31 posts tagged ‘abortion’
Her Story Helped Elect a Pro-Choice Governor. Now She’s Fighting for a Rape Exception to Kentucky's Abortion Ban.
Jezebel,
In the summer of 2022, after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, Hadley Duvall wrote a Facebook post about being impregnated after her stepfather raped her when she was 12 years old. Duvall, who’s now 21, eventually miscarried the rape-induced pregnancy. That was the first time she publicly shared her story, she… Read more...
Would Be Great If CNN Asked the GOP Candidates About the 1873 Zombie Law That Could Ban All Abortions
Tonight is the fifth Republican debate, the last one before primary voting kicks off with the Iowa caucuses on January 15. While the first debate hosted eight candidates and the fourth one had four candidates, just three candidates qualified for tonight’s event: former president Donald Trump, Florida Gov. Ron… Read more...
More Women Join Lawsuit Saying Tennessee Abortion Ban Threatened Their Lives
On Monday, the Center for Reproductive Rights (CRR) announced that four more women joined their lawsuit against Tennessee’s abortion ban. These new plaintiffs join three other women who say their health, safety, and lives were threatened by being denied emergency abortion care for unsafe pregnancies in Tennessee as… Read more...
The Supreme Court Allows Idaho to Block Emergency Abortions
Late on Friday, the Supreme Court ruled that Idaho can enforce its total abortion ban even when it’s necessary to save a pregnant person’s life, lifting a lower court’s injunction from 2022 that blocked this part of the law. Now, the state can criminalize doctors for offering abortion care during medical emergencies,… Read more...
A Proposed Update to Florida’s Wrongful Death Law Could Screw Over Abortion Providers
The Florida legislature is kicking off 2024 by considering a bill that would amend the state’s wrongful death law so that people could sue over the loss of an “unborn child.” The bill, called Civil Liability for the Wrongful Death of an Unborn Child, was pre-filed for this legislative session at the end of 2o23 and… Read more...
Arkansas’ Quest to Build a Monument for Aborted ‘Babies’ Isn't Going Great
Last year, Arkansas Republicans, who hold a supermajority in the state legislature, easily passed a bill to construct a memorial that would honor the so-called victims of abortion and celebrate the fall of Roe v. Wade. The monument, which will sit on Capitol grounds next to a Confederate war memorial and a statue of… Read more...
It’s Now Even More Dangerous to Be a Pregnant Person in Texas
On Tuesday evening, the famously conservative Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals in Texas ruled that emergency rooms aren’t required to perform life-saving abortions under the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act (EMTALA), regardless of federal guidance. Read more...
Wyoming Abortion Clinic Arsonist Ordered to Pay $300K on Top of 5-Year Prison Sentence
A federal judge has ordered the 22-year-old Wyoming woman who pleaded guilty to setting fire to an abortion clinic in 2022 to pay nearly $300,000 in damages, on top of the five-year prison sentence she’s currently serving. On Tuesday, U.S. District Court Judge Alan B. Johnson determined that Lorna Green, who was… Read more...