Showing posts with label Roe v Wade. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Roe v Wade. Show all posts
Saturday, July 11, 2026
Thursday, August 14, 2025
Medication abortions drove up number of US procedures after Roe’s repeal, study shows | US news | The Guardian
Abortion pill provision rates were also more than three times higher in states that ban abortion compared with those that do not…
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/aug/11/medication-abortions-performed-study
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
Wednesday, January 8, 2025
Permanent contraception surged after Roe v Wade overturned, study finds
Young adults living in states likely to ban abortion obtained tubal sterilizations and vasectomies in months after ruling…
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jan/06/permanent-contraception-abortion-roe-v-wade
Tuesday, November 26, 2024
Texas woman dies after receiving inadequate treatment for a miscarriage | Texas | The Guardian
Porsha Ngumezi, 35, is the fifth pregnant woman ProPublica reports to have died in connection to the fall of Roe v Wade…
Thursday, November 21, 2024
Online discussion event: Life and Death in Post-Roe America — ProPublica
On 11/21/2024 — sign up here — This virtual Q&A with reporters Kavitha Surana, Cassandra Jaramillo and Lizzie Presser, and with deputy managing editor Alexandra Zayas, will offer an inside look at ProPublica's reproductive health coverage and our "Post-Roe America" series, reporting on the tremendous upheaval caused by laws that restrict abortion access across the nation...
Saturday, November 2, 2024
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, August 28, 2024
A Louisiana woman told her traumatic story at the DNC. Then the AG dragged her for it.
Doctors across Louisiana have confirmed that our vague laws on this "life of the mother" have made them afraid of providing care for a woman having a miscarriage...
Fact check: Trump, reversing reality, keeps saying ‘everybody’ wanted Roe overturned | CNN Politics
It's not even close to true that "everybody" or "every Democrat" wanted Roe overturned. A large majority of Americans and an overwhelming majority of Democrats wanted the Supreme Court to preserve Roe in 2022, according to numerous polls. Democratic support for Roe exceeded 80% in many polls and 90% in some polls.
"So this is a claim that is unusually brazen in how false it is," said Mary Ziegler, a law professor at the University of California, Davis and an expert on the history of abortion politics...
Thursday, August 15, 2024
Trump's GOP war on abortion has only led to higher abortion rates
But presuming "pro-life voters" are those who "want more than anything else to minimize the number of abortions" begs the question to an incredible, even irresponsible, degree. Voters — and politicians — who oppose abortion have had the same opportunities anyone else does to support access to contraception, sex education, and safety-net programs. But, again and again, they've chosen not to. Perhaps they have other priorities — such as enriching America's modern-day robber barons, attacking transgender kids and adults, or accelerating climate disaster to the benefit of the oil and gas industry…
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, March 9, 2024
Thursday, July 20, 2023
Her obituary requested donations to an abortion clinic. It's a final political act for some | CBC News
Since Roe v. Wade was overturned, a number of people have made donations to the pro-choice movement in Canada…
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…
Wednesday, September 14, 2022
Graham introduces bill to ban abortions nationwide after 15 weeks - The Washington Post
… comes just weeks after he and most Republicans had defended the Supreme Court's decision to overturn Roe by arguing that allowing states to decide on abortion rights would be the most "constitutionally sound" way of handling the issue...
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/09/13/abortion-graham-republicans-nationwide-ban/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/09/13/abortion-graham-republicans-nationwide-ban/
Tuesday, September 13, 2022
Alabama is jailing pregnant marijuana users to ‘protect’ fetuses
The Dobbs decision didn't create this state of affairs, but it's likely to worsen it. The policy in place in Etowah county and elsewhere reveals the warped logic and hateful absurdities of the anti-choice worldview. The movement claims to see embryos and fetuses as persons, and in practice they speak as if these "persons" are not women's equals, but their superiors: the fetus is conceived of as more important than the woman, more worthy, less tainted by those things that make a pregnant woman so unappealing – her femaleness, her sexuality, her tendency to have human desires and human struggles, like irritation or addiction or anger. In the service of protecting and advancing this superior being of the fetus, the anti-choice movement claims, it is justifiable, even necessary, to steal the freedom of those lesser women...
Opinion | Republicans make their Dobbs woes worse - The Washington Post
"Faced with the prospect that the voters were likely against them," anti-choice advocates "tried to prevent people from voting on the issue at all."
Sunday, September 11, 2022
Revealed: Ginni Thomas’s links to anti-abortion groups who lobbied to overturn Roe
Thomas herself has denied any conflict of interest between her activism and her husband's jurisprudence. She told the Washington Free Beacon earlier this year: "We have our own separate careers, and our own ideas and opinions too. Clarence doesn't discuss his work with me, and I don't involve him in my work."
Whether that is true is perhaps a moot point, given that the mere appearance of conflict of interest can in itself damage an institution's reputation. Already, the supreme court is viewed unfavourably by 44% of the American people according to a Pew Research Center poll, with only 16% thinking they do an excellent or good job keeping their personal political views out of their decisions.
"The supreme court is unlike any other branch because it only has its legitimacy to make the public adhere to what it does. Lose that and the court loses the kind of institutional pull that makes the law come together and bind us," Murray said…
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