• New Chatbot Connects Abortion Seekers With Care Options Mashable, September 12, 2023 A chatbot launching Tuesday aims to give users confidential, accurate information when seeking abortion care. (nationalpartnership.org)
  • Moreover, part of the funding is dedicated to protecting patients' personal data seeking abortion care regardless of state residency status. (younginvincibles.org)
  • Minnesota Women's Press spoke with three Minnesota clinic leaders, two telehealth-based medication abortion providers, as well as the team at Our Justice , a donor-funded organization that supports people seeking abortion care in Minnesota. (womenspress.com)
  • Not having access to paid sick days is especially problematic for women seeking abortion care because restrictive laws make such care difficult to obtain and force women to expend more time and resources than are needed to access other health care services. (nationalpartnership.org)
  • Soon patients asked if he would perform abortions, like his father did. (ourbodiesourselves.org)
  • Doctors who perform abortions say they're seeing a lot more interest in sterilization procedures in the wake of the Supreme Court's decision overturning Roe v. Wade and not just in states that have already banned or severely restricted access to abortion care. (kvnf.org)
  • The proposed rule ensures that no providers that receive Title X funding could offer an abortion or present a list of providers that perform abortions unless a "women who is currently pregnant clearly states that she has already decided to have an abortion. (kirklandreporter.com)
  • Over the weekend, Michigan's largest health system grappled with this issue as it rolled back a previous statement following Friday's ruling that it would only perform abortions to save the life of the mother. (healthcaredive.com)
  • As another of the states bordering Illinois is set to enact a near-total abortion ban this week, Gov. JB Pritzker on July 31 announced several new programs to help address the influx of out-of-state abortion seekers the state has seen in the 13 months since the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade . (nationalpartnership.org)
  • most people don't know what happened to the law when the Supreme Court legalized abortion in Roe v. Wade and Doe v. Bolton in 1973 for any reason, at any time of pregnancy, in all 50 states, throwing out all abortion laws on the books with the stroke of a pen. (lifenews.com)
  • As Harvard law professor Laurence Tribe wrote in 1973: "In Roe v. Wade and Doe v. Bolton (the court) impos(ed) limits on permissible abortion legislation so severe that no abortion law in the United States remained valid. (lifenews.com)
  • Second, they contend that abortion providers in some states have voluntarily adopted abortion limits late in pregnancy, which does not rebut the legality of the procedure under Roe v. Wade and Doe v. Bolton in other locations. (lifenews.com)
  • The poll was conducted in late June, one year after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, undoing a nationwide right to abortion that had been in place for nearly 50 years. (centralmaine.com)
  • One thing few people have been talking about since Roe v. Wade was overturned is how abortion restrictions will affect young girls across the United States. (kenw.org)
  • Now, with the overturning of Roe v. Wade , young people who begin to menstruate will also need to learn early on how to recognize a missed period as soon as possible. (kenw.org)
  • Her colleagues haven't skipped a beat, continuing her work to provide safe abortions, but she will certainly be missed by those in the reproductive rights movement who have counted on her steadfast commitment since Roe v. Wade became law. (feminist.org)
  • The five states that allowed abortion in 1970 experienced declines earlier than the rest of the nation, which legalized in 1973 with Roe v. Wade. (repec.org)
  • Although Missouri was the fastest state to ban abortion after Roe v. Wade was overturned, access hasn't shifted much because the state "was already in a post- Roe world. (kcur.org)
  • Several states had trigger laws set to ban or restrict abortion services once Roe v. Wade was overturned. (healthcaredive.com)
  • On the day of the leaked draft of the Supreme Court decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, a woman named Nora was at home in her one-bedroom apartment getting through a medical abortion. (whqr.org)
  • Since 1993, 11 people have been killed in abortion-related attacks - doctors, clinic staff, and last week, a police officer and two visitors in the line of fire at a Planned Parenthood clinic in Colorado Springs. (truthout.org)
  • We thought about the fact that the voters were very clear in the fact that they want providers able to speak directly and honestly to their patients," said Emily Wales, president and CEO of Planned Parenthood Great Plains, one of the providers filing the lawsuit. (cbs42.com)
  • A new lawsuit was filed Thursday in Columbia by providers including Planned Parenthood, which operates clinics in Charleston and Columbia, and Greenville Women's Clinic. (live5news.com)
