Their reviews of individual patient cases are not made public. But ProPublica obtained reports that confirm that at least two women have already died after they couldn’t access legal abortions and timely medical care in their state. There are almost certainly others. Committees like the one in Georgia, set up in each state, often operate … Read more
In Idaho and other states, draconian laws are forcing physicians to ignore their training and put patients’ lives at risk. Read more at The Atlantic
Since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade with the Dobbs decision, doctors on the frontlines have shared horror stories about how medical care for pregnant people has changed. Women are being pushed to have abortions later in pregnancy due to the barriers they have to overcome to access care. Women who can’t travel are … Read more
Millions of US women don’t have access to maternity care, report warns More than a third of US counties do not have a single medical birthing facility or the services of an obstetric clinician, causing health advocates to warn about the dangers of “maternity care deserts”, a new report says. Read more at The Guardian … Read more
According to US census projections, people of color are on par to be the majority by the middle of the century. With this imminent reality, the focus on controlling our fertility and denying us bodily autonomy is the age-old strategy of authoritarian, democracy-denying regimes. And to have a conservative-leaning supreme court that has proved that … Read more
The doctor didn’t want to accept that gap in her training. So she threw herself into the growing pool of doctors scrambling to find a clinic in another state willing to offer a few weeks of hands-on abortion instruction. It would take her two years to find, apply for and raise the funds to afford … Read more
A federal court judge in Alabama will soon answer a crucial question: In a state where abortion is illegal, can health care providers and advocates be punished for helping patients seek the procedure elsewhere? Read more at NBC News
Cadwallader added that issues like OBGYNs leaving the state and patients being airlifted to out-of-state hospitals will remain. “I think we’re going to see the transfers continue to happen,” she said. “I think we’re going to continue to lose OBGYNs and other doctors in our state.” Read more at Salon
The Supreme Court’s abortion ruling on Thursday is a narrow one that applies only to Idaho and sends a case back down to the appeals court. Confusion among doctors in states that have strict abortion bans remains widespread. Read more at National Public Radio, Inc.
Doctors can’t be prosecuted for providing emergency abortions if they act in “good faith,” state Attorney General Kris Mayes said Thursday. Read more at 19th News
