Working on abortion access in Texas, we see every day how immigration justice and reproductive justice are inseparable.
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The Anti-Migrant Crackdown Is Also a Reproductive Justice Crisis Read Post »
Anti-vaxxers are copying a core anti-abortion strategy: if you can’t make it illegal, make it inaccessible instead.
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FDA’s Arbitrary Restrictions on Vaccines Are Right Out of Anti-Abortion Playbook Read Post »
Letitia James’s intervention increases the likelihood SCOTUS will weigh in on shield laws and telehealth abortions.
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New York AG Will Defend Her State’s Abortion Shield Laws From Texas Challenge Read Post »
A Texas man accused of putting abortion pills in his partner’s drink has countersued for $100 million, claiming she made the whole thing up. Last month, Autonomy News reported on a lawsuit filed by Liana Davis, a Texas woman who alleged that Christopher Cooprider, a 34-year-old Marine pilot, had given her abortion-inducing medication without her […]
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Texas Lawsuit Over Cocoa “Laced” With Abortion Drug Gets Even Wilder Read Post »
The bill also lets private citizens sue health providers for mailing, prescribing, or providing abortion pills.
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Texas Passes Ban on Mail-Order Abortion Pills Read Post »
Prominent anti-abortion operatives are deeply entangled in the lawsuit filed this August by a woman in Texas.
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Wrongful Death Suit in Texas Poses New Threats to Medication Abortion Access Read Post »
This story was produced in partnership with CBS News. A South Texas woman who was arrested on murder charges in 2022 after using medication to terminate her pregnancy has alleged new details about her case against a local sheriff and prosecutors, claiming they violated her constitutional rights. Her August 12 court filing comes as the […]
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“I Made a Mistake”—How Texas Officials Criminalized a Woman for Legal Abortion Care Read Post »
For nine years, Karen Musick stood outside the Little Rock Family Planning Services clinic in Arkansas, protecting women arriving for their abortion appointments from anti-abortion protesters who regularly gathered there. After retiring from her job as a loan specialist with the Small Business Administration, Musick was filled with purpose as a clinic escort volunteer. “I […]
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During his campaign for a second term in office, President Donald Trump claimed that he would leave abortion “to the states” if reelected. Trump has, in fact, managed to quietly shape the national abortion politics in his second term. According to a new analysis from the Associated Press, roughly half of Trump’s nominees to the […]
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Report: Half of Trump’s Judicial Nominees Have Anti-Abortion Records Read Post »
Two months after the Supreme Court overruled Roe v. Wade, in June 2022, Idaho’s trigger ban outlawing most abortions—one of the strictest nationwide—took effect. The fallout soon made headlines. The Biden-era Department of Justice sued, alleging that the Idaho ban violated a federal law that required hospitals to stabilize people who arrived in their emergency […]
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Idaho Lost One in Three OB/GYNs After Its Abortion Ban Read Post »
On Friday, the Department of Veterans Affairs proposed a policy change that advocates for reproductive rights say could become one of the strictest abortion bans nationwide. The department filed a proposed rule seeking to eliminate coverage for the limited abortion services and counseling that have been available to veterans and their beneficiaries under the VA […]
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Trump Administration Moves Quietly to Restrict Life-Saving Abortions for Veterans Read Post »
For decades, the default feminist position on hysterectomy has been skepticism—and with good reason: The history of gynecology is replete with stories of unethical doctors and gruesome experimentation, of deeply ingrained misogyny and horrific racism. But when Hunter College medical sociologist Andréa Becker started doing research on hysterectomies in 2019, she discovered that many women […]
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The Surgery That Reveals Everything That’s Wrong With Women’s Health Care Read Post »
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