Tag Archives: Abortion

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 …

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 …

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, …

Jimmy Williams In a newly surfaced audio recording, North Carolina’s Republican Lieutenant Governor Mark Robinson is heard outlining his desire to restrict abortion access to “zero” weeks, challenging the state’s current 12-week abortion law. The recording, dated September 3, was made public by a Democratic group aiming to hold Robinson …

Elisha Brown After legal fights, counter-campaigns and bureaucratic wrangling all year long, as things stand today, abortion questions in 10 states are heading to ballots in November. After abortion rights were upended federally in June 2022, Kansas voters got a chance to weigh in on a ballot measure that was …

Mariel Padilla Originally published by The 19th Former President Donald Trump announced Thursday that he would ensure the government or insurance companies would fully pay for people’s IVF treatments, without providing details on how. He also indicated he would vote for a Florida ballot measure that would overturn a six-week …

Mitch Perry, Florida Phoenix Former President Donald Trump said Thursday that Florida’s law banning most abortions after six weeks is “too short,” but was cagy about whether that means he will vote for Amendment 4 this fall, which would enshrine a woman’s right to an abortion in the state’s Constitution. …

Jimmy Williams In a closely divided 4-3 ruling, the Arkansas Supreme Court on Thursday effectively blocked an amendment aimed at legalizing abortion from appearing on the state’s November ballot. The court ruled that signatures collected by paid canvassers, which made up a portion of the petition drive by Arkansans for …

Jimmy Williams Voters in Arizona and Montana will have the opportunity to protect abortion rights in their state constitutions this November, as both states have cleared the path for the issue to be placed on the ballot. The Arizona Supreme Court ruled on Tuesday that the 200-word summary used by …

Anna Spoerre, Missouri Independent Abortion will be on Missouri’s statewide ballot in November. An initiative petition to enshrine the right to abortion up until the point of fetal viability received final approval Tuesday, securing a place on the general election ballot. If the measure receives a majority of votes, Missouri …

Mel Leonor Barclay Originally published by The 19th Former President Donald Trump said Thursday that he believes abortion will be a “small issue” in the November elections now that the power to ban abortion is in the hands of state lawmakers, but added that he is open to federal restrictions …

A document inadvertently uploaded to the U.S. Supreme Court’s website on Wednesday appears to indicate the court will send a case regarding emergency abortion care in Idaho back to the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals rather than make a decision, according to reporting from Bloomberg Law. Rather than rule on …

Lynne Terry, Oregon Capital Chronicle A slew of Democratic politicians have fired off campaign statements and staged events in Oregon and across the country to mark the second anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court decision against abortion rights. On June 24, 2022, the conservative court ruled 6-3 in favor of …