Showing posts with label Dobbs. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Dobbs. Show all posts
Wednesday, August 5, 2026
Blanche assures anti-abortion supporters that Dobbs will be ‘permanent in every single state’ - POLITICO
The acting attorney general made the remarks during a private call with faith leaders...
Friday, June 26, 2026
How abortion in America has changed since the Dobbs decision : NPR
…But other developments have been surprising, including the role of the internet and the mail in increasing access to abortion, even in those very same states. This year, voters will again consider ballot measures to protect or restrict abortion access across the country. Dramatic stories of medical care denied to pregnant patients continue to unfold across the country.
Here are four things to know about the state of abortion access in America today…
Dobbs Didn’t End Abortion. It Ignited a Movement. – Mother Jones
Abortion sociologist Carole Joffe on the resilience, the gaps, and the legal threats that could unravel everything...
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/06/dobbs-didnt-end-abortion-it-ignited-a-movement/
Friday, July 18, 2025
Republicans wanted fewer abortions and more births. They are getting the opposite | Judith Levine | The Guardian
The rate of voluntary sterilization among young women jumped abruptly after Dobbs, and there's no reason to believe it will drop off…
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jul/17/republicans-abortions-dobbs-births
Wednesday, June 25, 2025
Abortions in the US are on the rise three years after Roe v Wade was overturned
"There's more abortion taking place in Mississippi today than there was prior to Dobbs," said Dr Angel Foster, a co-founder of the Massachusetts Medication Abortion Access Project (Map), which uses shield laws to ship abortion pills out to about 2,500 patients a month. "That really speaks to how little access some folks had to in-clinic abortion care prior to Dobbs and how shield law provision and telemedicine has really stepped into that space."…
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/23/abortions-data-since-roe-wade
Tuesday, June 24, 2025
Senate Democrats to spotlight threats to abortion access on Dobbs anniversary - The Washington Post
In a forum designed to resemble a congressional hearing at the Capitol, Davis will share her story with an audience of Senate Democrats and members of the press alongside other witnesses, including two abortion providers. They will speak about their experiences in the three years since the high court eliminated the nearly 50-year constitutional right to an abortion — part of an ongoing effort from some Democrats to keep steadfast attention on the issue. The event, known as a shadow hearing, allows for a public forum to be held without conducting an official Senate hearing, which would've required approval from Republican leaders who chair committees...
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/06/22/dobbs-anniversary-democrats-gop-abortion/
Thursday, October 17, 2024
New report warns of rise in pregnancy criminalization in Post-Roe America
In fact, most prosecutions documented in the report did not actually involve abortion: Of the 200 cases, only one was prosecuted under a law specifically meant to criminalize abortion. The others involved statutes related to child abuse, neglect or endangerment, which treat an embryo or fetus as a person with legal rights that compete with those of the pregnant person. The report notes that prosecutors often don't need to prove that any actual harm occurred to the fetus, they merely have to demonstrate that a pregnant woman posed some "risk" to her pregnancy.
That includes the case of Amari Marsh, a 23-year-old South Carolina woman who miscarried in June 2023. After miscarrying, she was arrested and charged with "murder/homicide by child abuse." Marsh spent 22 days in jail before being placed under house arrest. She faced 20 years in prison. It was more than a year later that she was finally cleared by a grand jury and told that her case would not proceed to trial.
And that is what happens when you criminalize abortion: You criminalize pregnant women. When the state has a controlling stake in every pregnant woman's body, every miscarriage is a potential prosecution. …
Wednesday, July 10, 2024
Support rising for access to abortions for any reason: Survey
A solid majority of respondents — 61 percent — in the June survey say that their state should allow someone to obtain a legal abortion if "the person does not want to be pregnant for any reason."
That represents a 12 point increase from the 49 percent who held that view in a June 2021 survey, which was conducted one year before the Supreme Court overturned the federal right to an abortion in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization…
The rise in such support extends across the political spectrum and gender divide…
Saturday, January 27, 2024
Nearly 65,000 US rape victims could not get an abortion in their state, analysis shows
Researchers estimated likely number of rape-related pregnancies in 14 states with near-total abortion bans since Dobbs ruling…
Tuesday, October 3, 2023
Freedom of speech may be anti-abortion judges' next target
If the justices were willing to reinvent abortion jurisprudence, why not free speech law?
