Month: June 2024

30 Jun

Abortion surveillance isn’t new but monitoring has increased post Dobbs, activists say

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Abortion surveillance is something former President Donald Trump, the presumptive Republican nominee for president, has said is up to states. But for abortion providers and advocates, surveillance and monitoring by anti-abortion activists has long been the reality. And post-Dobbs many states are actively trying to expand government surveillance.
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28 Jun

Abortion bans still leave a ‘gray area’ for doctors after Idaho Supreme Court case

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"The Supreme Court’s abortion ruling on Thursday is a narrow one that applies only to Idaho and sends a case back down to the appeals court. Confusion among doctors in states that have strict abortion bans remains widespread. The case concerns the kinds of situations in which emergency room doctors could end a pregnancy. Under Idaho law, it is a felony to provide nearly all abortions, unless the life of the mother is at risk. But what if a pregnancy threatens her health? For now, those abortions can happen in Idaho emergency rooms...."
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28 Jun

Iowa’s Supreme Court tells lower court to let strict abortion law go into effect

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"The Iowa Supreme Court has reversed a lower court ruling that put a temporary block on the state’s strict abortion law, and is telling the lower court to let the law take effect. In Friday’s ruling, the high court told the lower court to dissolve the temporary injunction and continue with further proceedings. The new law bans most abortions after about six weeks of pregnancy and before many women know they are pregnant...."
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27 Jun

The First National Data on Birth Control Post-Dobbs Is Here, and the News Is Not Good

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"In the wake of the June 2022 Supreme Court Dobbs decision, as dozens of abortion clinics shut down in states with total or near-total abortion bans, reproductive justice advocates warned that the closures wouldn’t just affect patients seeking to terminate their pregnancies. Family planning clinics have historically provided more than abortion services, often offering basic gynecological health care for women. Indeed, more than 1 in 10 women get their birth control from these clinics, including those that also provide abortions. For low-income patients and people of color, the numbers are closer to one 1 in 5. Without access to affordable and reliable contraception, many more women were…
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25 Jun

Planned Parenthood plans to spend $40m to back Biden and Democrats in bet that voters are angry at Republican efforts to restrict abortion access

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Planned Parenthood will spend $40 million ahead of November’s elections to bolster President Joe Biden and leading congressional Democrats, betting that voters angry at Republican-led efforts to further restrict access to abortion can be the difference in key races around the country.
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24 Jun

Senate Democrats push new protections for reproductive rights in New Jersey

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On the second anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court ruling that overturned the federal right to an abortion, New Jersey Senatehttps://newjerseymonitor.com/2024/06/24/senate-democrats-push-new-protections-for-reproductive-rights-in-new-jersey/ lawmakers advanced the first measure of what they hope to be a nine-bill package protecting reproductive rights in the Garden State.
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22 Jun

Now an abortion rights advocate, woman raped by stepfather as a child will campaign with first lady

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A 22-year-old woman who became an abortion rights advocate after she was raped by her stepfather as a child will campaign with first lady Jill Biden in Pennsylvania this weekend as part of a 2024 election push around the anniversary of the fall of Roe v. Wade.
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