Project 2025, the Heritage Foundation’s guidebook for Republican control of the presidency and Congress, is, unsurprisingly, coming for abortion rights. But in a new twist, they want to use a key disability rights law to do it. In Project 2025’s plan for the Department of Health and Human Services, Roger Severino, a former Trump administration … Read more
In addition to cutting funding for the Office on Women’s Health, this year’s Republican budget would fully eliminate the Title X Family Planning Program, the Teen Pregnancy Prevention Program, and Healthy Start, the federal program meant to address infant mortality. Read more at Rolling Stone
“It was ridiculous when the court said two years ago that overruling Roe was going to get the court out of the business of abortion,” said Leah Litman, a professor at the University of Michigan School of Law. “There’s an entire new frontier of abortion litigation that’s going to make its way to the court … Read more
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.
SCOTUS Sheepishly Admits It Shouldn’t Have Taken Emergency Abortion Case The embarrassing reversal — which was accidentally disclosed a day early when it was “inadvertently and briefly uploaded” to the Supreme Court’s website — plainly indicated a growing rift at the court: the three liberal justices, who see this case as a very simple one; three … Read more
No matter how the high court rules, medical groups say there will continue to be widespread fear and confusion in states with abortion bans about whether and when they can treat patients in emergencies, noting that the stories of Texas patient Kate Cox and Indiana OB-GYN Caitlin Bernard have especially fueled the chilling effect. Read … Read more
For Manian, the confluence of the pair of abortion cases underlines two critical truths: that the anti-abortion movement will not stop until it has achieved a total abortion ban nationwide, and that by tearing up the right to an abortion, the supreme court has created a legal mess that is likely to dog it for … Read more
A letter signed by physicians from all 50 states asks the high court to uphold a federal law called EMTALA, which is being challenged by the state of Idaho. Read more at 19th News
Since Trump and Republican lawmakers built their Supreme Court conservative supermajority, the justices have issued increasingly radical decisions. The Dobbs decision in 2022 allowed states to ban abortion; this term, the court could limit access to the abortion pill mifepristone, and justices could also allow states to bar hospitals from providing emergency abortion care necessary … Read more
