Missouri Republicans aim to repeal new amendment that protects abortion
Republican legislators approve ballot item that would again ban most abortions in Missouri Senate Minority Leader Doug Beck, D-St. Louis County, said Republicans were thumbing their noses at voters. “They again turned down the will of the Missouri voters, the will of the people, of what they wanted,” Beck said. Read more at St. Louis … Read more
A Texas abortion ban sponsor aims to clarify when doctors can do the procedure
Despite the Trump administration exhorting Americans to have more babies, pregnancy can be a dangerous endeavor in the United States. Geography matters. A recent report from the Gender Equity Policy Institute showed that the risk of maternal death in Texas is 155 percent higher than it is in California, where 9.5 women per 100,000 died. … Read more
Georgia mother says she is being forced to keep brain-dead pregnant daughter alive under abortion ban law
A spokesperson for Emory Healthcare said it “uses consensus from clinical experts, medical literature, and legal guidance to support our providers as they make individualized treatment recommendations in compliance with Georgia’s abortion laws and all other applicable laws.” Read more at NBC News