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Bill Kristol, a former Republican official for Presidents Ronald Reagan and George HW Bush, calls out Donald Trump for repeatedly and nonsensically saying women will simply stop thinking about abortion if he’s president again.
Amari Marsh spent 22 days in jail and faced 20 years to life in prison for a second trimester miscarriage that landed her in the hospital.
Donald Trump’s presidency led to the banning of abortion access for nearly 1/3rd of American women, which has led to the maimings and deaths of women for the simple fact that they were once pregnant.
The number of women who died during pregnancy or soon after increased 56% in Texas from 2019 to 2022.
The mundane-yet-dystopian details of Florida’s abortion bans from health practitioners
A second woman in Georgia has died for lack of abortion care in her state.
VP Kamala Harris will give a speech in Atlanta Friday “focused on the stories of two Georgia mothers whose deaths …show the consequences of the strict abortion bans passed by Republicans after Roe v. Wade was overturned.”
Investigating the office tasked with holding accountable hospitals that refuse or fail to treat pregnant women who need care.
A deep dive on exactly how the 1873 law known as “Comstock” could be used to ban abortion nationwide, without a vote in Congress.
VP Kamala Harris spoke about Amber Thurman, the 28-year-old Georgia mom who died of sepsis when an ER waited too long to remove fetal tissue, on the campaign trail today.
Staff in Louisiana hospitals “are doing timed drills, sprinting from patient rooms and through halls to the locked medicine closets where the drugs used for abortions, incomplete miscarriages and postpartum hemorrhaging will have to be kept — as newly categorized controlled substances — starting Oct. 1.”
Judge ruled that “broad guarantees of personal liberty in the constitution of this conservative, Republican-dominated state create a fundamental right to abortion before a fetus is viable.”
An overview of the triumphs and challenges faced in the now 10 states (!!!) that will be directly voting on abortion access this November.
Women in Texas say they were “denied abortion care for life-threatening ectopic pregnancies” and are “calling for investigations into the hospitals for violating federal law.”
Federal health records found “more than 100 pregnant women in medical distress who sought help from emergency rooms were turned away or negligently treated since 2022.”
Congressional Democrats found OBGYNs “are seeing more pregnant patients with dangerous medical complications two-plus years after the Supreme Court’s Dobbs decision, while at the same time receiving less training as residents about how to perform abortions.”
States have increased funding for antiabortion centers (which lie about health care options) by $500 million since Roe vs Wade was overturned
A study in JAMA Network Open finds (unsurprisingly) that reports of self-managed abortions have increased 40%
Louisiana’s legislature is considering making the abortion pill medications the same as narcotic drugs, criminalizing the “possession of two medications used to induce abortion without a prescription, with punishments including prison time.”
An analysis from the Society for Family Planning found that every month about 8,000 women living in states with strict abortion restrictions got abortion pills via mail by the end of 2023.