legislation – Page 16 – REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS ALERTS

30 Sep

Bills would make Michigan abortion haven

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Now that abortion rights are enshrined in the state constitution, Democrats should deliver on the promises made before Proposal 3 was passed last fall — to recreate the abortion environment that existed under Roe v. Wade, prior to the U.S. Supreme Court’s Dobbs decision.

30 Sep

Idaho can enforce abortion ban in medical emergencies, court rules

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"Idaho can fully enforce its near-total abortion ban after a U.S. appeals court lifted a lower court order that had partially blocked it. A unanimous panel of the San Francisco-based 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Thursday that the state ban on abortion, which includes a narrow exception for abortions that are necessary to prevent the mother's death, does not conflict with a federal law on emergency care...."

27 Sep

Ohio wants to revive a strict abortion law. Justices are weighing the legal arguments

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Ohio Supreme Court justices vigorously questioned the state’s lawyer Wednesday about a legal strategy that Ohio is attempting in hopes of reviving its law banning on abortions except in the earliest weeks of pregnancy.

26 Sep

North Carolina’s new abortion law is back in federal court

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Under the state’s new abortion law, doctors are not allowed to prescribe abortion pills before a patient’s embryo is visible on an ultrasound, which happens at about five or six weeks.

26 Sep

Missouri judge rejects secretary of state’s ‘problematic’ summary of abortion initiative petitions

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"A Cole County judge rewrote the ballot titles for six initiative petitions seeking to enshrine the right to abortion in the Missouri Constitution, ruling that 13 phrases in the summaries written by Secretary of State Jay Ashcroft are “argumentative” or unfairly biased. In a ruling issued Monday morning, Circuit Judge Jon Beetem wrote that the summaries crafted by Ashcroft completely ignored the initiative proposals’ protections for contraceptives and other reproductive health needs...."

18 Sep

Americans don’t trust politicians on abortion and gender-affirming care, poll finds

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Restricting access to both has been a GOP focus, but a new 19th News/SurveyMonkey poll shows sizeable majorities of both parties don’t think politicians are informed enough to make policies.

17 Sep

Indiana attorney general sues hospital system over privacy of Ohio girl who traveled for abortion

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Indiana’s attorney general has sued the state’s largest hospital system, claiming it violated patient privacy laws when a doctor publicly shared the story of an Ohio girl who traveled to Indiana for an abortion.

15 Sep

Abortion rights roundup: September 15, 2023

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House Republicans have buried anti-abortion provisions in must-pass federal spending bills.

08 Sep

Florida abortion rights at stake as state Supreme Court takes up challenge to GOP-led restrictions

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The fate of abortion rights in Florida will be at stake Friday morning when the state Supreme Court is expected to take up a challenge to a law banning the procedure in most cases after 15 weeks of pregnancy, which will determine whether an even stricter six-week ban signed by Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis can take effect.

07 Sep

Mexico decriminalizes abortion, extending Latin American trend of widening access to procedure

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"Mexico’s Supreme Court threw out all federal criminal penalties for abortion Wednesday, ruling that national laws prohibiting the procedure are unconstitutional and violate women’s rights in a sweeping decision that extended Latin American’s trend of widening abortion access. The high court ordered that abortion be removed from the federal penal code. The ruling will require the federal public health service and all federal health institutions to offer abortion to anyone who requests it...."

06 Sep

Planned Parenthood seeks to overturn US whistleblower fraud law

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Planned Parenthood is challenging a decades-old law allowing whistleblowers to bring fraud lawsuits on behalf of the government, in a bid to defeat a $1.8 billion lawsuit by an anonymous anti-abortion activist and the state of Texas seeking to recover money they claim the organization illegally took from Medicaid.

05 Sep

A monumental abortion question for FL Supreme Court: How did voters in 1980 define ‘privacy’?

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On the verge of overruling a 34-year precedent, justices will hear oral arguments Friday in challenge to abortion ban

03 Sep

Abortion battle to play out on multiple fronts in November

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A battle over abortion rights is set to play out on multiple fronts this coming November with votes that could affect access to the procedure in several states.

02 Sep

Ohio votes on abortion rights this fall. Misinformation about the proposal is already spreading

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An effort to guarantee access to abortion rights in Ohio, a November ballot measure, is already fueling misleading claims about how it could influence abortion care, gender-related health care and parental consent in the state.

01 Sep

After nearly 30 years, Pennsylvania will end state funding for anti-abortion counseling centers

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For nearly 30 years, Democratic and Republican lawmakers in Pennsylvania have approved millions of taxpayer dollars for an anti-abortion program. Now the state’s new governor plans to end the contract as the organization that distributes those funds and other groups like it gain attention since the overturning of Roe v. Wade.