Tag Archives: Abortion

The decades-old federal law protecting the privacy of individual health information is threatened by multiple lawsuits that seek to throw out a rule restricting disclosure of information in criminal investigations, including for those seeking legal abortion and other reproductive health care. In one of the cases, the Texas federal judge …

  As state legislative sessions grind on, conservative lawmakers have filed a new batch of bills that would grant legal rights to fetuses and fertilized embryos. Lawmakers in at least eight states — Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Kentucky, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Carolina and Texas — have considered bills to go …

President Donald Trump has directed his administration to block global aid recipients from telling patients about abortion — a move that could weaken reproductive health care worldwide. The move, announced in a presidential memorandum Friday, revives a policy known as the “global gag rule” that Trump and many other Republican …

Mississippi State Senator Bradford Blackmon, a Democrat, introduced a provocative bill this week titled the “Contraception Begins at Erection Act,” aimed at sparking debate over the gender imbalance in reproductive health legislation. The bill, introduced Monday, would make it unlawful for individuals to “discharge genetic material without the intent to …

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has filed a lawsuit accusing a New York doctor of prescribing abortion drugs to a Texas resident in violation of state law. This lawsuit is the first attempt to test what happens when state abortion laws are at odds with each other. New York has …

Jennifer Shutt President-elect Donald Trump has several choices to make in the coming months about whether his second administration will keep access to contraception and abortion as it is now or implement changes. While Trump cannot on his own enact nationwide laws or abortion bans without Congress, he and the …

Jimmy Williams In a significant election outcome on Tuesday, voters across ten states weighed in on abortion rights, with seven passing amendments to protect or expand access. In Florida, Nebraska, and South Dakota, however, voters rejected measures that would have protected abortion rights more broadly, ending a consistent streak of …

Grace Panetta Originally published by The 19th Ten states across the country could enshrine the right to abortion in their state constitutions this year. Seven states have directly voted on abortion since the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in June 2022 — and abortion rights advocates are so …

Malliga Och, Ms. Originally published by The 19th Since the Supreme Court’s Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization decision gave states the authority to decide whether people can access legal abortions, state supreme courts are emerging as vital arenas in the battle over bodily autonomy. The high courts in Florida, …

Jimmy Williams Sen. JD Vance, the Republican vice-presidential nominee, reaffirmed former President Donald Trump’s stance on defunding Planned Parenthood, saying the position remains unchanged. Speaking to reporters Saturday after a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, Vance backed Trump’s consistent opposition to federal funding for the reproductive health organization, citing concerns about …

Shefali Luthra Originally published by The 19th UPDATE: The Supreme Court of Georgia will reinstate the state’s six-week abortion ban starting 5 p.m. Monday, just a week after a trial court struck down the law. Some abortion providers in the state had resumed offering abortions past six weeks of pregnancy …

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 …

Jennifer Gerson Originally published by The 19th Callie Beale Harper was 37 when she found out she was pregnant with twins. Already the mom to a four-year-old son, she and her husband were so excited to grow their family, they opted for noninvasive prenatal testing as soon as it was …

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 …

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 …