  • Planned Parenthood said moving the ban to nine weeks from six weeks is the difference between turning away half of its patients seeking abortions and 90% of them, based on data Planned Parenthood said it has collected at its clinics since the new law went into effect last month. (live5news.com)
  • And while abortion advocates claim that generally these are done when an infant has some kind of health issue, a former Planned Parenthood director reports that no such requirement existed. (lifenews.com)
  • This would "make it impossible for patients to get birth control or preventive care from reproductive health care providers like Planned Parenthood," Rogers wrote. (kirklandreporter.com)
  • Since the Trump administration finalized a gag rule banning organizations that get money through Title X from providing or referring patients for abortions, Planned Parenthood has withdrawn from Title X . This sort of rule will seriously impact low-income women, because all Planned Parenthood centers will be barred from getting funding that helps provide affordable contraception, STI testing, and other services in addition to abortions. (beaconbroadside.com)
  • It's an apt comparison in the eyes of black anti-abortion activists, many of whom argue that Planned Parenthood founder Margaret Sanger was a supporter of eugenics who, some say, worked to intentionally lower the black birth rate. (vox.com)
  • This is going to be an information-packed hour that you don't want to miss ... ... and a lot of it revolves around the largest abortion provider in the United States -- Planned Parenthood. (40daysforlife.com)
  • a total of 288 individual, peaceful 40 Days for Life vigils were held outside Planned Parenthood offices in 2016, with faithful volunteers praying for the conversion of the abortion workers as well as for the safety of the mothers and their babies. (40daysforlife.com)
  • The media continues to promote the fiction that Planned Parenthood -- an organization that performed 323,999 abortions in its last reported year -- provides vital health services for women, who could be left with no other options if Planned Parenthood were to go away. (40daysforlife.com)
  • At an event organized by the Johnson County Democratic Party and Kansas Democrats, demonstrators lined up on College Boulevard and Roe Avenue near a Planned Parenthood facility to rally for the right to abortion access. (kcur.org)
  • Health experts have roundly backed abortion access advocates in their assertion that laws of this nature are both medically unnecessary and dangerous to women. (mediamatters.org)
  • Abortion providers sued Kansas on Tuesday, June 6, 2023, challenging a new law requiring them to tell patients that an abortion medication can be stopped but also existing restrictions that include a decades-old requirement that patients wait 24 hours to terminate their pregnancies. (cbs42.com)
  • TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) - Abortion providers sued Kansas on Tuesday over a law enacted this year and existing restrictions, including a decades-old requirement that patients wait 24 hours after first seeing a provider to terminate their pregnancies. (cbs42.com)
  • We shouldn't have to sue the state of Minnesota twice for the basic right to access abortion, but the restrictions that lawmakers have quietly passed force many people to disrupt their whole lives just to access basic health care. (minnpost.com)
  • As we move through the discovery phase of the lawsuit and prepare for a trial in 2022, these restrictions will keep harming people's ability to access abortion care - following a long history of people in power telling marginalized people what they can and can't do with their bodies. (minnpost.com)
  • Maine could face significant restrictions on abortion access if a recent Texas appeals court decision is upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court. (centralmaine.com)
  • The groundswell of support for abortion rights nationwide is forcing reassessment and soul-searching by those in pursuit of restrictions and bans. (centralmaine.com)
  • Sociologist Sarah Roberts has undertaken a deep inquiry into how abortion restrictions affect women's actual decisions. (beaconbroadside.com)
  • For women living in the 31 states that Aid Access counts as having tighter abortion restrictions , Gomperts sends the prescriptions to a pharmacist in India, who then mails the pills directly to patients in the US. (vox.com)
  • How did the change in state abortion restrictions affect your work? (womenspress.com)
  • Consistent with the draft majority opinion authored by Justice Samuel Alito that was leaked to Politico in early May, the Court overruled Roe and Casey and held that there is no federal constitutional right to obtain an abortion and that abortion restrictions are subject to rational basis review. (mwe.com)
  • In Louisiana and Utah, judges put temporary holds on abortion restrictions and bans with future court dates set to decide the issue. (healthcaredive.com)
