31 posts tagged ‘Roe v. Wade’
After a Hospital Refused Her Emergency Abortion Care, Biden Admin Rejected Her Complaint
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In March, Jaci Statton, a 25-year-old mother of three in Oklahoma, says she was turned away by a hospital despite suffering from a nonviable, molar pregnancy. Molar pregnancies occur when an embryo has too many chromosomes and can result in developing tissue becoming cancerous. Statton’s emergency room doctor told her… Read more...
Planned Parenthood Affiliate in Missouri Now Supports Abortion Limit It Very Recently Opposed
There’s been a simmering debate in the reproductive rights movement about how to proceed now that Roe v. Wade is gone: Should advocates re-enshrine Roe at the state level, or, knowing the decision never guaranteed full access, push for something better? Read more...
Anti-Abortion Leaders Are Turning on Mike Johnson Because He’s Trying to Stop a Shutdown
When Mike Johnson was elected House Speaker over two long months ago, anti-abortion hard-liners celebrated it as a win: Finally, here was a fellow extremist, who compared abortion to the Holocaust and even blamed abortion for school shootings, presiding over the House of Representatives. But according to a new… Read more...
Doctors Say Patients Are Scared to Ask Basic Pregnancy Questions in Chilling Senate Briefing
On Wednesday, Democratic senators hosted a briefing featuring testimony from two abortion providers and feminist author Jessica Valenti about the lived toll of abortion bans nearly 1.5 years after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade—and just before the 51st anniversary of Roe next week. At one point, Sen.… Read more...
Kansas Republicans Are Trying to Pass an Abortion Ban After Kansas Voters Voted Against One
In 2022, Kansas voters overwhelmingly rejected an anti-abortion ballot measure that attempted to strike the right to abortion from the state Constitution—a right that had been established by a state Supreme Court decision in 2019. Now, Kansas Republicans are openly defying voters: Last week, eight House Republicans… Read more...
Jury Decides Not to Prosecute Black Woman in Ohio for Having a Miscarriage
A grand jury in Trumbull County, Ohio, has decided not to charge Brittany Watts with a felony abuse of a corpse charge for having a miscarriage 22 weeks into her pregnancy, county prosecutors announced on Thursday. The decision comes after Watts’ case sparked national outrage that a Black woman was being criminalized… Read more...
It’s Not Enough for Biden to Say ‘Trump Bad’ on Abortion
While Nikki Haley and Ron DeSantis continued their try-hard, deeply pathetic race for second place during the fifth GOP debate on Wednesday night, Donald Trump held a town hall in Iowa and gleefully declared that he is the one who ended Roe v. Wade. A voter asked about his commitment to ending all abortions (which is… Read more...
Her Story Helped Elect a Pro-Choice Governor. Now She’s Fighting for a Rape Exception to Kentucky's Abortion Ban.
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...