Abortion Care – Page 11 – REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS ALERTS

26 Feb

Inside the Internal Debates of a Hospital Abortion Committee

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"Sitting at her computer one day in late December, Dr. Sarah Osmundson mustered her best argument to approve an abortion for a suffering patient. The woman was 14 weeks pregnant when she learned her fetus was developing without a skull. This increased the likelihood of a severe buildup of amniotic fluid, which could cause her uterus to rupture and possibly kill her. Osmundson, a maternal-fetal medicine specialist at Vanderbilt University Medical Center who helps patients navigate high-risk pregnancies, knew that outcome was uncommon, but she had seen it happen...."

25 Feb

Newsom launches abortion ads in Republican states to fight ‘war on women’

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California’s governor, Gavin Newsom, is launching a series of new advertisements in Republican states targeting Republican efforts to criminalize having an abortion and “a war on travel” for reproductive care.

24 Feb

‘We knew’: Abortion rights advocates who predicted the Alabama ruling warn about more restrictions

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The Alabama Supreme Court ruling last week that embryos are people, imperiling in vitro fertilization, shocked many Americans. But the decision was vindicating for abortion rights activists who have warned for years that the fall of Roe v. Wade would put other forms of reproductive health care on the chopping block.

21 Feb

Female Reproductive Factors Could Predict COPD Risk

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Several female reproductive factors across the life cycle were significantly associated with increased COPD risk, including age at menarche, number of children, infertility, pregnancy outcomes, and age at menopause.

17 Feb

Biden and Democrats attack Trump over abortion after report that he supports a 16-week ban

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President Joe Biden and his allies attacked Donald Trump over abortion after the New York Times reported Friday that the former president has privately expressed support for a 16-week federal ban, as Democrats center the politically potent issue ahead of November’s election.

17 Feb

State governments looking to protect health-related data as it’s used in abortion battle

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Some state governments and federal regulators were already moving to keep individuals’ reproductive health information private when a U.S. senator’s report last week offered a new jolt, describing how cellphone location data was used to send millions of anti-abortion ads to people who visited Planned Parenthood offices.

15 Feb

Missouri Supreme Court again says state can’t deny Medicaid funds to Planned Parenthood

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Missouri’s highest court for the second time in four years rebuked the efforts by Republican lawmakers to ban abortion providers and their affiliates from receiving Medicaid reimbursements.

13 Feb

Early Pregnancy Tests Drive Abortion Decisions In States With Bans

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In many states with abortion bans that kick in during the early weeks of pregnancy, patients may not have the opportunity for follow-up diagnostic testing before having to make a decision about abortion.

12 Feb

Adams Administration Releases Sexual and Reproductive Health Bill of Rights, Further Enshrining Right to Reproductive Health and Abortion Care in NYC

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As the right to access abortion care has been stripped away from over one-third of U.S. women, New York City Mayor Eric Adams today announced the city is further enshrining its commitment to reproductive rights, releasing the Sexual and Reproductive Bill of Rights.

11 Feb

A lesson in recognizing anti-abortion propaganda

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Extremist anti-abortion rhetoric often relies on misleading propaganda to sway public opinion and garner support for the anti-choice cause. By disseminating inflammatory and false information, extremists seek to manipulate individuals into adopting their political viewpoint, regardless of the factual inaccuracies presented to the public. Such tactics not only misrepresent the truth, but also perpetuate harmful misconceptions about reproductive health care and individual rights.

10 Feb

‘Fleeing under the cover of darkness’: How Idaho’s abortion ban is changing pregnancy in the state

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Jen and John Adkins never expected to have to send a package like this. Unsteady on her feet after a medical procedure last spring, Jen emerged from a clinic with a box she needed to ship urgently. The clock was ticking; if they missed the FedEx cutoff, she and John recalled to CNN, they wouldn’t be able to get crucial test results that would affect the future of their family.

09 Feb

For some pregnant patients, unregulated anti-abortion centers are the only affordable option

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Research has found that crisis pregnancy centers often provide inaccurate information about pregnancy, which can influence people's reproductive decisions.

08 Feb

What’s at stake for science in Supreme Court’s ‘abortion pill’ case?

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Retractions of mifepristone papers cited by Texas judge are the latest twist in lawsuit that could gut FDA’s oversight

03 Feb

State legislators aim to restrict abortion pills, ‘trafficking’ next in states with bans

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More than half of state legislatures across the country started their 2024 legislative sessions in January, and plenty of abortion-related bills have already been introduced, especially in states where the procedure is already banned. It can be hard to monitor them all, so States Newsroom’s Reproductive Rights Today team will track certain bills that could become law in their respective states in a bi-weekly legislative roundup. Depending on the partisan makeup of a state’s legislature and other state government officials, some bills have a higher chance of passing and becoming law than others.

29 Jan

Pennsylvania high court revives a case challenging Medicaid limits for abortions

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"Pennsylvania's Supreme Court said Monday that a lower court must hear a challenge to the constitutionality of a decades-old state law that limits the use of Medicaid dollars to cover the cost of abortions, a major victory for Planned Parenthood and the abortion clinic operators who sued. The decision also elicited hope that the state Supreme Court may one day find a right to abortion in Pennsylvania's constitution after the U.S. Supreme Court ended nearly a half-century of federal abortion protections by overturning Roe v. Wade...."