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27 Jul

Judge strikes down a North Carolina abortion restriction but upholds another

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"A federal judge ruled Friday that a provision in North Carolina's abortion laws requiring doctors to document the location of a pregnancy before prescribing abortion pills should be blocked permanently, affirming that it was too vague to be enforced reasonably. The implementation of that requirement was already halted last year by U.S. District Judge Catherine Eagles until a lawsuit challenging portions of the abortion law enacted by the Republican-dominated General Assembly in 2023 was litigated further. Eagles now says a permanent injunction would be issued at some point...."

26 Jul

I started reporting on the dearth of reproductive health care. Then I had my own emergency.

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Tick. Tick. Tick. The clock in my OB-GYN’s office was taunting me. Tick. Tick. Tick. Any moment, I thought, this could kill me.

25 Jul

Anti-abortion group argues that Indiana health department’s abortion records must be public

BarbraLatest NewsAbortion Ban, Abortion data, Healthcare, IDOH, Indiana, Privacy, Reproductive rights, United States

In defense of its lawsuit against the state health department, a South Bend-based anti-abortion group doubled down in new court filings that related medical records do not compromise patient privacy and should be made available to the public. The ongoing lawsuit was filed in May by “Voices for Life,” which seeks to regain access to Terminated Pregnancy Reports (TPRs) that are no longer being released by the Indiana Department of Health (IDOH). The state health department is seeking to dismiss the lawsuit, however, maintaining that TPRs qualify as medical records and are exempt from disclosure under Indiana’s Access to Public Records Act, also known…

24 Jul

North Dakota judge will decide whether to throw out a challenge to the state’s abortion ban

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"Attorneys argued Tuesday over whether a North Dakota judge should toss a lawsuit challenging the state's abortion ban, with the state saying the plaintiffs' case rests on hypotheticals, and the plaintiffs saying key issues remain to be resolved at a scheduled trial. State District Judge Bruce Romanick said he will rule as quickly as he can, but he also asked the plaintiffs' attorney what difference he would have at the court trial in August. The Red River Women's Clinic, which moved from Fargo to neighboring Moorhead, Minnesota, filed the lawsuit challenging the state's now-repealed trigger ban soon after the fall…

24 Jul

Democrats Hope Harris’ Bluntness on Abortion Will Translate to 2024 Wins in Congress and White House

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President Joe Biden might not often use the word “abortion” when he talks about the overturning of Roe v. Wade, but Vice President Kamala Harris sure does. She's also toured a Minnesota Planned Parenthood clinic where the procedure is performed and routinely links the fall of Roe to the larger issue of rising maternal mortality nationwide.

24 Jul

Women living with HIV continue to face violations of their sexual and reproductive rights—including coercion into sterilization

PatLatest NewsHIV, International, Reproductive Coercion, Reproductive rights

Women living with HIV including women from key populations continue to suffer widespread reproductive coercion, mistreatment, and neglect when seeking reproductive health services and rights around the world, a new report by the International Community of Women Living with HIV (ICW) has revealed today. The report was launched at a joint ICW/UNAIDS event at the 25th International AIDS Conference taking place in Munich, Germany.

23 Jul

Here’s where Kamala Harris stands on various health care issues as she campaigns for presidency

PatLatest NewsHealthcare, Reproductive rights, United States

Harris has expressed many of the same views as Biden on health care issues, including access to abortion and lowering prescription drug prices, both while campaigning against Biden for their party's presidential nomination during the last general election and as Biden's vice president.

23 Jul

Cook to divest reproductive business to private equity company

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The sale includes Cook’s in vitro fertilisation (IVF) and assisted reproductive technology (ART) products, along with a Pennsylvania manufacturing site, Cook Vandergrift. After the deal closes, Astrog plans to combine the Cook ART portfolio with Hamilton Thorne, which also has an ART portfolio of its own.

22 Jul

Opinion: Abortion restrictions, inadequate investments undermine women’s health outcomes

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22 Jul

Harris, who is Biden’s voice on abortion rights, is likely to raise the volume

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Throughout Joe Biden’s presidency, he leaned on the outspoken former prosecutor and senator he selected as his vice president, Kamala Harris, to be the White House’s voice of unflinching support for reproductive health rights.

21 Jul

Check your VPN, abortion seekers. New ‘Vagina Privacy Network’ aims to keep data safe

MollyLatest News, United StatesAbortion Care, Abortion Rights, Digital privacy, Onine safety, Privacy, United States, VPN

"Two years after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, reproductive rights and data privacy advocates teamed up to launch a new kind of VPN: The Vagina Privacy Network. The campaign offers a how-to guide on protecting digital privacy for people worried their data could be used against them after they've had an abortion, particularly those in one of the 14 states that ban the procedure. The seven tips range from using encrypted messaging apps to communicating on burner phones, which campaign creator MSI Reproductive Choices has been handing out at reproductive rights marches nationwide, according to Whitney Chinogwenya, the…

21 Jul

Ruling keeps abortion question on ballot in South Dakota

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"A state court judge's ruling Monday keeps an abortion-rights question on the November ballot in South Dakota. Judge John Pekas dismissed a lawsuit filed by an anti-abortion group, Life Defense Fund, that sought to have the question removed even though supporters turned in more than enough valid signatures to put it on the ballot...."

20 Jul

Abortion Gets the Silent Treatment at the RNC

PatLatest NewsAbortion Ban, Abortion Care, Healthcare, legislation, Post-Dobbs, United States

Sen. Marsha Blackburn from Tennessee didn’t talk about it. Neither did her colleagues Sens. Steve Daines from Montana or Tim Scott from South Carolina. Donald Trump’s running mate, Sen. JD Vance of Ohio, didn’t bring it up. A top adviser to the former president, Kellyanne Conway, certainly didn’t — she’s been warning Republican lawmakers for months to be careful about how they talk about it.

20 Jul

Anti-abortion researchers back riskier procedures when pregnancy termination is needed, experts say

AlanLatest NewsAbortion Care, Anti-Abortion States, Healthcare, Post-Dobbs, United States

The day the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in 2022, the medical board that certifies OB-GYNs in America released a statement calling legal pregnancy termination and knowledge of abortion procedures “essential to reproductive health care.”

19 Jul

DO THE MATH! Disability, Guns, and Abortion.

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