Doctors have kept Adriana Smith on breathing machines for three months due to the state’s “heartbeat law.”
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GA Abortion Ban Forces Family to Keep Woman Declared Brain Dead on Life Support Read Post »
In the early morning hours on Thursday, after an all-night session of tense negotiations, House Republicans narrowly passed President Donald Trump’s sweeping domestic policy package. In addition to the largest cuts to Medicaid in US history, the bill contains provisions that have alarmed health care advocates since they first showed up in earlier versions of […]
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Republicans Snuck Two Devastating Health Care Measures Into Trump’s Megabill Read Post »
Monday marked 90 days from February 18—the day President Donald Trump signed an executive order that falsely claimed to fulfill a campaign promise to expand access to in vitro fertilization, also known as IVF. In reality, all the executive order actually did was commission a relatively low-level Trump administration official to submit to the president […]
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Trump Still Hasn’t Produced Plans to Make IVF More Accessible Read Post »
In November 2023, while an abortion provider in the South was on vacation, someone broke into their home, shattered the windows, and scribbled “Baby Killer” on a whiteboard. The case is still open. That same year, a man crashed his car into a new abortion clinic in Danville, Illinois, trying to start a fire. A […]
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Report: Abortion Providers Are Confronting a New Wave of Extremism Read Post »
Earlier this month, the Trump administration scored seemingly positive headlines when it asked a federal court to dismiss a case brought by three Republican states seeking to restrict telehealth access to mifepristone, the first of two drugs used in a medication abortion. Several news outlets claimed in headlines that the administration would “defend” access to […]
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RFK Jr. Is Coming for Abortion Pills Read Post »
The contentious plan to defund Planned Parenthood, included in the Republican-backed reconciliation bill that would slash millions in Medicaid funding, would cost taxpayers $300 million over the next decade, according to a leaked preliminary estimate compiled by the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO). The news comes as House Republicans have doubled down on the proposal […]
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The GOP’s Plan to Defund Planned Parenthood Would Add $300 Million to the Deficit Read Post »
Explicit criminal liability for the person who obtains an abortion is a hallmark of all the bills.
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Legislators in 13 States Have Introduced 15 “Abortion Abolition” Bills in 2025 Read Post »
If successful, their efforts could provide a model for other states where voters have recently protected the procedure.
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Missouri GOP Is Trying to Undo Abortion Rights Enshrined by Popular Vote Read Post »
The law “cannot create a healthy home environment where one doesn’t already exist,” an abortion advocacy group noted.
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Judge Blocks Nevada Parental Notification Law for Minors Seeking Abortions Read Post »
Post-“Roe,” pregnancy outcomes — and even actions taken to help pregnant people — face escalating criminalization.
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Abortion Bans Criminalize People — and Not Just Those Who Are Pregnant Read Post »
New data released this week reaffirmed a seemingly paradoxical reality of the post-Roe v. Wade era: Abortion rates have continued to rise despite the increasing restrictions nationwide. The latest data, compiled by the abortion rights research and policy organization the Guttmacher Institute, shows that throughout 2024, clinicians provided more than one million abortions in states […]
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Abortions Are Rising—Even After Dobbs. A New Book Explains Why. Read Post »
Last month, during an Indiana state legislative hearing, Republican Sen. Jeff Raatz from Richmond, a small city in the eastern part of the state, discussed a resolution he filed declaring that the state’s general assembly “strongly supports pregnancy care centers in their unique, positive contributions to the individual lives of women, men, and babies—both born […]
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Lawmakers Are Trying to Hold Crisis Pregnancy Centers to Account Read Post »
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