Millions of US women don’t have access to maternity care, report warns More than a third of US counties do not have a single medical birthing facility or the services of an obstetric clinician, causing health advocates to warn about the dangers of “maternity care deserts”, a new report says. Read more at The Guardian … Read more
It is “unprecedented for the State to expressly advocate against a citizen-led initiative,” Bacardi Jackson, the executive director of the ACLU of Florida, told the Times. Elections lawyer Barry Richard, who worked on the amendment, said the state’s website is “completely inappropriate.” Read more at Rolling Stone
Women come here desperate, says Dr. Warren Hern, who has run the Boulder Abortion Clinic since 1975. “It ranges from the 12-year-old kid who’s pregnant from her stepfather to the 45-year-old woman who desperately wants to have a baby and finds out that she has a fatal illness that is incompatible with being pregnant,” he … Read more
“One question that we had was: were the changes that we were seeing initially related to the initial shock of the Dobbs decisions and the laws that then went into effect? Would clinical protocols kind of adjust and healthcare providers would figure out how to provide high-quality care? Would these poor-quality cases disappear?” said Dr … Read more
Vance, meanwhile, has opposed abortion even in the case of rape and incest: “It’s not whether a woman should be forced to bring a child to term,” he said in a 2021 interview. “It’s whether a child should be allowed to live — even though the circumstances of that child’s birth are somehow inconvenient to … Read more
Two residents of Lee County said they were questioned at their homes about the validity of petition signatures Read more at Tampa Bay Times
Abortion clinic providers say barriers to accessing reproductive care is delaying abortion to later in pregnancy Read more at Salon
Robinson replied by saying, “That 12 weeks, exceptions for rape and incest … I’m not going to say it’s reasonable. But my faith allows me to live with that, because that’s where the consensus is. Do I want to continue to lower it? You better know it. I would love to get down to six … Read more
In a 2021 thread on X, Vance called universal childcare a “a massive subsidy to the lifestyle preferences of the affluent over the preferences of the middle and working class”. Vance characterized universal day care as “class warfare against normal people”. He also claimed in a 2021 podcast interview that professional women “choose a path … Read more
Florida voters who signed a petition to place a pro-choice abortion referendum on the ballot this November say they have been visited by police who are investigating claims of fraud at the behest of Gov. Ron DeSantis’ administration, the Tampa Bay Times reported Saturday. Read more at Salon
