How states giving rights to fetuses could set up a national case on abortion Ziegler said each new law passed creates a cumulative effect. The more times a state recognizes a fetus as a person in one area of law, the easier it will be for lawyers to make the argument that it’s inconsistent that … Read more
A new report shows Idaho has lost 22% of its OBGYNs since Roe v. Wade was overturned in 2022 – that’s more than 1 in 5. Read more at OPB.org
‘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
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
“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
The Dobbs ruling has already led to a nascent surveillance state designed to enforce laws against abortion. Being in a relationship with someone who thinks a woman should not be able to decide whether to end a pregnancy is, for women in some states, a newly risky proposition. Social conservatives have also set their sights … Read more
New York Times reports conservative supreme court justice had no changes to 98-page draft of opinion that removed right to abortion Read more at The Guardian
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
The group found that 23 independently owned clinics closed this year, on top of the 42 that shuttered in 2022, leaving over a dozen states, mainly in the American south and midwest, without a single brick-and-mortar clinic that provides abortion. Read more at The Guardian
Liz Kirby, Monroe County Hospital’s CEO, said a physician shortage was behind the closing. After the Supreme Court decision overturning Roe v. Wade, some hospitals in states with strict abortion bans have warned that it could become harder to recruit OB-GYNs, though Kirby said she wasn’t aware of that as a factor in this case. Residency … Read more
