Women in West Virginia who miscarry could face criminal charges, prosecutor says
Tom Truman of Raleigh county advised women to report their miscarriages to the police to protect themselves Read more at The Guardian
IVF is life-changing for infertile families. But the Christian right says it’s not in ‘God’s plan’
By casting excess embryos as ‘little frozen orphans’ that needed to be ‘saved’ these programs push an alarming view of personhood Read more at The Guardian
Abortion opponents are coming for mifepristone using what medical experts call “junk science”
“There’s a proliferation of anti-abortion propaganda right now. I think it is a coordinated attack on mifepristone,” said Ushma Upadhyay, an associate professor at the University of California, San Francisco who studies medication abortion. Read more at 19th News
At least 20 Planned Parenthood clinics shutter amid political turbulence
The reproductive health giant is navigating a loss of federal funding and fresh threats from multiple directions Read more at The Guardian
Texas Cop Used Flock ALPR Cameras To Track A Woman Who Had An Abortion
And this is how that meshing of public-private is playing out in real life. As Joseph Cox and Jason Koebler report for 404 Media, at least one law enforcement officer has used this meshed network of Flock ALPR cameras to help locate a woman who recently had an abortion. Read more at Techdirt
A Texas bill to block abortion pills has died for now
The bill was poised to offer a blueprint for abortion restrictions nationwide. Read more at 19th News
Missouri Supreme Court order reinstates ‘de facto abortion ban’ across the state
The Missouri Supreme Court on Tuesday ordered a judge in Kansas City to lift an injunction that had blocked restrictions on abortion, a decision that upends access to the procedure six months after voters enshrined reproductive rights into the state constitution. Read more at 19th News
GOP nominee for Virginia governor tries to distance herself from anti-abortion past
Winsome Earle-Sears called abortion ‘genocide’ and implied equivalence between consenting to sex and consenting to pregnancy Read more at The Guardian
Dear America: women’s bodies are not state property – Tayo Bero – opinion
Anyone who thinks this is about the life of Adriana Smith’s child is fooling themselves. This is the state, boundary testing to see how far they can take their efforts to have full reproductive control over American women, and gauging how much the American public is willing to tolerate. Read more at The Guardian
A Convenient Piece of Junk Science
The report that Kennedy cited was posted late last month to the website of the Ethics and Public Policy Center, a Washington, D.C.–based think tank focused on “pushing back against the extreme progressive agenda while building a consensus for conservatives,” according to its website. The study’s authors, Jamie Bryan Hall, EPPC’s director of data analysis, … Read more