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Abortion ballot organizer says Montanans should not take reproductive rights for granted

The year after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in 2022, Montana’s Republican-majority legislature passed an array of bills restricting abortion. Though these laws were blocked by courts and abortion until fetal viability remains the law in Montana, reproductive rights activists say they no longer feel confident that their state constitution’s right to privacy will always protect their rights while pregnant. Now Montana joins nine other states who this November will vote on whether to explicitly protect the right to terminate a pregnancy in their state’s constitution. Last week the secretary of state’s office approved and certified Constitutional Initiative 128,…
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Abortion access could be in jeopardy as Chicago Abortion Fund, others run short of mone

"Abortion took center stage during the Democratic National Convention, and Illinois was celebrated for welcoming thousands of women needing care since access has vanished across much of the Midwest and the South. But funds that are essential for many traveling to Illinois and other states for abortions — paying for their flights, hotels, child care and the abortions — are running out of money. Providers and advocates say that’s putting access to reproductive medical care in jeopardy...."
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‘Crisis pregnancy centers’ sue Massachusetts for campaign targeting their anti-abortion practices

"Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey launched a $1 million taxpayer-funded initiative in June designed to discourage people from seeking help from “crisis pregnancy centers” that are typically religiously affiliated and counsel clients against having abortions. The campaign includes ads on social media, billboards, radio and buses warning people to avoid the centers — which the administration dubbed “anti-abortion” — saying they're not to be trusted for comprehensive reproductive health care...."
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Abortion rights won’t be safe with Hogan in the Senate | GUEST COMMENTARY

Two years ago, the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, ending the constitutional right to abortion and opening the floodgates to a patchwork of abortion restrictions across the United States. Now, in Maryland, abortion rights are on the ballot. I’m not just talking about this November’s ballot initiative that would enshrine reproductive freedom into the Maryland state constitution.
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Opinion: North Carolina judges, the fall election, and reproductive freedom

As we sprint towards Election Day 2024 with high-profile presidential and congressional elections on the horizon, many of us are talking about how these elections will impact abortion access in North Carolina and around the country. Even if we elect a pro-choice White House, however, the specter of nine unelected justices appointed for life to the highest court in the land where they play an outsized role in abortion access remains. For anti-abortion lawmakers, getting six anti-abortion justices to form a supermajority on the U.S. Supreme Court was indeed the key to pushing their unpopular and regressive agenda.
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Yellowhammer Fund Gala makes D.C. debut for reproductive justice in the deep South

Yellowhammer Fund, a 501(c)3 abortion advocacy and reproductive justice organization serving Alabama, Mississippi, and the Deep South, announced the debut of their Yellowhammer Fund Gala in Washington D.C. This groundbreaking event will bring together supporters of reproductive health, rights, and justice for an evening of entertainment on 14th Street on Saturday, September 28th.
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New York Planned Parenthood staff decry ‘devastating’ abortion service cuts

"In the coming weeks, Planned Parenthood’s Manhattan health center will stop offering core reproductive health services, including abortions after 20 weeks and deep sedation for procedures like abortion or IUD insertion. The Manhattan clinic currently offers abortion through 24 weeks and is the only Planned Parenthood location in the state that does so. The group has been beset by financial challenges, and plans to close a number of New York clinics in the near future...."
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Iowa abortion providers dismiss legal challenge against state’s strict law now that it’s in effect

"Iowa abortion providers opted to dismiss their lawsuit against the state Thursday, forgoing a continued legal battle after the Iowa Supreme Court upheld the state’s strict abortion law and reiterated that there is no constitutional right to an abortion in the state. Iowa’s law prohibiting most abortions after about six weeks, before many women know they are pregnant, went into effect on July 29. Abortion had been legal in Iowa up to 20 weeks of pregnancy...."
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Political parties are divided on abortion rights. American women aren’t.

"Most women between the ages of 18 and 49 support a national right to abortion, oppose a national ban on the procedure, and don’t believe abortion rights should be left up to individual states, according to a new survey from KFF, a nonprofit health policy research, polling and news organization. Majorities of Democratic and independent women oppose restrictions and support a law enshrining a national abortion right, the poll found; so do almost half of all Republican women. The survey was fielded from May 15 to June 18, looking at a nationally representative sample of 3,901 people ages 18 to 49…
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