The landscape for Texans with unintended pregnancies has completely changed. While some successfully got an abortion in a clinic — either in their home state, or after traveling hundreds of miles to another — countless other did not. Some tried to induce abortions at home with medication abortion. Still others carried their unwanted pregnancies to … Read more
“Even prior to the fall of Roe, for communities of color, including the Asian American Pacific Islander community, the right to abortion never guaranteed access,” she said. “You think about a mother, somebody that works a low-wage job that doesn’t allow for paid leave, who may not have status and who may need to travel … Read more
This week, two federal judges reached opposite conclusions about the conflict. At the behest of the Biden administration, Judge B. Lynn Winmill blocked the Idaho law. EMTALA, he noted, “demands abortion care to prevent injuries that are more wide-ranging than death.” The Idaho law requires that doctors allow their patients’ conditions to deteriorate disastrously before … Read more
She says she couldn’t fully face the trauma from her experience for many years — after she became a mother, and watched her own daughter turn 11. “A lot of my grief was really realizing what it must have been like for my mother to go through something like that,” Elaine says. Elaine spent a … Read more
“How close to death is close enough?” Johnson asked. “Extremist anti-abortion politicians in Texas are trying to prevent pregnant people experiencing medical emergencies from receiving life-saving care, despite the fact that federal law requires most hospitals to provide that treatment. Politicians may think they know better than doctors, but doctors should not have to try … Read more
Steven Mazie, who covers the Supreme Court for The Economist, suggested the cases could hinge on “what counts as a medical emergency.” “I can’t believe in a matter of months we’ve gone from losing the constitutional right to abortion to debating whether doctors can provide lifesaving care to patients,” said Kate Smith, senior director of … Read more
On Tuesday, a Texas judge ruled that Biden administration guidance asserting that doctors must perform abortions in emergencies — regardless of state bans — is illegitimate overreach and that the federal law underlying the guidance does not limit the state’s new trigger ban. A day later, an Idaho judge ruled just the opposite: that the state’s … Read more
Siding with the two groups of anti-abortion physicians as well as the state of Texas, Hendrix writes that the HHS guidance requiring physicians to act when the woman’s health is at risk is too generous. Read more at Talking Points Memo
Slew of trigger laws kick in as three more US states ban abortions “Evidence is already mounting of women being turned away despite needing urgent, and in some cases life-saving, medical care. This unfolding public health crisis will only continue to get worse. We will see more and more of these harrowing situations, and once … Read more
“Abortion bans go against health,” Hernández said. “What happened to my daughter can now happen in the United States” after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade and opened the door for states to outlaw abortions. “This is monstrous.” Read more at NBC News
