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During over 3 hours of oral arguments on Monday, a seeming majority of Supreme Court justices appeared receptive to blocking a Texas law that essentially bans abortion after 6 weeks. They seemed less certain about whether the federal government — which is also challenging the law — was within its rights to sue Texas. Senate […]
My daughter was 10 when I first told her about my abortion. We had just seen Broadway’s Spring Awakening which, as far as musicals go, constitutes a crash course in sex-ed. Rape, masturbation, incest, and abortion are all part of the plot. I had been wanting to talk to her about my abortion for a […]
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — The Illinois Senate voted Tuesday to repeal a law requiring that parents or guardians be notified when girls younger than 18 are seeking an abortion. Building on momentum among abortion-rights activists after September’s Texas “heartbeat” law banned most abortions, Democrats who control the General Assembly want to dump the 1995 law […]
Gov. Gavin Newsom's covid-19 rules have been a lightning rod in California's recall election. But there's a lot more at stake for Californians' health care than mask and vaccine mandates. Newsom, a first-term Democrat, argues that their fundamental ability to get health insurance and medical treatments is on the line. Republicans are seeking to "take […]
SIOUX FALLS, SD (AP) — A federal judge Friday ruled against South Dakota’s attempt to lift a decade-old injunction that nullified part of a state law requiring women to consult with a crisis pregnancy center before having an abortion. Planned Parenthood sued the state in 2011 after lawmakers passed a law requiring a three-day wait […]
TOPEKA, Kan. — The number of abortions performed in Kansas increased by 9.1% last year as far more women traveled from Oklahoma and Texas to terminate pregnancies than in 2019 and the state reported that out-of-state patients outnumbered Kansas patients for the first time in almost 50 years. The state Department of Health and Environment […]
The coronavirus pandemic has widened existing gaps in access to abortion services across Europe, finds a review of country-wide policy changes in response to COVID-19, published in the journal BMJ Sexual & Reproductive Health. But enforced innovations adopted in some countries, such as telemedicine and the provision of abortion at home, could reverse that trend […]
How to feel women after an abortion? In the USA, a study in the journal “Social Science & is; Medicine” appeared. The result: Five years after a termination of pregnancy the majority of women rated the intervention as a right decision. The study is important, because opponents of abortion cite again and again the alleged […]
Here's some news about abortion that you may have missed: the US abortion rate reached an all-time low in 2017. At 13.5 abortions per 1,000 women ages 15 to 44, it’s the lowest level since the Supreme Court legalized abortion in its pivotal 1973 Roe v. Wade decision. Also in 2017, the number of early medication abortions rose […]
Artist Plastic Jesus is using his following to protest new abortion laws – by placing these coat hangers labelled as ‘at-home abortion kits’ in pharmacies across the U.S.. He staged the stunt with the help of over 50 volunteers, placing around 200 white wire coat hangers in stores last weekend. In a statement on his […]