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One organization got requests for 5,000 pills in less than 12 hours. They typically ship 9,000 pills in an entire month.
Combing through the data to explain why most late term abortions happen (hint: it’s fetal anomalies and not convenience.)
Josseli Barnica was excited to be pregnant with her second child but suffered a miscarriage at 17 weeks. Instead of helping the miscarriage progress, doctors let her suffer for 40 hours because her fetus still had a heartbeat.
“They said ‘we think it’s very inappropriate for you to say so.’ I said ‘Why? I’m president, I want to protect the women.’”
This is a story that captures the moral challenges and nuance that arise when you mix the law and pregnancy.
A profile of Dr. Gabrielle Goodrick, a family medicine doctor and owner of a clinic in Arizona that performs abortions.
The New York Times analyzed over 600 speeches (!!!) from Donald Trump on abortion and shows visually just how much his rhetoric has changed.
Groups that help cover the cost of abortions and the travel required to leave abortion ban states say they are limiting expenditures.
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.
Over 200 women faced criminal charges for charges associated with pregnancy between June 2022 and 2023, the most cases seen by Pregnancy Justice in decades of tracking.
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
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.”
A second woman in Georgia has died for lack of abortion care in her state.
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.