  • Kansas voters in August 2022 decisively affirmed abortion rights, refusing to overturn a state Supreme Court decision three years earlier that declared access to abortion a matter of bodily autonomy and a fundamental right under the state constitution. (cbs42.com)
  • Last year's vote and the 2019 state Supreme Court decision mean that Kansas lawmakers cannot greatly restrict or ban abortion, in sharp contrast to other states with Republican-controlled Legislatures following the U.S. Supreme Court's Dobbs decision against abortion rights in June 2022. (cbs42.com)
  • BOLTON: But after the Supreme Court decision to overturn federal abortion protections leaked in May, she found a doctor who would sterilize her. (kvnf.org)
  • Abortion providers say in this new lawsuit, they are asking the state Supreme Court to answer a narrow but essential question: When, exactly, does South Carolina ban abortion? (live5news.com)
  • Abortion providers have already asked the Supreme Court to answer this question when they requested a rehearing last month, following justices' decision to uphold the law. (live5news.com)
  • For example, in 1996 , a federal appeals court struck down Ohio's law that limited abortion after fetal viability, and the Supreme Court justices refused to hear Ohio's appeal. (lifenews.com)
  • Legal scholars know that the Supreme Court legalized abortion for any reason, at any time of pregnancy, and the federal courts actively enforce that policy on the states. (lifenews.com)
  • The Supreme Court temporarily blocked implementation of two provisions of Texas' extreme efforts to restrict abortion through a targeted regulation of abortion providers (TRAP) law. (mediamatters.org)
  • The Minnesota Supreme Court made clear that we have a constitutional right to access abortion. (minnpost.com)
  • We also knew that the Supreme Court had taken up the Dobbs case and that the North Dakota legislature would no doubt attack abortion rights [if Roe fell], so the writing was on the wall. (womenspress.com)
  • I suspect most of these extreme abortion bills that are getting passed lately are simply Supreme Court bait. (metafilter.com)
  • Under 50 years of Supreme Court precedent, this abortion ban is clearly unconstitutional," Young said in a recent interview with The Associated Press. (metafilter.com)
  • While the U.S. Supreme Court has not yet accepted the Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine's case against the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, the high court already has involved itself by temporarily blocking a federal appellate court decision that would restrict the use of the abortion pill mifepristone. (penncapital-star.com)
  • A year ago this week, the Supreme Court overturned the constitutional right to abortion, and since then, more than a dozen states have banned abortion. (kcur.org)
  • Myers has put together a map exploring how access might change further if medication abortion was limited through the legal system, as a federal case makes its way to the Supreme Court . (kcur.org)
  • With the Supreme Court ruling Friday to overturn the federal right to abortion, states are facing rulings from other courts that will regulate which abortion services providers can continue. (healthcaredive.com)
  • A total of 26 states are certain or likely to ban abortion in the wake of Friday's decision from the Supreme Court, according to the Guttmacher Institute. (healthcaredive.com)
  • As many U.S. states gear up to restrict abortion access in anticipation of the Supreme Court decision, the physicians, midwives and nurse practitioners behind these services are preparing for an even bigger surge in demand. (whqr.org)
  • [ 1 ] Accurate statistics have been kept since the enactment of the 1973 US Supreme Court decisions legalizing abortions. (medscape.com)
  • Since the landmark 1973 US Supreme Court decision legalizing abortion, hundreds of laws, federal and state, have been proposed or passed, making this the most actively litigated and highly publicized area in the field of medicine. (medscape.com)
  • If you want to get an abortion in Minnesota, you'll first have to make it past the multiple-week scheduling delay at most local clinics - lawmakers have severely restricted the number of people who can provide abortions, creating a gap between people who need abortions and people who can provide them. (minnpost.com)
  • She gathered data about facilities - including clinics, doctors, and hospitals, that publicly indicated that they provide abortions - going back to 2009, using data licensure databases, directories, and Wayback Machine captures of websites from years past. (kcur.org)
  • It resurged publicly in South Dakota in 2011 when a " justifiable homicide " bill allegedly meant to allow family members to kill an alleged attacker to defend a pregnant person from violence was alarmingly vague enough to potentially allow abortion opponents to murder those who provide abortions, too. (damemagazine.com)
  • Meanwhile, court battles are ongoing over Republican attempts to restrict abortion in Iowa and Wisconsin. (nationalpartnership.org)
  • People who testify against anti-abortion activists may face retaliation. (truthout.org)
