With an election looming, activists and providers worry that this could soon change: Under the strange rules governing the capital, Congress can simply ignore the locals and enact municipal laws, meaning a Republican trifecta could quickly lead to a D.C. ban. That’s what some anti-abortion organizations are calling for. And while Donald Trump now says … Read more
As much as Sen. Mike Lee may deny Republicans are coming after birth control, the pattern is clear. Democrats offer Republicans one chance after another to vote for birth control rights, and every time, Republicans vote against it. Increasingly, major MAGA leaders are admitting out loud that they are coming for birth control. Read more … Read more
“If I didn’t get an abortion, it would put a future pregnancy at risk. But Trump didn’t care, and because of his abortion bans I had to flee my home,” Cox said from the convention floor. “There’s nothing pro-family about abortion bans. There’s nothing pro-life about letting women suffer and even die.” Read more at … Read more
“A second Trump term would rip away even more of our rights: passing a national abortion ban, letting states monitor pregnancies and prosecute doctors, restricting birth control and fertility treatments,” Zurawski said on Monday night. “We cannot let that happen. We need to vote as if lives depend on it — because they do.” Read … Read more
Trump said he wouldn’t rule out banning access to mifepristone when asked by NBC News last week whether he would consider such a step. Read more at NBC News
The Alliance Defending Freedom, a right-wing group behind many high-profile abortion challenges (including the one to mifepristone), giddily listed in a brief for that case the abortion rights and protections for women and LGBTQ Americans that may be open to attack in a Chevron-less world. They included the lifting of mifepristone restrictions, the government’s reading … Read more
Pregnant women are being denied care in emergency rooms, AP report finds According to the analysis, more than 100 pregnant women who sought help from emergency rooms have been turned away or negligently treated since 2022. Two women, one in Florida and one in Texas, had to miscarry in public restrooms. In a separate Texas … Read more
Both say the hospitals denied them appropriate stabilizing medical care, which hospitals that accept federal Medicare funding are required to do under the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act, also known as EMTALA. Read more at 19th News
Some lawmakers have tried to introduce carve-outs to abortion bans for minors but have faced pushback in conservative states. In May 2024, a legislative committee in Louisiana rejected a bill that would have added cases of rape and incest as exceptions to Louisiana’s abortion ban. They also rejected an amendment brought by the Democratic state … Read more
Ralph’s study, based on surveys given to different groups of women around the country in 2021 and 2023, found that the most common methods women reported using for self-managed abortions were herbs, emergency contraception, alcohol and drugs, and even self-harm, including hitting themselves in the stomach. Read more at NBC News
