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Idaho Lost One in Three OB/GYNs After Its Abortion Ban

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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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Trump Administration Moves Quietly to Restrict Life-Saving Abortions for Veterans

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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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The Surgery That Reveals Everything That’s Wrong With Women’s Health Care

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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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Federal Appeals Court Upheld West Virginia Ban on Medication Abortion. Now What?

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If the Supreme Court gets involved, it could set national precedent for states to ban medications approved by the FDA.

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New Lawsuit Could Challenge Telehealth Abortion Access Nationwide

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The case could end up in front of the Supreme Court — an opportunity that abortion opponents have been waiting for.

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He’s Suing His Girlfriend’s Doctor for Prescribing Abortion Pills. Could This Gut Access Everywhere?

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In a case squarely aimed at breathing new life into the federal Comstock Act—and at thwarting the efforts of abortion-friendly states to protect providers and patients—a Texas man has sued a California doctor for allegedly mailing abortion pills to his girlfriend and is asking the court to prevent the woman, who is currently pregnant, from […]

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Idaho’s Abortion Ban Is Impacting Routine Care for Seniors and Kids

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Three years after “Dobbs,” states that were already struggling with physician shortages say they’re getting worse.

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The Choice Some Pregnant Immigrants Face: Deportation or Parenthood

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Shortly after Roe v. Wade was overturned in 2022, and Texas completely outlawed abortion in communities along the Rio Grande Valley, the effect was swift. In this region, which is home to 1.4 million residents, most of them Latinx or immigrants, the area’s only abortion clinic in McAllen was forced to shut down. “When we […]

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How Viability Limits End Up Criminalizing Pregnancy

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When Karen Thompson became the legal director at Pregnancy Justice a year and a half ago, she was still learning about the reproductive justice issues at the heart of the organization’s mission. But after 20 years focused on the criminal justice system, first at the Innocence Project, then at the ACLU of New Jersey, she […]

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States That Have Banned Abortion Are Now Criminalizing Midwives

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In March, police arrested a midwife named Maria, marking the first targeted provider arrest under Texas’s abortion ban.

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Senate Parliamentarian Rejects GOP Reconciliation Bill’s Anti-Abortion Provision

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The provision violates the Byrd Rule, which restricts non-budgetary items from appearing in reconciliation bills.

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