  • They're connected, just like the #MeToo movement and abortion activists. (newsbusters.org)
  • It allows complete strangers, anti-abortion activists, to sue and interfere with the patient's decision," Hearron said. (texastribune.org)
  • While anti-abortion activism has attempted to link abortion to racism for decades, the argument that abortion poses a unique threat to black lives has seen an increase in attention in recent years, the result of a collaboration between the conservative black church, black anti-abortion activists, and some white anti-abortion organizations. (vox.com)
  • I spoke with Richen about the film and medical racism, how the anti-abortion movement moved faster on racial outreach than some reproductive rights groups, and why black anti-abortion activists embraced the election of Donald Trump. (vox.com)
  • In 1993, one of her clinic doctors, David Gunn, was the first provider to be assassinated by an anti-abortion extremist. (feminist.org)
  • We see every day how multiple barriers impact people seeking abortions, and how their impacts disproportionately fall on Black people, Indigenous people, people of color, queer and trans people, and disabled people. (minnpost.com)
  • As one of the oldest abortion funds in the Midwest, we see every day how these barriers impact people seeking abortions, and how their impacts disproportionately fall on Black people, Indigenous people, people of color, queer and trans people, and disabled people. (minnpost.com)
  • More than 80% of people seeking abortions in one large influential study had subprime credit scores, so this is not a population that just hops on a plane easily. (kcur.org)
  • Among practicing obstetricians and gynecologists in the United States, 97% encountered patients seeking abortions, whereas only 14% performed them. (medscape.com)
  • Abortion remains legal in Montana, but there is a push by state Republicans to overturn the state Constitution's right to privacy, which has protected abortion care for decades. (kvnf.org)
  • Early medical abortion will be defined in this presentation by termination of pregnancies with Mifepristone/Misoprostol when no visible gestational sac is visible on ultrasound. (fiapac.org)
  • Very early medical abortion will be defined by termination of pregnancies before the date of expected menstruation. (fiapac.org)
  • Providers are reluctant to provide medical abortion so early mainly because of the fear of a missed diagnosis of ectopic pregnancy. (fiapac.org)
  • Arguments will be presented to reassure providers about the possibility to provide early medical abortion safely. (fiapac.org)
  • A protocol for follow up of early medical abortion will be presented based on correct information given to the women (especially symptoms that must induce a visit to the emergency service) and serum HCG testing seven days after the medical abortion. (fiapac.org)
  • The second argument is the possibility of a reduced efficacy of medical abortion in the early period of pregnancy which was suggested in one study. (fiapac.org)
  • Finally very early medical abortion will also be considered in this presentation on the basis of recent studies. (fiapac.org)
  • Early medical abortion using mifepristone and misoprostol requires less provider involvement, is highly effective and can largely be managed by women themselves. (fiapac.org)
  • Abortion rights advocates have long viewed the 24-hour waiting period as medically unnecessary and something that either increases patients' travel or forces them to arrange an overnight stay and childcare. (cbs42.com)
  • Since then, numerous abortion advocates denied that reality with rebuttals that ignore the law. (lifenews.com)
  • Yet abortion advocates obfuscate the legal reality of abortion's late-term availability with five unresponsive rebuttals. (lifenews.com)
  • Media coverage of Texas' restrictive anti-abortion legislation often presents a false equivalence between arguments from proponents of the legislation and women's health advocates, despite medical experts agreement that such measures are dangerous to women. (mediamatters.org)
  • In the tradition of our previous conferences, "Meet the Abortion Providers" and "Abortion: The Inside Story" , the League gathered eight former abortion workers to tell the stories of why they left the abortion industry and became advocates for life. (prolifeaction.org)
  • In connecting abortion access in the present to the harms of the past, black pro-choice advocates say the black anti-abortion movement ignores women's agency . (vox.com)
  • To expand Illinois' capacity to care for the sharp increase in abortion-seekers, the state's Department of Public Health will spend $10 million to create a hotline to aid callers in finding providers and making appointments. (nationalpartnership.org)
  • The state's spending plan also included $8 million in additional training for reproductive health care providers and a specialty consultation program for at-risk patients. (nationalpartnership.org)
