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Anti-Abortion Officials Continue Deputizing Angry Men To Turn Over Their Partners In New Legal Foray

“It’s giving away the game: It has been about, all this time, men controlling women, and they’re not even pretending anymore,” Jessie Hill, associate dean and reproductive rights scholar at Case Western Reserve University School of Law, told TPM. Read more at Talking Points Memo

Texas sues New York doctor for providing abortion pills via telemedicine

Texas sues New York doctor for telemedicine prescription of abortion pills In the lawsuit, filed Thursday in Collin County, Paxton said that Margaret Daley Carpenter, a New York doctor, provided mifepristone and misoprostol, a pair of abortion-inducing drugs, to a 20-year-old pregnant woman there, which led to a medical abortion. “Carpenter’s conduct violates the Texas … Read more

Abortion Pills Have Changed the Post-Roe Calculus

Anti-abortion groups could also test the limits of shield laws in more indirect ways. In Texas, says John Seago, the president of Texas Right to Life, pro-abortion groups have put up billboards advertising abortion pills: “You can go to people putting up the billboard. That’s aiding and abetting.” His group has also encouraged Texas lawmakers … Read more

Republicans are using old talking points to demonize abortion — but are they landing?

Confronted with polling that shows access to abortion remains a key issue for voters, anti-abortion activists and GOP leaders are making a final pre-Election Day push to paint Democratic nominee Kamala Harris as an extremist on the issue, and abortion as unsafe. and “Strategically, they’re going in two directions,” said Greer Donley, a law professor … Read more

Inside a medical practice sending abortion pills to states where they’re banned

“These websites are breaking the law … aiding and abetting crimes in Texas,” says John Seago, the president of Texas Right to Life. “We want to use all the instruments that we have, all the tools available, to really fight against this new trend of abortion pills by mail.” Seago says providers should still be … Read more

‘A battle to the death’: The next abortion cases en route to the Supreme Court

“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