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Some states are turning miscarriages and stillbirths into criminal cases against women

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States across the country have been using a series of laws and court rulings in the past decade to criminalize how women react to pregnancy loss. Legal experts say the fear and suspicion following the Supreme Court’s decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization that allowed states to ban abortion may be making things … Read more

“I cannot vote for someone like that”: Ohio women voters fume at Bernie Moreno’s abortion “joke”

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“While Sherrod stands with the majority of Ohioans who believe that a woman has the right to make her own health care decisions, Moreno has made it clear he thinks he knows better,” campaign spokesperson Maggie Amjad told Salon in a statement. “Moreno went so far as to mock Ohio women for caring about this … Read more

More abortion ballot measures are set to pass. Then state courts will have their say.

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In Arizona, progressive groups are holding events and knocking on doors to make GOP-appointed state Supreme Court Justices Clint Bolick and Kathryn King the first in state history to lose a retention vote by reminding voters the pair ruled this year to uphold an 1864 law criminalizing nearly all abortions. Read more at Politico

Trump and Ohio GOP senate candidate Moreno – women are crazy and need to be protected, so that they stop thinking about abortion

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Trump, contending with unpopular GOP abortion bans, turns focus to women Hours before the North Carolina rally, shortly after midnight, Trump had written on his social media site Truth Social in an 181-word, all-caps post that women are less healthy, less safe, and more depressed and unhappy than they were when he was president. He … Read more

Abortion opponents are working to upend implementation of state ballot measures

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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

Reproductive rights group urges Ohio prosecutor to drop criminal charge against woman who miscarried

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Beene said Ohio Physicians for Reproductive Rights fears the case will deter other women from seeking miscarriage care. The organization also shared its letter, dated Dec. 15, with the Warren mayor, law director and city council members, in hopes of building support for dropping charges against Watts. Read more at The Hill  

Black Ohio woman’s arrest after pregnancy loss begs the question, ‘What do you do after a miscarriage?’

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Despite expert testimony advocating the pregnancy was not viable, the case went viral this weekend when a judge decided that she will face a grand jury. This is another story contributing to the trend of pregnancy-related criminalization continuing across the country. Read more at Cleveland.com