The state of Texas is asking the Supreme Court to allow it to continue denying emergency medical care to pregnant women, pretty please. The request, which the justices will consider at conference on Monday, September 30, comes on the heels of a new report that shows the state’s maternal mortality rate has spiked dramatically since … Read more
Despite all his attempts at striking a moderate pose, many in the anti-abortion movement believe Trump’s just playing politics and that he will do as the movement wishes when back in power, deriving comfort from his refusal at this month’s debate to say that he would veto a national abortion ban. An ardent anti-abortion activist … Read more
The study authors attribute the decline to the closure of abortion clinics, where many people access prescriptions for contraception. Post-Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, 63 brick-and-mortar abortion clinics in 14 states closed, including 24 in Texas. “Because 11 percent of women rely on such clinics for the provision of prescriptions for contraceptives — many … Read more
Joshua has said that in 2022, she was around 11 weeks pregnant when she experienced cramping and bleeding, telltale signs of a miscarriage. But when she sought care at two different Baton Rouge-area emergency rooms, she didn’t receive care to manage the miscarriage like medication or a dilation and curettage — both of which are … Read more
A new report, released on Tuesday by the nonprofit Physicians for Human Rights, confirms what Daniels is seeing for herself: that many Floridians don’t realize that the state’s six-week ban is effectively a two-week ban, a vanishingly short window further winnowed by Florida’s required 24-hour waiting period; that many doctors are delaying or refusing to … Read more
“They know their law is what puts women in danger and they’re just trying to threaten physicians so that we feel scared, rather than taking accountability for what their law is doing to people,” an OB-GYN in Florida tells Rolling Stone. She asked that her name not be used because the state controls her license … Read more
In Louisiana, doctors will no longer be able to carry a lifesaving medication with them during pregnancy emergencies. In Texas, the infant mortality rate is soaring. In Idaho, pregnant people drive hours just to give birth. And in Oklahoma and Georgia, women are bleeding out in hospital parking lots and facing dangerous infections before they … Read more
That’s the bind the Christian right puts women in. If you die, they say it’s your fault for not having faith in the “exceptions.” If you complete your abortion and live, they accuse you of being a liar and a murderer and insist the exceptions should not have covered you. As we see in these … Read more
Harris says strict abortion laws lead to ‘predictable’ suffering for women Vice President Harris called former President Donald Trump the “architect” of a health care crisis caused by a rollback of access to abortion in various states following the U.S. Supreme Court decision overturning Roe v. Wade. Speaking in Atlanta Friday, Harris called tougher abortion … Read more
Trump, contending with unpopular GOP abortion bans, turns focus to women Hours before the North Carolina rally, shortly after midnight, Trump had written on his social media site Truth Social in an 181-word, all-caps post that women are less healthy, less safe, and more depressed and unhappy than they were when he was president. He … Read more
