In interviews with seven doctors who worked in Arkansas, all said that no hospitals allow doctors to provide abortions for patients with “inevitable miscarriage” or PPROM without signs of infection. Dr. Dina Epstein, an OB-GYN in Little Rock, said she and her colleagues see cases like Waldorf’s often. They are always excruciating. Her patients often … Read more
When looking at the study, Jensen said it is particularly “concerning” to see that abortion ban states saw a decline in use of mifepristone, which “reflects growing access disparities between restricted and non-restricted states, which could further widen existing disparities in maternal mortality and morbidity.” Jensen added that patients are put at an increased risk … Read more
Across the country, abortion bans appear to have made it harder for people experiencing miscarriages to receive appropriate treatment — or even receive treatment at all — a new study suggests. Read more at 19th News
An advocacy organization representing US veterans has filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration over the reinstatement of a ban on abortion services and counseling for veterans and their dependents facing certain pregnancy-related dangers and circumstances. Read more at The Guardian
Abortion providers and advocates are making plans for future disruptions to reproductive care after the US supreme court temporarily continued nationwide access to mail-order mifepristone on Thursday while several legal challenges wind their way through the lower courts. Read more at The Guardian
Last week, as they awaited word from the high court about the fate of telehealth abortions, anti-abortion activists secured a closed-door meeting with Justice Department officials. There, they pushed the agency to revive a long dormant policy that could cut off virtually all access to both mifepristone and misoprostol — an 1800s-era anti-vice law known … Read more
The state argued it has a legal right to sue because, among other reasons, the FDA’s policy allowing medication abortion to be sent through the mail impinges on the state’s “sovereignty.” The hypocrisy is thick, Flaxman says, since the lower court’s decision didn’t just end the mailing of mifepristone to residents of Louisiana, but to … Read more
Although untouched by the Fifth Circuit’s ruling, misoprostol is not necessarily immune to legal attacks. Louisiana’s lawsuit and parallel suits filed by Florida and Missouri argue that the Comstock Act—a dormant, 19th-century anti-obscenity statute that anti-abortion legal strategists have spent years working to resurrect—bars the mailing of any drug used to induce abortion. This reading … Read more
But the state-by-state patchwork of women’s rights remains an untenable reality, and the ferocity of the anti-choice movement’s misogyny has not been abated. The Supreme Court has kicked the can down the road, perhaps hoping to keep the issue’s salience to a minimum ahead of the elections. But this uneasy political settlement over abortion access … Read more
The case, Louisiana v. FDA, is just the latest right-wing assault on the abortion drug since Dobbs was handed down. It is indispensable to the true anti-abortion mission, which was never to leave it to the states, but to force all pregnant women in the United States to give birth. Read more at Talking Points … Read more
