Texas judge says states can revive challenge to abortion pill access nationwide The American Civil Liberties Union said the case should have been settled when the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously preserved access to mifepristone. Kacsmaryk’s decision “has left the door open for extremist politicians to continue attacking medication abortion in his courtroom,” the ACLU said. … Read more
Federal judge in Texas rules 3 other states can challenge access to abortion pill mifepristone nationwide The states want the federal Food and Drug Administration to prohibit telehealth prescriptions for mifepristone and require that it be used only in the first seven weeks of pregnancy instead of the current limit of 10 weeks. They also want to … Read more
Kansas providers performed a historic number of abortions in 2023 – and most of them were performed on out-of-state residents – in a sign of just how much the 2022 overturning of Roe v Wade has rewritten the map of abortion access and led women to flee their home states for the procedure. and Abortion … Read more
“Really the greater push has been to really seek to restrict a lot of different types of sexual and reproductive health care. And one of the ways to do that is by establishing personhood in the law,” she said. Read more at National Public Radio, Inc.
According to public records produced at Rolling Stone’s request, Idaho has partnered with ADF on at least four separate lawsuits recently: U.S. v. State of Idaho (concerning whether the state’s abortion ban violates the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act), Poe v. Labrador (the gender-affirming care case), State of Washington et al. v. United States … Read more
The conflict, as the government points out, is that the law requires doctors to perform an emergency abortion if necessary to prevent a patient’s condition from deteriorating or to protect her from potentially severe or permanent injury. Idaho law forbids an abortion unless it’s necessary to avert a patient’s death. Doctors caught in this vise … Read more
In Ohio, Kansas and Michigan, for example, where abortion rights advocates won major victories in ballot measures over the past two years, anti-abortion groups and lawmakers are now turning their focus to blocking implementation of the initiatives by proposing bills and threatening lawsuits that would restrict the reproductive rights those elections protected. Read more at … Read more
Other rules, they say, needlessly complicate the process of getting an abortion to the point that it interferes with patients’ constitutional right to bodily autonomy. Patients must correctly print and sign a consent form 24 hours before their appointment — on white paper, in black ink, in 12-point Times New Roman font. As many as … Read more
Doctors told her she might die but she couldn’t have an abortion under state law until she got sicker, documents show. The Biden administration says failing to act violates a federal law requiring hospitals to provide emergency care. Read more at Pro Publica
Feds: Hospitals that denied emergency abortion broke the law “It was dehumanizing. It was terrifying. It was horrible not to get the care to save your life,” Farmer, who lives in Joplin, said of her experience. “I felt like I was responsible to do something, to say something, to not have this happen again to … Read more
