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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.
Three political science professors surveyed over 1,300 Americans about pregnancy dating.
Senate Democrats called out Republicans for proposing a federal pregnancy database.
American support for abortion reached its highest level ever, with 63% of people saying abortion should be legal in all or most cases.
Florida’s state health care agency tried to push back on the fact that many women do not know they are pregnant at six weeks gestation, since it is only two weeks after a missed period for a woman on a very regular menstrual cycle.
For the second year in a row the number of applicants to residency programs dropped in states that have abortion bans in place.
The third time was the charm for Arizona state House Democrats, who got three Republicans to join them in repealing the 1864 total abortion ban that was set to go into effect in the coming weeks.
Supreme Court justices seemed split mainly along ideological lines during oral arguments over a federal requirement that hospitals provide emergency care to stabilize a patient, including abortions when necessary.
A progressive group, Campaign for Accountability, sent letters to state attorneys general in Idaho, Minnesota, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Washington.
The Washington Post has more horror stories of women getting turned away from the ER because they are pregnant, and extreme state abortion bans have scared providers.
The AP has the dystopian details on what pregnant women face in America after Roe: “One woman miscarried in the lobby restroom of a Texas emergency room as front desk staff refused to check her in.”