Tag: Abortion
Fearing Legal Threats, Doctors Are Performing C-Sections in Lieu of Abortions
Some physicians are doing unnecessary and invasive surgery on pregnant patients “to preserve the appearance of not doing an abortion.”
Surgeons performing a “classic cesarean section.”
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When news that Lizelle Gonzalez was suing the local prosecutor’s office for more than $1 million in damages, after being falsely imprisoned for murder over an attempted self-managed abortion in 2022, reproductive rights advocates cheered the move as a pathway to justice for the wrongfully charged southern
The Forced-Birthers Finally Went Too Far Even for This Supreme Court
A majority of the justices seemed highly skeptical of the ridiculous legal case against mifepristone.
Demonstrators outside the US Supreme Court in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday, March 26, 2024.
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There are a series of big lies at the heart of the conservative push to ban mifepristone, one of the two key drugs used to induce a medical abortion. The first lie is that pregnant people who take the pill are injured
One of the Last Abortion Doctors in Indiana
Inside a generic government-office conference room in downtown Indianapolis, Caitlin Bernard sat before six members of Indiana’s Medical Licensing Board, whose cases typically involve complaints against physicians who bilked a patient or drove while drunk. But at this hearing the subject was the intricacies of patient-privacy rules. In the aftermath of the Supreme Court’s ruling in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, a reporter had overheard Bernard tell a fellow-doctor that a ten-year-old girl from Ohio was coming to Indianapolis
Will a Florida Ballot Measure to Protect Abortion Shake Up the State’s Politics This November?
From “Don’t Say Gay” to Abortion Bans, There’s a New Pronatalism Afoot
A not-so-personal opinion on access to abortion in France – Euractiv
Editorial word: A not-so-personal opinion on access to abortion in France
By Clara Bauer-Babef
The story got off to a rather good start almost a year ago. On March 8th 2023, International Women’s Day, French President Emmanuel Macron said he was in favour of enshrining the right to abortion in constitutional law, making France the first country in the EU – and in the world – to do so.
The news was welcomed by feminist associations and left-wing political parties
As Costs and Demand Skyrocket, Abortion Funds Struggle to Keep Up
How Ohio Passed the Highest-Stakes Abortion Rights Law Since “Roe” Fell
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November 29, 2023
The state is now firmly held by Republicans, but organizers found a way to reach voters who are appalled by the overturning of Roe v. Wade.
Jen Perez knows what it’s like to grow up in what she calls “a very typical Midwest, religious, Republican family.” Talking critically about politics, hashing out issues, and asking probing questions
Abortion Wins Elections for Democrats. What Should Advocates Demand in Return?
Dobbs’s Confounding Effect on Abortion Rates
When the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, Diana Greene Foster made a painful prediction: She estimated that one in four women who wanted an abortion wouldn’t be able to get one. Foster, a demographer at UC San Francisco, told me that she’d based her expectation on her knowledge of how abortion rates decline when women lose insurance coverage or have to travel long distances after clinics close.
And she was well aware of what this statistic meant. She’d