In California, where abortion rights are guaranteed, there’s a loophole. The growth of Catholic hospital systems, which restrict reproductive health care, has left patients with no other option for care. Read more at 19th News
When pressed on if Trump would veto a national abortion if brought to his desk as president, Vance wouldn’t commit to an answer. Instead, Vance said Sunday that Trump “thinks it’s ridiculous to talk about vetoing a piece of legislation that isn’t going to come before the president in the first place.” Read more at … Read more
“We’re in the midst of an abortion funding crisis,” says Oriaku Njoku, the executive director of the National Network of Abortion Funds, which provides an online search tool for patients to find a local or regional assistance fund. Njoku and others at these funds point to intersecting pressures: increased demand for financial assistance for abortions, … Read more
The majority of cases did not require prosecutors to find evidence that the fetus was harmed Read more at Salon
In August, Amber Thurman, a Georgia woman who suffered a rare complication from abortion pills, died from an infection after Georgia passed a law banning the abortion treatment that would have saved her life. Earlier this summer, Texas woman Kate Cox, whose fetus’ lethal anomaly doctors said threatened her health and future fertility, left the … Read more
At his core, if Vance has one, there is a Christian nationalism that seems to embrace Trump as a means to an end. This is what really concerns me about Vance, not that he believes in nothing, but that he believes in a country run on Christianity above law. Read more at the LA Times … Read more
As many feminist critics — myself included — have argued, Vance’s relentless talk about children isn’t rooted in a true enthusiasm for the joys of parenthood. Instead, it’s about leveraging childbirth as a weapon against women’s equality, driving them out of the workforce and into dependent relationships with men. That’s why he also opposes affordable … Read more
“One in three women in America lives in a state with a Trump abortion ban,” Harris said. “Think about that when you also combine that with what we know has been long-standing neglect around an issue like maternal mortality … Where you been when it comes to taking care of the women and children of … Read more
When the Trump Supreme Court struck down Roe v. Wade in 2022, it opened the door to a new regime of state-level policing and punishment of American women. After this year’s election, Republicans may or may not have the votes in Congress to pass a national abortion ban. That’s not the most important question, however. … Read more
“A lot of people might go: ‘Oh, two minutes, that’s really fast.’ And yes, in the long scheme of things, that’s fast. But when you have someone who is actively hemorrhaging – in two minutes, they can lose hundreds of cc’s of blood,” Freehill said. “So those seconds count. I’m definitely worried about what’s going … Read more
