“This is the first law that a state has passed that has specifically tried to counteract another state’s shield laws,” said Marc Hearon, senior counsel for the Center for Reproductive Rights, who is defending Coeytaux. “All those provisions under this new law could be tested. It could be a bellwether.” Beyond an injunction, Rodriguez will … Read more
Legal battles over the measures are also raging in Arizona, Michigan, Montana, Nevada and Ohio. In some of these states, lawmakers have also introduced legislation that, experts say, would undercut the will of voters who passed the measures. Read more at The Guardian
To Jay, a win for Paxton would put patients in a risky place, forcing doctors and nurses to choose between “doing what is medically right, or doing what is politically ‘safe.’” “That is a dangerous place for any healthcare system to be,” Jay said, noting that “when politicians override clinicians, patients pay the price” through … Read more
It argues that the laws banning abortion in Arkansas – there are two virtually identical laws on the books – must be struck down because they violate the state constitution and its guarantee that people have the right to equality, life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. These anti-abortion laws, the lawsuit alleges, not only … Read more
Suit against Debra Lynch is latest from Texas’s Republican attorney general amid ongoing attacks on abortion pills Read more at The Guardian
The Department of Veterans Affairs can no longer provide abortions to veterans, including in cases of rape or incest, following a Department of Justice memo that found last week that the practice was not legally sound. Read more at The Guardian
The North Dakota supreme court revived the state’s abortion ban on Friday, once again making it a felony for doctors to perform the procedure except in medical emergencies or in some cases of rape or incest. Read more at The Guardian
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
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