  • Wales added that the newest restriction caused the providers to look at the state's requirements more broadly: "This addition would really harm patients potentially, so we felt compelled to do something. (cbs42.com)
  • With today's lawsuit, the profit-driven abortion industry has launched an unprecedented attack on a woman's right to informed consent before an abortion is performed on her," Danielle Underwood, spokesperson for Kansans for Life, the state's most influential anti-abortion group, said in a statement. (cbs42.com)
  • The state's new ban on most abortions after about 6 weeks of pregnancy is blocked days after Gov. Kim Reynolds signed the measure into law. (centralmaine.com)
  • This law bars doctors at the University of Oklahoma hospital-the state's leading health-care center-from providing abortions for any reasons other than rape, incest, or medical necessity. (beaconbroadside.com)
  • FILE - Zoe Schell, from Topeka, Kan., stands on the steps of the Kansas Statehouse during a rally to protest the Supreme Court's ruling on abortion, June 24, 2022, in Topeka. (cbs42.com)
  • Trigger bans took effect on Thursday, August 25, 2022, in Tennessee, Idaho, and Texas, banning abortion from conception in Tennessee and Idaho and enacting harsher penalties for providers in Texas. (contemporaryobgyn.net)
  • The Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine is a group of four anti-abortion organizations and four doctors that formed in 2022 and incorporated in Amarillo, Texas. (penncapital-star.com)
  • Bottles of the drug misoprostol sit on a table at the West Alabama Women's Center on Tuesday, March 15, 2022 in Tuscaloosa, Ala. Telehealth abortions are medication-based abortions that generally rely on a two-drug combination. (whqr.org)
  • In recent years, that state enacted a law requiring a twenty-four-hour waiting period, and another law banning the use of telemedicine by abortion providers. (beaconbroadside.com)
  • Over the past four years, Aid Access says it has delivered abortion medication - mifepristone and misoprostol - to more than 30,000 Americans across all 50 states, including the 19 conservative states that currently ban telemedicine abortion. (vox.com)
  • Telemedicine abortion actually folds into normal, everyday experiences that abortion care couldn't otherwise do. (whqr.org)
  • Reeves was similarly unsparing in his assessment of a Mississippi law that bans abortions after 15 weeks. (freebeacon.com)
  • New analysis of Census Bureau data shows largest wage gap in Utah, lowest in District of Columbia WASHINGTON, D.C. - September 19, 2023 - In case you missed it, the National Partnership for Women & Families released updated state-by-state analysis of. (nationalpartnership.org)
  • Abortions Rose in Most States This Year, New Data Shows The New York Times, September 7, 2023 Legal abortions most likely increased in the United States in the first six months of the year compared with 2020, an analysis of new estimates shows, as states with more. (nationalpartnership.org)
  • The representation gap - even more significant for women of color - poses a huge barrier to ensuring policies that support state-level abortion access WASHINGTON, D.C. - November 28, 2023 - In a newly released report, Democracy & Abortion. (nationalpartnership.org)
  • In Senate testimony, NPWF President Jocelyn C. Frye called for U.S. to stop lagging behind and make national comprehensive paid leave a reality for all workers Watch Frye's Testimony Here WASHINGTON, D.C. - October 25, 2023 - In case you missed it, today. (nationalpartnership.org)
  • Here we are, approaching the end of 2023, and women are still without abortion rights nationwide, working parents. (nationalpartnership.org)
  • As of April 2023, she says, 14% of the population is more than 200 miles from the nearest abortion facility, and the average American is 86 miles from a provider. (kcur.org)
  • The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists and the American Health Association condemned such measures in a joint amicus brief, writing that the measure to be implemented in Texas "jeopardize[s] the health of women" and "denies them access" to safe abortions. (mediamatters.org)
  • We do this work because even though Doe v. Gomez ruled that Minnesotans have a right to abortion access, legislators continue to pass laws intended to make it as difficult as possible to access this essential, life affirming care. (minnpost.com)
  • This act is a more comprehensive package that not only increases funding for abortion access but ensures accessibility to abortion services for non-NY residents, further protecting NY as a sanctuary state. (younginvincibles.org)
  • Besides the waiting period, the lawsuit challenges a law set to take effect July 1 that will require providers to tell patients that a medication abortion can be stopped using a regimen that major medical groups have called unproven and potentially dangerous. (cbs42.com)
  • The medication abortion-reversal regimen, touted for more than a decade by abortion opponents, uses doses of a hormone, progesterone, commonly used in attempts to prevent miscarriages. (cbs42.com)
