United States

20 Sep

Safety issues with medication abortion are extremely rare, experts emphasize

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"Two Georgia mothers, Amber Thurman and Candi Miller, died in 2022 because of a lack of care most likely tied to the state’s abortion ban, the nonprofit news outlet ProPublica reported this week. Both experienced complications after taking abortion medications, the reporting said — complications, doctors emphasized, that are exceedingly rare and entirely treatable. “To read about a mom just trying to make the best decisions for herself and her family die from something completely preventable in the United States – I don’t think ‘tragedy’ is a strong enough word,” said Dr. Ghazaleh Moayedi, an obstetrician/gynecologist and founder of Pegasus Health Justice Center in…
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19 Sep

Florida to decide on abortion protections, could end 6-week ban in Amendment 4

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"On Nov. 5, Florida residents won’t just be voting for president. They will also be deciding on six different amendments.  Among them is Amendment 4, which would make abortion under certain circumstances a state constitutional right.  Here, we break down Amendment 4, its impacts and what Florida currently allows...."
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18 Sep

Abortion providers — and patients — are on the move, as state laws keep shifting

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“Soon after a series of state laws left a Planned Parenthood clinic in Columbia, Mo., unable to provide abortions in 2018, it shipped some of its equipment to states where abortion remained accessible. Recovery chairs, surgical equipment and lighting from the Missouri clinic — all expensive and perfectly good — could still be useful to other health centers run by the same affiliate, Planned Parenthood Great Plains, in its three other states. Much of it went to Oklahoma, where the organization was expanding, CEO Emily Wales said….”
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18 Sep

Buffer zones set to come in around abortion clinics

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“Buffer zones will come into force around abortion clinics in England and Wales from 31 October. It will make it illegal to hand out anti-abortion leaflets within the buffer zone or obstruct anyone using or working at an abortion clinic. The protection zones, which will prohibit protest, will extend to a 150-metre radius around abortion services and those convicted of breaking the new law will face an unlimited fine.”
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16 Sep

How Do Abortion Pills Work? Answers to Frequently Asked Questions.

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“When the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade and the constitutional right to abortion in 2022, strict bans on the procedure kicked in across the country, leaving women in at least 22 states with fewer options to end pregnancies that in some cases endangered their lives. ProPublica has uncovered at least two cases of women who died after their state banned abortion. In both cases, the women took pills to end their pregnancies and the abortion did not fully complete, causing complications, as can occur in a small number of cases involving abortion medication…”
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16 Sep

Abortion Bans Have Delayed Emergency Medical Care. In Georgia, Experts Say This Mother’s Death Was Preventable.

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“In her final hours, Amber Nicole Thurman suffered from a grave infection that her suburban Atlanta hospital was well-equipped to treat. She’d taken abortion pills and encountered a rare complication; she had not expelled all of the fetal tissue from her body. She showed up at Piedmont Henry Hospital in need of a routine procedure to clear it from her uterus, called a dilation and curettage, or D&C. But just that summer, her state had made performing the procedure a felony, with few exceptions. Any doctor who violated the new Georgia law could be prosecuted and face up to a…
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15 Sep

Takeaways from AP’s report on a new abortion clinic in rural southeast Kansas

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“A new abortion clinic has brought the debate over reproductive rights to a small college town in the southeast corner of Kansas. It’s one of the few states left in the region still allowing abortions. A religious, Republican-leaning semi-rural location like Pittsburg, Kansas, would have been unlikely to host an abortion clinic before Roe v. Wade was overturned in 2022, but that is changing across the country….”
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15 Sep

Arizona’s 1864 abortion ban is officially off the books

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“Arizona’s Civil War-era ban on nearly all abortions officially is being repealed Saturday. The western swing state has been whipsawed over recent months, starting with the Arizona Supreme Court deciding in April to let the state enforce the long-dormant 1864 law that criminalized all abortions except when a woman’s life was jeopardized. Then state lawmakers voted on a bill to repeal that law once and for all….”
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12 Sep

DeSantis administration cites rejected signatures to justify abortion amendment probe

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“Fraudulent petition signatures cited by the DeSantis administration as justification for its probe of Florida's abortion rights referendum had already been rejected, according to a local elections supervisor. That means those signatures never counted toward the total required to put the measure before voters, Palm Beach County supervisor of elections Wendy Link, a Gov. Ron DeSantis appointee, tells Axios….”
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11 Sep

Trump and Harris’ views on abortion and IVF access, explained

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“Abortion is one of the issues that could drive voters' decisions in the November election, the first presidential contest held since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade two years ago and paved the way for 22 states to restrict access to the procedure. Going into the 2024 election, the two presidential nominees, Donald Trump and Kamala Harris, have talked about their views of and stances on abortion and and what the future might hold for abortion access if elected….”
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11 Sep

Missouri Supreme Court puts abortion question back on November ballot

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“The Missouri Supreme Court has overturned a lower court decision that would have removed a question on legalizing abortion from the November ballot. The court heard arguments Tuesday morning and Chief Justice Mary Russell issued a decision a little after 2 p.m. Tuesday. The judges voted by majority to reverse Cole County Circuit Judge Christopher Limbaugh's decision, issued last week….”
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08 Sep

North Carolina Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson says he wants abortion to be illegal at ‘zero’ weeks, in new audio released by Democrats

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“A Democratic group has released new audio of North Carolina Republican Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson, who is running for governor, saying that he wants to get abortion restrictions down to “zero” weeks.  In the audio, which the group said was recorded on Sept. 3 at a Robinson campaign event in Troy, N.C., a woman asked Robinson about his stance on abortion and why he was supporting North Carolina’s current 12-week ban on the procedure….”
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07 Sep

Poland eases abortion access with new guidelines for doctors under a restrictive law

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 "Seeking to ease access to abortion for women needing to end a pregnancy for health reasons, Poland's government is issuing guidelines to doctors Friday that reaffirm the legality of such procedures, based on medical recommendations. Under the current law, abortions for health reasons are permitted but the previous conservative government limited some other qualifying circumstances, leading to mass street protests and heightening the reluctance of doctors to expose themselves to a possible prosecution...."
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07 Sep

Missouri abortion-rights amendment could be axed from the ballot after ruling

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 "A Missouri judge on Friday ruled that an abortion-rights campaign did not meet legal requirements to qualify for the November ballot, potentially thwarting a yearslong effort to undo the state's near-total abortion ban. But Cole County Circuit Judge Christopher Limbaugh stopped short of removing the measure from the ballot. Instead, he gave the abortion-rights campaign a chance to file a last-minute appeal before Tuesday's deadline to make changes to the Missouri ballot...."
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06 Sep

Doctors Are Leaving Conservative States to Learn to Perform Abortions. We Followed One.

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“…The doctor, who specializes in internal medicine and pediatrics, came to be in that exam room thousands of miles from home because in 2022, the Supreme Court ruling overturning Roe v. Wade had rolled back access to abortion in her state. Though abortion training was not required in her specialties, she had long wanted to learn how to perform the procedure. But the new rules in her state — which went through years of litigation — dramatically reduced access to that training. Also, because abortions and miscarriages often require identical surgical procedures and drugs, the doctor would have fewer opportunities to practice the skills…
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