But because there was still fetal cardiac activity, the doctors sent Zurawski home to get sick enough to qualify for an abortion under Texas’s ban. The law permits the procedure only when a patient would otherwise lose “major bodily function” or die. It doesn’t say when that might be. And it makes no allowance for … Read more
Kristen Anaya was told she must be on the cusp of death before doctors would give a life-saving abortion Read more at The Guardian
The Texas Supreme Court also said that as “painful as such circumstances are,” referring to fatal fetal anomalies, “the law does not authorize abortions for diagnosed fetal conditions absent a life-threatening complication to the mother does not render it unconstitutional.” Read more at Salon
The Charlotte Lozier Institute wants to arm the anti-abortion movement with science, but critics say its research is flawed. Read more at NBC News
Donald Trump is courting a Christian advocacy organization that wants to ban all abortions and calls the procedure “child sacrifice,” a stringent position that contradicts his own less restrictive approach and stated intention to let states decide the issue. Trump is scheduled to make a virtual appearance Monday at an event hosted by the Danbury … Read more
A controversial provision in the spending bill would prohibit the Department of Veterans Affairs from offering abortion counseling and, in some cases, abortion procedures to veterans and their beneficiaries. It overturns a Biden administration rule that allows the VA to provide abortion care when the life or health of the mother is in danger or … Read more
Miller, who ultimately received a single fetal abortion and give birth to a healthy son, said she’s not confused about the former president’s positions when it comes to women and reproductive rights. Trump won’t make America great, she said, but he will make it more like Texas, subjecting millions more Americans to the sort of … Read more
“There are cases where a minor might not feel safe telling their parents they need abortion care. It could be an abusive family situation,” she said. “It could be any number of circumstances that make it feel unsafe for a 17-year-old to go to her parents, but maybe she has a big sister who can … Read more
During his last campaign for Congress, Kent made the slavery analogy more than once. In 2022, his opponent, Marie Gluesenkamp Perez, shared a screenshot in which a high school student DMed her to say that Kent had made a similar argument when visiting their school. The student wrote: “Joe Kent came to my high school … Read more
Even though the plaintiffs suing for the right to flunk female students for abortion include boilerplate arguments in which they feign concern that abortion is “killing,” the legal filing makes it clear that what really outrages Bonevac and Hatfield is that Title IX prevents them from controlling the private lives of students. Along with their … Read more
