Some lawmakers have tried to introduce carve-outs to abortion bans for minors but have faced pushback in conservative states. In May 2024, a legislative committee in Louisiana rejected a bill that would have added cases of rape and incest as exceptions to Louisiana’s abortion ban. They also rejected an amendment brought by the Democratic state … Read more
Nearly 65,000 US rape victims could not get an abortion in their state, analysis shows The data demonstrates that abortion bans likely make it impossible for most victims of rape to obtain abortions in their home states, even for the minority of people who live in states with exemptions for rape, researchers said. Read more … Read more
The lawsuit, filed Friday in Indianapolis federal court, marked Attorney General Todd Rokita’s latest attempt to seek disciplinary legal action against Dr. Caitlin Bernard. Read more at NBC News
In Texas, doctors are “speaking in code” to their patients about leaving the state for abortions – frightened not just out of performing the procedures, but out of giving true, medically useful information about them. The extremism of the anti-abortion movement has not just eliminated women’s freedom of choice; it is increasingly curtailing their freedom … Read more
A 10-year-old Ohio rape victim got an abortion. Now her doctor is being punished. The decision to punish Bernard has left physicians across the country “afraid of getting in the crosshairs of politicians in their state and feeling that they could be next,” she said. That applies in the context of abortion, but also when … Read more
In the lawsuit, Dr. Caitlin Bernard and her medical partner claim that state Attorney General Todd Rokita has been issuing subpoenas to healthcare facilities for some of their patients’ records, based on complaints from people who are not their patients and may live out of state. Rokita “took the additional step of issuing sweepingly broad … Read more