  • This funding will increase Medicaid reimbursements and require private insurers to cover medication abortion when prescribed off-label for abortion. (younginvincibles.org)
  • Dutch physician Rebecca Gomperts, shown here in 2020, founded the nonprofit Aid Access in March 2018 to provide abortion medication to women in the US. (vox.com)
  • As an emergency physician, I signed onto this amicus brief to take a stand against this political attack on medication abortions. (penncapital-star.com)
  • That would include the ability for providers to prescribe the medication via telehealth or send the medication in the mail, and it would decrease the time limit from 10 weeks of pregnancy to seven weeks. (penncapital-star.com)
  • HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra said Tuesday his department was working to increase access to medication abortion, ensure patient and provider privacy and support clinical decisions of physicians. (healthcaredive.com)
  • Telehealth abortions are medication-based abortions that generally rely on a two-drug combination. (whqr.org)
  • By 2020 medication-based abortions accounted for just over half of abortions in the United States . (whqr.org)
  • 87 providers in 34 states - clinic owners, doctors, and other employees. (truthout.org)
  • Abortion foes have employed similar tactics to dig up information about clinic patients, as ProPublica reported this summer. (truthout.org)
  • D.C.: The problem is that a lot of people in the legal system don't understand the lives of abortion providers, so they ask them to turn over information about the clinic, about their personal lives, as part of the discovery process, and that information can be used to revictimize them. (truthout.org)
  • Now facing eight counts of murder for botched abortions and infantcide, Gosnell's West Philadelphia clinic was a house of horrors for women seeking abortions. (whyy.org)
  • Although the Trust Women Seattle clinic does not receive Title X funding, the proposed rule that bars medical professionals from referring women to the clinic or any other abortion provider in Seattle makes "resources and information on health care all the more difficult to get. (kirklandreporter.com)
  • Before moving, Red River was the only clinic providing abortions in North Dakota. (womenspress.com)
  • One militant anti-abortion protestor who torched Hill's New Jersey clinic came back to repeat the act two weeks later because it hadn't been completely destroyed. (feminist.org)
  • After Tiller's clinic, one of the few venues offering late abortions, was closed following his murder, Hill quietly talked with other providers about a possible network to provide late abortions in several locations around the country. (feminist.org)
  • It would also require patients to see providers at three separate clinic appointments in person, which would be especially difficult for those traveling from one of the 14 states with abortion bans to access care. (penncapital-star.com)
  • The speakers at this conference spanned the full range of roles in the abortion business, from receptionist to abortionist, from clinic managers to abortion counselors. (prolifeaction.org)
  • He said he was at an abortion clinic in St. Louis when the decision came down Friday. (healthcaredive.com)
  • Citizens who file such suits would not need to have a connection to an abortion provider or a person seeking an abortion or even reside in Texas. (texastribune.org)
  • Jackson Women's Health Organization and one of its physicians (the Respondents) challenged the Mississippi law in the US District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi, alleging that it violated precedents establishing a constitutional right to abortion, including Roe and Casey . (mwe.com)
  • But abortion providers argue that "cardiac activity" and the "rhythmic contractions of the fetal heart" in the legislative text could refer to two separate points in a pregnancy because most of the heart isn't formed until nine weeks. (live5news.com)
  • In the new lawsuit, abortion providers are asking the court to rule that the "fetal heartbeat" ban should go into effect after nine weeks into a pregnancy, when most of the heart has formed. (live5news.com)
  • It is always legal, by federal law, to have an abortion through all nine months of pregnancy. (lifenews.com)
  • Donald Trump, in the third presidential debate, stated that a woman can get an abortion in the U.S. through all nine months of pregnancy . (lifenews.com)
  • In 2013 , the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit struck down the limit on abortions at five months of pregnancy passed by Arizona, and the justices refused to hear Arizona's appeal in January 2014. (lifenews.com)
  • In 2013, in Indiana, a woman got drugs over the Internet and did a late-term abortion on herself, delivering a baby alive at six to seven months of pregnancy. (lifenews.com)
  • The latest figures show that about 1.3% of 1 million annual abortions , or about 13,000 a year, were done in the 21st week of pregnancy of later. (lifenews.com)
  • Fourth, they say some states have abortion limits after about five months of pregnancy , which ignores the fact that many states have no such limits. (lifenews.com)
