Texas man files legal action to investigate ex-partner’s alleged out-of-state abortion “It’s not enough for Texas to ban abortion,” she said. “They truly want to trap people in their state, pregnant, and the purpose of this is to frighten people to make them think there might be repercussions for doing things that are perfectly legal. … Read more
Texas and Arkansas have similar laws. It’s impossible to know how often women are unable to leave marriages due to pregnancy. Some people may not even try to file for divorce because of the law; as in Destonee’s case, lawyers might simply tell them to come back when they’re not pregnant. Read more at National … Read more
Supreme Court wrestles with abortion clash over emergency room treatment for pregnant women The Biden administration says Idaho’s near-total abortion ban conflicts with a federal law setting standards for hospital emergency room care. Read more at NBC News US supreme court appears divided after hearing arguments on emergency abortion care “If a woman comes to … Read more
Cases listed in federal documents raise alarms around emergency pregnancy care, especially in states with strict abortion laws Read more at The Guardian
She points out that Floridians who are seeking abortions after six weeks will have to travel nearly 600 miles to North Carolina, which has a 72-hour waiting period. “So we’re talking about a day’s drive to a state that requires you to engage in this multi-day process,” Myers says. “A lot of people might end … 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 the nearly two years since the US supreme court overturned Roe v Wade, 16 states have implemented near-total abortion bans. In theory, these bans have exceptions that permit people to get medically necessary abortions – but in practice, doctors and patients say, these exceptions are worded so vaguely that they are unworkable, prompting doctors … Read more
As the couple continued to recount memories of the pregnancy, text on the screen read, “Because Donald Trump killed Roe v. Wade, Amanda was denied standard medical care to prevent infection, an abortion.” Doctors were forced to send Amanda home and three days later, Amanda wound up in the ICU with sepsis, according to the … Read more
Lizelle Gonzalez says she suffered harm from two nights in jail and being identified as a murder suspect before charges were dropped Read more at The Guardian
In her statement, Zurawski criticised press coverage of Trump’s remarks, saying: “Trump isn’t ‘signaling’, he isn’t ‘suggesting’, he isn’t ‘leaning toward’ anything – he is actively planning to ban abortion nationwide if he’s elected, inflicting the same cruelty and chaos I’ve experienced on the entire country. Read more at The Guardian
