To satisfy Democratic demands to comply with the Hyde amendment when Obamacare passed in 2010, the law does not allow federal funds to cover abortions. Some states allow people insured under Obamacare to access abortion coverage using state or other funding. Republicans want to change that. Read more at NBC News
But we’ve seen far less attention paid to how young women are also being radicalized in digital spaces, similarly lured by seemingly apolitical content — about celebrity gossip, “natural” birth control, “clean girl” aesthetics, and dating — only to eventually be persuaded that our rights to abortion, contraception, even to vote or own bank accounts, … Read more
Recent data on residency applications show that state abortion bans may be influencing the next generation of doctors. Fewer medical students are applying to OB-GYN residency programs in states that restrict or ban abortion, according to a data analysis from the Association of American Medical Colleges. Read more at National Public Radio, Inc.
After the Supreme Court decided that the doctors didn’t have standing to sue, the AGs amended their complaint in October 2024, adding the vile argument that telehealth prescriptions of mifepristone harmed the states because these prescriptions allow more teens to end unwanted pregnancies. In their eyes, state governments need to be able to force births to prevent “potentially ‘losing … Read more
New documents and court records obtained by EFF show that Texas deputies queried Flock Safety’s surveillance data in an abortion investigation, contradicting the narrative promoted by the company and the Johnson County Sheriff that she was “being searched for as a missing person,” and that “it was about her safety.” The new information shows that deputies had initiated a … Read more
“This is based on my observation, but legislators simply do not prioritize girls’ issues,” she says. Passing the laws “costs nothing and harms no one, except predators who prey on children. The only thing I can think of is misogyny, rather than this organized pushback that you would think would be the reason that 34 … Read more
The White House’s decision to stop short of an IVF mandate or taxpayer-funded program highlights the power that social conservatives and anti-abortion advocates still wield within the administration — even as their agenda has at times clashed with the secular flank of the GOP’s natalist wing that wants more government intervention to help families have … Read more
The administration’s charged rhetoric comes as Trump seeks to establish his bona fides with the pronatalist movement, which supports policies that would boost the U.S. birth rate and has ties to Christian nationalist and conservative Catholic communities. This month he announced steps that he said would make fertility care more affordable. Dr. Mehmet Oz, who … Read more
What is most worrying about this post-Roe trend of “pregnancy-related crimes”, however, is that the laws used in most of these prosecutions are meant to protect children rather than fetuses. What we are seeing here is a growing acceptance of the idea of “fetal personhood”, which grants fetuses and embryos the full rights of a … Read more
SB 323 would ban all abortions in the state except for those performed in medical emergencies or to prevent a pregnant person from suffering death or major, irreversible harm. It strikes exceptions for rape, incest and fatal fetal anomaly diagnoses, while redefining “contraceptive” as a “drug, device or chemical that prevents conception.” Read more at … Read more
