Abortion Care

17 Jan

Parental rights at center of reproductive health debate

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Democrats push constitutional amendment and contraception protections; GOP raises oversight concerns. Republicans are ramping up opposition to Democrat-led efforts to protect abortion and contraception access, claiming the proposals undermine parental rights in minors’ healthcare decisions. As these measures advance in the legislature, the battle over oversight is heating up.
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07 Jan

With lawsuits and legislation, Texas Republicans take aim at abortion pills

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"Since the U.S. Supreme Court allowed states like Texas to ban nearly all abortions, the number of pregnancy terminations in the United States actually increased. This paradox, which pleases abortion advocates as much as it frustrates their conservative counterparts, hinges mostly on pills. An average of 2,800 Texans receive abortion-inducing medications through the mail each month from states that still allow abortion, according to #WeCount, a tracking project from the Society of Family Planning...."
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06 Jan

Quebec launches action plan to improve access to abortion, protect women’s right to choose

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"Quebec has introduced its first-ever action plan aimed at improving access to abortion in the province and reaffirming women's right to choose, particularly in light of the setbacks to reproductive rights unfolding in the United States. Martine Biron, minister responsible for the status of women, announced the Plan d'action gouvernemental sur l'accès à l'avortement 2024-2027 on Monday, saying this plan responds to women's concerns about the protection of their rights...."
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04 Jan

Florida doctor faces $10,000 fine in abortion case

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"After the state Department of Health called for revoking the doctor's license, the Florida Board of Medicine this week issued a final order imposing a $10,000 fine and reprimanding a physician who did not comply in 2022 with a law requiring 24-hour waiting periods before abortions can be performed. The order came after the board decided last month to approve penalties for physician Candace Sue Cooley that were less severe than what the Department of Health wanted...."
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29 Dec

Faith in Action: The Red Tent Fund and the Fight for Reproductive Justice

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More than half of women of reproductive age enrolled in Medicaid or CHIP live in states that ban assistance coverage for abortion, with very rare exceptions. And about half of those women are women of color. That is according to the National Council of Jewish Women. At a recent event for the local chapter of NCJW, Allison Tombros Korman, founder of The Red Tent Fund, assisting those who need care is a fundamental Jewish value. “For me, Tikkun Olam needs to be more than just repairing a broken world. It needs to be about being proactive in preventing those things…
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16 Dec

Report details struggles of independent abortion clinics nationwide after Roe

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"LaDonna Prince’s new reproductive care clinic in Illinois was supposed to be open more than a year ago. Prince and her staff were prepared for Indiana to ban abortion, and started trying to move operations to Danville, Illinois, in 2023. It’s about 90 minutes across the border from her old clinic in Indianapolis, which provided abortion care for more than 40 years before the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in 2022 and allowed states to regulate abortion access. Today, 12 states — including Indiana — have a near-total ban on abortion, and four states have a six-week ban,…
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04 Dec

California lawmakers unveil new abortion protections ahead of Trump return to White House

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“California’s lawmakers unveiled two new pieces of legislation to protect abortion access in the state ahead of President-elect Trump’s return to the White House in January.  The first of the two bills seeks to protect Californians’ access to abortion, particularly medication abortion….”
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03 Dec

Zimbabwe court rules against law that denies abortion to marital rape victims and girls below 18

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“A law prohibiting abortion services for women raped by their husbands and girls under the age of 18 is unconstitutional, Zimbabwe’s High Court has ruled. In his ruling handed down on Nov. 22 and made public this week, Judge Maxwell Takuva said since Zimbabwe’s laws already criminalize marital rape and sex with a minor, victims should be allowed to abort if they become pregnant….”
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22 Nov

Georgia axes maternal health panel after leak about abortion deaths

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“Georgia officials have dissolved a committee responsible for investigating deaths of pregnant women in the state, after one or more members leaked confidential information about deaths linked to the state's strict abortion laws.  In a letter sent to members of the Maternal Mortality Review Committee (MMRC), Georgia health commissioner Kathleen Toomey said an investigation failed to identify those responsible for the leak, so all current members would be removed….”
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21 Nov

Expecting challenges, blue states vow to create ‘firewall’ of abortion protections

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Officials in blue states are vowing to build a “firewall” of reproductive health protections as they anticipate federal and state attacks on abortion access under the Trump administration. “We’re going on offense,” Connecticut Attorney General William Tong, a Democrat, told Stateline. “We are in an unprecedented war on American women and patients. State attorneys general, particularly my colleagues and I who support abortion rights and reproductive freedom, have been building this firewall for some time now.”
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20 Nov

Texas Lawmakers Push for New Exceptions to State’s Strict Abortion Ban After the Deaths of Two Women

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“Weeks after ProPublica reported on the deaths of two pregnant women whose miscarriages went untreated in Texas, state lawmakers have filed bills that would create new exceptions to the state’s strict abortion laws, broadening doctors’ ability to intervene when their patients face health risks. The legislation comes after the lawmaker who wrote one of Texas’ recent abortion bans wrote an op-ed in the Houston Chronicledefending the current exceptions as “plenty clear.”…”
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