Thursday, September 14, 2023
The End of Roe Is Having a Chilling Effect on Pregnancy - POLITICO
New polling shows that a third of young women say they have decided not to get pregnant because of concerns about maternal health care after Dobbs...
Thursday, June 15, 2023
Record-high 69 percent in new poll say first-trimester abortion should be legal | The Hill
Support for abortion access in the second and third trimester of pregnancy also reached an all-time high, according to the surve…
The poll finds support for at least some legal abortion, increasing polarization : NPR
A year after Dobbs, 61% of respondents said overturning Roe was a "bad thing," while 38% said it was a "good thing." …
Thursday, April 27, 2023
Thursday, February 23, 2023
No more "thoughts & prayers" (Dan Barker and Annie Laurie Gaylor, Freethought Radio podcast)
Amy Hagstrom Miller, with Whole Woman’s Health Alliance, tells us about the devastation to abortion access wrought by the Supreme Court’s Dobbs decision. We hear jazz singer Tahira Clayton perform freethinking composer Jerome Kern's song "I'm Old Fashioned," and we cover many local, national and international stories about religion and government.
Interview:
Wednesday, February 8, 2023
A federal judge’s hilarious attempt to troll the Supreme Court on abortion, in United States v. Handy - Vox
A Democratic federal judge suggests that banning abortion violates the 13th Amendment's prohibition on "involuntary servitude."…:format(webp)/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_image/image/71950788/526768574.0.jpg)
Friday, November 18, 2022
Georgia six-week abortion ban: Judge blocks the law, criticizing Alito.
Certainly, McBurney did not attempt to conceal his own contempt for Dobbs. The pointed quotation marks ("historical 'facts' ") gesture toward the majority's butchering of history. The sardonic quips indicate displeasure with Justice Samuel Alito's strident and angry assault on women's equality. But this rhetoric should not distract from McBurney's fundamentally sound conclusion. Georgia wants the courts to adopt the legal fiction that Roe and Casey were never really law. Under Georgia Supreme Court precedent, courts cannot oblige. The LIFE Act was "void at birth," so it cannot "somehow spring to life because of a change in constitutional exegesis coming from a higher court."…
In that sense, the void ab initio doctrine is a tool of accountability. Lawmakers cannot evade responsibility for their votes by enacting an unconstitutional law on the hunch that, at some point in the future, five justices will change the meaning of the Constitution. McBurney's ruling is not "judicial supremacy run amok," as Georgia lawyers complained. It is a straightforward requirement that the legislature's acts comply with the Constitution that exists at that moment rather than the Constitution it hopes will exist in the future…
Monday, October 24, 2022
‘I’m deadly serious’: why filmmaker Michael Moore is confident of a Democratic midterm win | US midterm elections 2022 | The Guardian
Moore predicts the election will see a record turnout of younger voters whose views pundits and commentators often miss. "If you spend any time with women, the Dobbs decision struck them personally and deeply. This was a religious edict based on conservative Catholic principles."…
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/oct/23/michael-moore-democratic-party-win-midterm-interview
Tuesday, October 18, 2022
Analysis: Theory vs. reality. The Dobbs ruling and women's health - Ohio Capital Journal
When the U.S. Supreme Court in June overturned abortion protections in Roe v Wade, the majority wrote that it's up to the states to decide whether to allow abortions, restrict them or to ban them altogether. In other words, the six justices were saying that the U.S. Constitution gives no more protections to people who can get pregnant than it does to a zygote, the cell that's formed when a human sperm fuses with a human egg…
Saturday, October 15, 2022
Supreme deceit: How Alito snuck medieval state Christianity into the Dobbs opinion - Raw Story - Celebrating 18 Years of Independent Journalism
"Unless he was sleepwalking, Alito understood perfectly well that he was committing a gross material omission, obscuring the fact that the "penalty" in this medieval text was merely religious and penitential, not civil or criminal. Religious "crimes" are not crimes at all, by our modern legal standards."
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