She miscarried weeks after Roe fell. A delay in care changed her life.
Four years after the Dobbs decision, critics say medical exemptions in abortion bans are so vague they delay care. Read more at 19th News
Missouri
Misoprostol Could Be Next
Although untouched by the Fifth Circuit’s ruling, misoprostol is not necessarily immune to legal attacks. Louisiana’s lawsuit and parallel suits filed by Florida and Missouri argue that the Comstock Act—a dormant, 19th-century anti-obscenity statute that anti-abortion legal strategists have spent years working to resurrect—bars the mailing of any drug used to induce abortion. This reading … Read more
These states voted to protect abortion rights. Conservative lawmakers are not standing down
Legal battles over the measures are also raging in Arizona, Michigan, Montana, Nevada and Ohio. In some of these states, lawmakers have also introduced legislation that, experts say, would undercut the will of voters who passed the measures. Read more at The Guardian
Texas and Florida sue FDA in latest effort to restrict abortion pill access
In the lawsuit, filed late on Tuesday in federal court in Wichita Falls, Texas, the states’ Republican attorneys general argue that the FDA has failed to thoroughly evaluate the drug’s safety and effectiveness since its initial approval in 2000 and disregarded the risks to the women who take it. Read more at The Guardian
A Brand-New Trump Judge Will Hear the Right’s Latest Attack On Medication Abortion
After the Supreme Court decided that the doctors didn’t have standing to sue, the AGs amended their complaint in October 2024, adding the vile argument that telehealth prescriptions of mifepristone harmed the states because these prescriptions allow more teens to end unwanted pregnancies. In their eyes, state governments need to be able to force births to prevent “potentially ‘losing … Read more
Missouri Supreme Court order reinstates ‘de facto abortion ban’ across the state
The Missouri Supreme Court on Tuesday ordered a judge in Kansas City to lift an injunction that had blocked restrictions on abortion, a decision that upends access to the procedure six months after voters enshrined reproductive rights into the state constitution. Read more at 19th News
Missouri Republicans aim to repeal new amendment that protects abortion
Republican legislators approve ballot item that would again ban most abortions in Missouri Senate Minority Leader Doug Beck, D-St. Louis County, said Republicans were thumbing their noses at voters. “They again turned down the will of the Missouri voters, the will of the people, of what they wanted,” Beck said. Read more at St. Louis … Read more
‘Rolling Thunder’: Inside conservatives’ strategy to curb abortion pill access
Brittni Frederiksen, the associate director for Women’s Health Policy at the nonpartisan health care think tank KFF, is among those skeptical of the groups’ findings. She highlighted, for instance, that the report lists ectopic pregnancies — when an embryo implants outside the uterus — as an “adverse event” from the pills when the pills do … Read more
Missouri’s voters restored abortion rights. Their leaders are trying to overrule them.
Abortion opponents have sought before to connect abortion rights to gender-affirming care, including in the November election in Missouri. But this would be the first time a state attempted to outlaw both abortion and gender-affirming care in one constitutional amendment, at a moment when Republicans across the country, including President Donald Trump, have focused their … Read more
State lawmakers are weighing bills that would treat abortion as homicide
The bills, filed in Georgia, Idaho, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Missouri, South Carolina and Texas, stem from the Prenatal Equal Protection Act, model legislation crafted by the Texas-based advocacy group the Foundation to Abolish Abortion. Three similar bills were introduced in Indiana, North Dakota and Oklahoma but failed to pass in committee or on the floor … Read more