Jimmy Williams In a pivotal ruling on Monday, a Wyoming state judge struck down the state’s overarching abortion ban and its unique law explicitly banning medication-induced abortions, marking a significant victory for abortion rights advocates. Teton County District Judge Melissa Owens ruled that the laws violate the state constitution, specifically …
Read More »Georgia Judge Strikes Down Six-Week Abortion Ban, Citing Constitutional Protections
Jimmy Williams A Georgia judge has struck down the state’s controversial abortion law, which prohibited most abortions after approximately six weeks of pregnancy, deeming it unconstitutional and restoring the state’s abortion rights to their pre-2019 status. The decision comes after years of legal battles following the law’s passage in 2019 …
Read More »‘Preventable’ and ‘predictable’: In Atlanta, Harris Addresses Deaths Tied To Georgia Abortion Ban
Jennifer Gerson Originally published by The 19th Vice President Kamala Harris told an Atlanta area audience Friday that “Trump abortion bans” were to blame for the “preventable” deaths of two Georgia women in the news this week, “and those are only the stories we know.” Friday’s event in this key …
Read More »Abortion Bans Have Delayed Emergency Medical Care. In Georgia, Experts Say This Mother’s Death Was Preventable.
Kavitha Surana Series: Life of the Mother: How Abortion Bans Lead to Preventable Deaths More in this series In her final hours, Amber Nicole Thurman suffered from a grave infection that her suburban Atlanta hospital was well-equipped to treat. She’d taken abortion pills and encountered a rare complication; she had …
Read More »North Dakota Judge Vacates State Abortion Ban, Ruling It Unconstitutional
Mary Steurer and Jeff Beach, North Dakota Monitor A judge vacated North Dakota’s abortion ban in a Thursday ruling, finding the law unconstitutionally vague and an infringement on medical freedom. South Central Judicial District Court Judge Bruce Romanick’s order came as part of a lawsuit challenging the law brought last …
Read More »After Conservative Criticism, Trump Said He Is a “no” on Florida’s Abortion Rights Ballot measure
Shefali Luthra Originally published by The 19th After criticizing Florida’s six-week abortion ban on Thursday, former President Donald Trump, a resident of the Sunshine State, told Fox News that he will be voting against a ballot measure to protect and expand abortion rights. “I disagreed with that right from the …
Read More »Vance Claims Trump Would Veto Federal Abortion Ban. Warren Responds: ‘Women Are Not Stupid’
Jake Johnson, Common Dreams Sen. Elizabeth Warren responded forcefully to Sen. JD Vance on Sunday after the Republican vice presidential nominee claimed that Donald Trump—who has repeatedly celebrated and taken credit for the Supreme Court decision that revoked abortion rights at the federal level—would veto legislation imposing a nationwide abortion …
Read More »Iowa’s Six-Week Abortion Ban Is Now In Effect
Robin Opsahl, Iowa Capital Dispatch Many patients seeking abortion care in Iowa in the past few weeks were unaware that the state has banned most abortions beginning Monday, Planned Parenthood staff said. More than six years after the Legislature first attempted to pass the law, abortion became illegal in Iowa, …
Read More »Enforcement of Arizona 1864 Abortion Ban Delayed Until Late September
Gloria Rebecca Gomez, Arizona Mirror The Arizona Supreme Court has agreed to delay the enforcement of a 160-year-old abortion ban that mandates prison time for doctors, granting women and health care providers across the state a reprieve until September. In doing so, the court granted a request from Arizona Attorney …
Read More »In Jacksonville, VP Kamala Harris Says Abortion Rights Are A Fight For Freedom
Mitch Perry, Florida Phoenix A little more than 14 hours after a six-week abortion ban became the law of the land in Florida, Vice President Kamala Harris spoke in Jacksonville, where she put the responsibility for the new restrictions directly at the hands of former President Donald Trump. “As of …
Read More »The AZ Senate Has Repealed The 1864 Abortion Ban, After 2 Republicans Join Dems
Gloria Rebecca Gomez, Arizona Mirror A 160-year-old abortion ban written before Arizona became a state that punishes doctors with prison time is now one step away from being repealed after a pair of Republicans in the state Senate on Wednesday crossed party lines to join Democrats in voting it down. …
Read More »Florida’s Strict Abortion Ban Begins, Impacting Thousands of Women
Jimmy Williams Florida’s strict abortion law, effective Wednesday, severely restricts abortions after just six weeks of pregnancy. The measure, replacing a previous ban at 15 weeks, presents significant challenges for women seeking abortions. While exceptions exist for cases of rape, incest, trafficking, and severe medical issues, the law essentially prohibits …
Read More »Trump Says He Would Let States Prosecute Women for Violating Abortion Bans
Former U.S. President Donald Trump said in an interview published Tuesday that if reelected in November, he would allow states to monitor women’s pregnancies and prosecute anyone who violates an abortion ban. That position, said one leading reproductive rights organization, underscores the grave threat the presumptive GOP nominee poses to …
Read More »Once Again, Arizona Republicans Block Efforts To Repeal The 1864 Abortion Ban
Gloria Rebecca Gomez, Arizona Mirror For the second time in as many weeks, Arizona Republicans refused to strike down a near-total abortion ban from 1864, using a procedural move to block a Democratic effort to repeal the law. On April 9, the Arizona Supreme Court ruled that a near-total ban …
Read More »Virtually All Abortions Would Be Illegal In Florida Under New Proposal Filed By A House Republican
Mitch Perry, Florida Phoenix Less than a year after Gov. Ron DeSantis signed a bill banning abortions in Florida after six weeks, a House Republican in the Legislature has filed a bill that essentially calls for the banning of all abortions in Florida. The move comes as the 2024 legislative …
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