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 …
Read More »“Contraception Begins at Erection Act” Sparks Debate On Reproductive Rights
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 …
Read More »Ken Paxton Sues New York Doctor Accused of Prescribing Abortion Pills to Texas Woman
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 …
Read More »Health Experts Outline How Trump Administration Could Affect Abortion, Contraception Access
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 …
Read More »Seven States Pass Constitutional Amendments to Protect Abortion Rights, While Three Reject Measures
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 …
Read More »Abortion Is On The Ballot In 10 States This Year
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 …
Read More »State Supreme Court Races Could Determine Abortion Access In Several States
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, …
Read More »JD Vance Confirms Trump Administration Would Defund Planned Parenthood
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 …
Read More »Supreme Court of Georgia Rules To Reinstate The State’s Six-Week Abortion Ban
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 …
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 »Abortion is Quietly Driving The Voting Conversation in Georgia — Even If It Isn’t On The Ballot
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 …
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 »Missouri Supreme Court Rules Amendment Legalizing Abortion Will Remain On Ballot
Anna Spoerre, Missouri Independent Missourians will have the opportunity to vote to enshrine abortion in the state constitution this November, the Missouri Supreme Court ruled Tuesday. In a decision published less than three hours before the constitutional deadline to remove a question from the ballot, the Supreme Court reversed a …
Read More »A Policy Cheat Sheet: Where Trump and Harris Stand On These Six Issues
Originally published by The 19th Last month, we asked you, our readers, to tell us the top three issues that are motivating you to vote in November. We received over 150 responses on a broad range of topics. Once we landed on the six that were most mentioned — abortion, …
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