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Dobbs – Page 7 – No Rights To Speak Of

States push ‘fetal personhood’ bills despite outrage at Alabama IVF ruling

As of 2022, at least 11 states – including Alabama – have what Pregnancy Justice identified as “extremely broad personhood language that could be read to affect all state laws, civil and criminal”, according to a brief by the organization. “Those are the ones that really have the power in their language itself to increase … Read more

The anti-abortion playbook for restricting birth control

Still, a growing number of Republican lawmakers — including Sens. Marsha Blackburn and Mike Braun — have recently declared that Griswold v. Connecticut, the 1965 Supreme Court decision establishing a constitutional right to birth control, was wrongly decided. Griswold relies on the same legal right to privacy that underpinned Roe, and in his concurring Dobbs … Read more

Fallout from the Alabama IVF decision – news round-up

‘My embryos aren’t safe here’: US patients struggling with infertility scramble after Alabama IVF ruling Alabama has long been a laboratory for fetal personhood measures. Between 1973 and 2022, when the US supreme court overturned Roe v Wade, Alabama law enforcement criminalized nearly 700 people for allegedly endangering “unborn life” – a record number of … Read more

US single people under 50 having less sex since Roe overturned, study finds

On Wednesday, Match Group, which operates Tinder, Hinge and a slew of other matchmaking platforms, released the latest findings from its long-running Singles in America survey, a snapshot of more than 5,000 single Americans’ thoughts and experiences around dating and sex. For the second year in a row, Match has found that the demolition of … Read more

Biden hammers Trump on abortion, warns about underestimating women voters

“Make no mistake: the person most responsible for taking away this freedom in America is Donald Trump,” Biden said. “Trump says he’s proud that he overturned Roe v. Wade. He says, and I quote, ‘There has to be punishment’ of a woman exercising her reproductive freedom. He described the decision as a ‘miracle’ for American … Read more

Abortion delays have grown more common in the U.S. since Roe vs. Wade was overturned

A woman whose fetus was unlikely to survive called more than a dozen abortion clinics before finding one that would take her, only to be put on weeks-long waiting lists. A teen waited seven weeks for an abortion because it took her mother that long to get her an appointment. Others seeking the procedure faced … Read more