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16 Mar

The Unequal Impacts of Abortion Bans

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New research shows that abortion bans led to more unwanted or unsafe pregnancies carried to term, resulting in an increase in both live births and infant deaths.

24 Feb

The High Costs of Abortion Bans

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For individuals, couples and communities facing the nation's most restrictive abortion bans, access to abortion care is not just politics, it’s personal.

22 Feb

Texas Banned Abortion. Then Sepsis Rates Soared.

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"Pregnancy became far more dangerous in Texas after the state banned abortion in 2021, ProPublica found in a first-of-its-kind data analysis. The rate of sepsis shot up more than 50% for women hospitalized when they lost their pregnancies in the second trimester, ProPublica found. The surge in this life-threatening condition, caused by infection, was most pronounced for patients whose fetus may still have had a heartbeat when they arrived at the hospital...."

21 Feb

Two New Studies Provide Broadest Evidence to Date of Unequal Impacts of Abortion Bans

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Researchers estimate 22,180 more live births and 478 more infant deaths than expected across 14 states, including Texas, that banned abortion between September 2021 and August 2022.

02 Feb

NH abortion ban: Bill to prohibit procedure after 15 weeks, introduced then withdrawn

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"New Hampshire legislators introduced — and then immediately withdrew — a bill to ban abortions after 15 weeks in the Granite State Monday. The first public hearing on the bill, HB 476, was held on Monday morning in front of the House Judiciary committee. However, prime sponsor Rep. Katy Peternel, R-Wolfeboro, said she had decided to withdraw the bill. “After careful review, it has become clear that there is a flaw in the bill that prevents us from moving forward in a logical, reasonable, or obvious way,” said Peternel in a statement. “Without consensus among the pro-life organizations across New Hampshire, this bill does…

27 Dec

Reproductive health newsmakers included pregnant women, judges and anti-abortion activists in 2024

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Galvanized by a pivotal election almost two years after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned federal abortion protections, patients, doctors, and activists in 2024 fought for renewed and expanded reproductive rights, while others pushed for more restrictions. These are some of the people and organizations that had an impact on reproductive health law and abortion access this year.

23 Dec

Are abortion bans across America causing deaths? The states that passed them are doing little to find out.

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In states with abortion bans, ProPublica has found, pregnant women have bled to death, succumbed to fatal infections and wound up in morgues with what medical examiners recorded were “products of conception” still in their bodies.

09 Dec

Campaign finance records don’t capture total spending on Amarillo abortion “travel ban” election

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“Campaign finance records cannot account for all the money spent on advertising over an anti-abortion policy proposal in Amarillo that voters rejected last month, an analysis by The Texas Tribune and Sunlight Research Centerfound. In the months leading up to the vote, thousands of dollars poured into advertising for and against Proposition A, a local ballot measure that garnered national attention. The proposal would have opened the door for private lawsuits against people accused of using local streets and highways to drive someone else for an out-of-state abortion….”

27 Nov

Trump Doesn’t Need Congress To Make Abortion Effectively Unavailable

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On the campaign trail, Donald Trump tried mightily to reassure abortion rights supporters, vowing he would not sign into law a nationwide abortion ban even if Congress sent him one.

24 Nov

Abortion foes strategize to get Trump to ban some abortions while keeping his pledge

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The 2024 election results created complicated new realities for reproductive rights in the U.S., with Americans even in a few red states overwhelmingly voting to protect the right to have an abortion while also overwhelmingly electing anti-abortion representatives in state houses, courts, Congress and the White House.

04 Nov

Texas OB-GYNs urge lawmakers to change abortion laws after reports on pregnant women’s deaths

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“A group of 111 OB-GYNs in Texas released a letter to elected state leaders Sunday urging them to change abortion laws they say have prevented them from providing lifesaving care to pregnant women. The doctors pointed to recent reporting by ProPublica on two Texas pregnant women who died after medical staff delayed emergency care….”

29 Oct

Iowa’s six week abortion ban has been in effect three months

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“Planned Parenthood officials say they do not yet know on how many Iowans have sought abortions out of state after Iowa’s ban on most abortions after the sixth week of a pregnancy took effect July 29. “Quite a few of my patients in Minnesota and Nebraska are from Iowa,” Dr. Sarah Traxler, medical director of Planned Parenthood of North Central States, said during an online news conference. “We do anticipate partner organizations that really focus on the data of abortion care will be releasing data soon so that we can actually measure the impact of this ban in Iowa.”…”

25 Oct

North Dakota seeks to keep abortion ban while appeal proceeds at state Supreme Court

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The Attorney General’s Office has asked the North Dakota Supreme Court to keep the state’s abortion ban in effect while it mulls over a lower court’s decision finding the law unconstitutional.

21 Oct

Infants died at higher rates after abortion bans in the US, research shows

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“In the year and a half following the Supreme Court Dobbs decision that revoked the federal right to an abortion, hundreds more infants died than expected in the United States, new research shows. The vast majority of those infants had congenital anomalies, or birth defects. Earlier research found that infant mortality spiked in Texas after a 6-week abortion ban took effect in 2021, and experts say the new data suggests that the impacts of the bans and restrictions enacted by some states post-Dobbs have been large enough to affect broader trends….”

20 Oct

Experts explain how abortion ban exceptions for rape and incest are inaccessible in practice

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"“When I was 5, I began getting sexually abused by my stepfather, and he got me pregnant when I was 12,” Hadley Duvall says in a new campaign ad released by Vice President Kamala Harris Thursday. Duvall, a rape survivor turned reproductive rights advocate, has been featured in several high-profile campaign ads and spoke at the 2024 Democratic National Convention. She has recounted the harrowing pattern of abuse that resulted in her pregnancy as a child in Kentucky, and the options she had about what to do with that pregnancy...."