“This is the most extreme, heinous bill restricting reproductive health care that we have faced yet,” one critic said.
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House Republicans are now talking about combing through sewers in search of microscopic evidence of our abortions.
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In anti-abortion Republicans’ latest attack on abortion pills, Florida’s attorney general is suing Planned Parenthood for allegedly misrepresenting the safety of the drugs—despite the fact that more than 100 scientific studies have shown they are safe and effective. The 37-page lawsuit, announced by Attorney General James Uthmeier’s office on Thursday and filed in Florida’s First […]
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Abortion may not technically be on the ballot in Tuesday’s off-year state elections, but in the post-Roe v. Wade era, abortion is always on the ballot. Since the US Supreme Court’s 2022 Dobbs ruling that ended the federal right to abortion, statewide elections have become opportunities for reproductive rights supporters and opponents alike to expand […]
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What Tuesday’s Elections Mean for the Future of Abortion Access Read Post »
Anti-abortion advocates haven’t just played key roles in rolling back abortion rights in recent years. They also helped tank President Donald Trump’s campaign-trail promise to make in vitro fertilization free. That’s according to a new report published Saturday in Politico, which reveals that anti-abortion activists—some of whom are opposed to IVF because it involves discarding […]
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To hear former Planned Parenthood Southeast staffers tell it, the alarm bells started going off in the summer of 2024. The latest CEO had just been ousted, and the organization needed a seasoned reproductive rights advocate to lead it through a period of unprecedented political and institutional upheaval. Instead, Mairo Akposé, the new interim chief […]
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Staffers Fear a Southern Planned Parenthood Faces a “Dangerous Threat From Within” Read Post »
In the Oval Office on Thursday, several Cabinet members and advocates for in vitro fertilization (IVF) gathered to claim that President Donald Trump was delivering on his campaign trail pledge to radically expand access to the popular but expensive process for getting pregnant. In reality, Thursday’s announcement falls far short of Trump’s prior promise to […]
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So Much for Trump’s Promise of Free IVF Read Post »
This article is a collaboration with Autonomy News, a worker-owned publication covering reproductive rights and justice. Sign up for a free or paid subscription, and follow them on Instagram, TikTok, and Bluesky. Crisis pregnancy centers have played a central role in the anti-abortion movement since the 1960s, often misleading and confusing people seeking abortions while purporting to help them. They […]
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How Abortion Pill “Reversal” Became a Powerful Right-Wing Legal Weapon Read Post »
Fear of deportation is deterring people without permanent legal status from critical care.
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ICE Is Putting Pregnant Immigrants — and Their Children — at Risk Read Post »
El Salvador has imprisoned women who suffered obstetric emergencies like miscarriages or stillbirths.
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After the Fall of “Roe,” Will El Salvador’s Total Abortion Ban Be Model for US? Read Post »
In early June, Sasha, who was around 16 weeks pregnant, started to bleed vaginally. She went to the emergency room, where doctors told her she was suffering from a “subchorionic hemorrhage,” diagnosed her with a “threatened miscarriage,” and sent her home. A couple of weeks later, Sasha (whose name has been changed to protect her privacy) […]
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Twenty-five years ago today, the Food and Drug Administration approved the use of mifepristone for abortions. Now, the drug is more under threat than ever as anti-abortion Republicans seek to revoke FDA approval of the drug in a bid to further curtail abortion access nationwide. The first of two drugs used in the standard abortion […]
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