Abortion rights supporters say that it would protect telehealth providers as states increase efforts to target them.
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Prescribers Push to Keep Their Names Off Labels for Abortion Medication Read Post »
When the US Supreme Court decided to overrule Roe v. Wade three years ago, the ruling had sweeping consequences for public health, making pregnancy much riskier, leading to the preventable deaths of pregnant women, and causing a spike in infant mortality. Now, research suggests the country has also suffered hundreds of billions of dollars in […]
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The Costs of Restricting Abortion? More Than $130 Billion Per Year. Read Post »
Three years ago, in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, the Supreme Court’s conservative majority enabled states to severely restrict abortion or ban it outright. Since then, 17 states have enacted such limits; infant and maternal mortality have risen in many of them. But the impact of overturning Roe v. Wade extends far beyond medical catastrophes. It […]
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The International Provider Read Post »
Three years ago, in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, the Supreme Court’s conservative majority enabled states to severely restrict abortion or ban it outright. Since then, 17 states have enacted such limits; infant and maternal mortality have risen in many of them. But the impact of overturning Roe v. Wade extends far beyond medical […]
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Funder, Pilot, Survivor, Physician: Inside the Network Assisting Abortion Journeys Read Post »
An ultra-conservative federal judge in Texas has lobbed another hand grenade in his long-running battle to limit access to reproductive healthcare around the country—this time by vacating a privacy rule intended to shield abortion seekers and providers from criminal and civil state investigations. In a sweeping ruling late Wednesday, US District Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk of […]
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Texas Judge Throws Out Biden Rule Protecting Medical Privacy on Abortion Read Post »
The Minnesota shooter who killed a state lawmaker and her husband and wounded another legislator and his wife reportedly had a list containing dozens of other names, including abortion providers and advocates. Multiple news outlets, including CNN, ABC, and the Minnesota Star Tribune, have reported that the alleged shooter—57-year-old Vance Luther Boelter, who remains at […]
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Minnesota Shooter’s List Reportedly Included Abortion Providers and Advocates Read Post »
People who use Medicaid make up half of the total patient volume nationwide for the clinics’ health care services.
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GOP Budget Puts at Least 200 Planned Parenthood Clinics Nationwide at Risk Read Post »
Dr. Shelley Sella kept a journal from the very first day she got on a plane to go work for George Tiller, the third-trimester abortion provider who was assassinated in 2009. As the first woman to openly provide third-trimester abortions in the US, she spent nearly 20 years commuting from her home in California to […]
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A Doctor’s Impassioned Defense of Later Abortions Read Post »
The Trump administration’s rule change will create “fear and confusion” at hospitals across the country, critics noted.
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Trump White House Rescinds Emergency Abortion Care Rule Established by Biden Read Post »
Conservative think tanks are building a body of “research” meant to question the safety of the abortion pill.
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Abortion Opponents Are Using “Junk Science” Studies to Target Mifepristone Read Post »
Republican elected officials are trying to rollback passed measures and place restrictions on citizen-led initiatives.
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GOP State Lawmakers Are Attempting to Undermine Ballot Measures Passed by Voters Read Post »
To hear people in the anti-abortion movement tell it, the idea that human personhood begins at fertilization is as old as the Bible. But as abortion historian Mary Ziegler writes in her latest book, Personhood: The New Civil War Over Reproduction, the legal movement for fetal personhood only dates from the 1960s, when anti-abortion activists […]
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Forget Dobbs—The Personhood Movement Wants Much More Read Post »
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