Abortion Won Almost Everywhere. Here’s Where It Lost Voters in 10 states considered protections for abortion. They won in seven Read more at Rolling Stone Abortion amendments pass in Colorado, Missouri, Maryland and more while Florida measure fails Life updates on efforts to enshrine abortion rights in state constitutions or tweak existing laws Read more … Read more
I can’t agree to disagree about doctors refusing medical attention for ectopic pregnancies, and women being arrested for their miscarriages. Have you ever had a miscarriage? I have. It’s physically and emotionally devastating enough without the fear that you and your healthcare provider may be questioned, scrutinized, penalized, that you may have your life endangered, … Read more
There are several ways Trump could further limit abortion access without breaking his campaign promise not to implement a national ban, experts said. Read more at NBC News
The panic didn’t just extend to abortion pills. The online women’s health provider Wisp told the Guardian it had already tripled its usual daily sales of emergency contraception by 11.30am on Wednesday. It also saw a huge increase in orders of bulk Plan B packs, which went from about 30% of their emergency contraceptive orders … Read more
Project 2025, which was primarily crafted by the influential thinktank the Heritage Foundation but backed by more than 100 conservative groups, includes a laundry list of anti-abortion policies. It suggests rolling back the FDA’s approval of abortion pills, increasing CDC “surveillance” of abortion and pregnancy loss to police ban violations, and stripping federal funding from … Read more
Nobody sums up how we got here better than Donald Trump. In his own words: “For 54 years, they were trying to get Roe v. Wade terminated, and I did it, and I’m proud to have done it.” If he is elected president again, make no mistake: He will sign a national abortion ban. And … Read more
In several states across the country, there are already extreme abortion bans that have led to the deaths of multiple pregnant women and at least one teen; restrictive voting policies that make it difficult for citizens to cast their ballots; defunding of education and censorship of books; and other such policies that have also been … Read more
Now, 2 ½ years later, with near-full abortion bans in 13 states, deaths confirmed because of them, and a smattering of states that have enacted protections via the direct democracy of ballot initiatives, the country has a choice: to reelect Republican Donald Trump, whose pledge to undo Roe helped fuel his first ascent to the … Read more
For another, DeSantis — the man who signed back-to-back abortion bans into law here — has thrown the full force of the state government behind coordinated efforts to tank the measure. Read more at Rolling Stone
Of course, we all know what “protect” really means in this context: it means “control”. Should he become president again, Trump and his allies seem intent on massively expanding the power of the president and eliminating hard-won freedoms. Conservative lawmakers and influencers want to control a woman’s access to reproductive healthcare. They want to control … Read more