  • The reality is that it is legal to have an abortion through all nine months of pregnancy, even though not all abortion clinics do such gruesome procedures. (lifenews.com)
  • There is also a possibility that Title X funding could be redirected to Crisis Pregnancy Centers (CPCs) that counsel women against having an abortion. (kirklandreporter.com)
  • The new law, signed during a ceremony at the State House Wednesday, allows abortions later in pregnancy and is one of the least restrictive state laws in the nation. (centralmaine.com)
  • Yet unless this pregnant woman has money to pay for a private abortion-which by mid-trimester, when these anomalies typically are discovered, will cost thousands, rather than hundreds, of dollars-she must continue her pregnancy. (beaconbroadside.com)
  • If you're early enough in your pregnancy and deemed eligible, then you're referred to a provider. (vox.com)
  • This includes not only those providers who furnish pregnancy termination services, but also those that provide advice, operational support or other assistance to providers. (mwe.com)
  • Under current law, women in Georgia can seek an abortion during the first 20 weeks of a pregnancy. (metafilter.com)
  • Around 85% of those who obtain abortions in Texas are at least six weeks into their pregnancy, according to a press release from the Whole Woman's Health Alliance, a lead plaintiff in the suit. (texastribune.org)
  • The results of most pregnancy tests are not reliable until after an individual has already missed a period at four weeks of pregnancy. (penncapital-star.com)
  • Therefore, CDC recommends that health care providers use these criteria to assess pregnancy status in a woman who is about to start using contraceptives ( Box 2 ). (cdc.gov)
  • If a woman meets one of these criteria (and therefore the health care provider can be reasonably certain that she is not pregnant), a urine pregnancy test might be considered in addition to these criteria (based on clinical judgment), bearing in mind the limitations of the accuracy of pregnancy testing. (cdc.gov)
  • If a woman does not meet any of these criteria, then the health care provider cannot be reasonably certain that she is not pregnant, even with a negative pregnancy test. (cdc.gov)
  • After a spontaneous or an induced abortion, ovulation can occur within 2-3 weeks and has been found to occur as early as 8-13 days after the end of the pregnancy. (cdc.gov)
  • Although pregnancy tests often are performed before initiating contraception, the accuracy of qualitative urine pregnancy tests varies depending on the timing of the test relative to missed menses, recent sexual intercourse, or recent pregnancy. (cdc.gov)
  • However, pregnancy detection rates can vary widely because of differences in test sensitivity and the timing of testing relative to missed menses ( 30 , 32 ). (cdc.gov)
  • Qualitative tests also might have positive results for several weeks after termination of pregnancy because hCG can be present for several weeks after delivery or abortion (spontaneous or induced) ( 33 - 35 ). (cdc.gov)
  • The extremist group Abolish Human Abortion's own platform argues that after "abortion abolition" doctors should "immediately" receive the death penalty for terminating a pregnancy, whereas for the pregnant person, "we should slowly ramp up the severity of the penalties, such that a woman who seeks out an abortion one week after abolition would be punished less severely than a woman who seeks out an abortion 20 years afterwards. (damemagazine.com)
  • More than 40% of all women will end a pregnancy by abortion at some time in their reproductive lives. (medscape.com)
  • Missing a period is usually the first signal of a new pregnancy, although women with irregular periods may not initially recognize a missed period as pregnancy. (medscape.com)
  • when using home pregnancy tests, it is best to wait 1 week after a missed period for a more accurate result. (medscape.com)
  • Cramping that is different from previous pregnancies, worsening cramping, or cramping associated with any vaginal bleeding may be a sign of ectopic pregnancy, threatened abortion, or missed abortion. (medscape.com)
  • As the map from decade ago shows, people who had to travel 200 miles or more to access abortion care then largely lived in rural parts of the country where health care in general is sparse. (kcur.org)
  • Operation Rescue, the militant anti-abortion group that harassed George Tiller for years, released a statement that read in part: "Operation Rescue has worked for years through peaceful, legal means, and through the proper channels to see him brought to justice. (ourbodiesourselves.org)
  • Some of them are sitting on the couch, breastfeeding their infants," says Phifer, whose organization currently provides abortion pills to patients in 21 states. (whqr.org)
  • N.M.: And sometimes it's the legal process that makes providers vulnerable, right? (truthout.org)
  • Using the legal system can be a powerful tool for abortion providers, but it's a dangerous tool, too. (truthout.org)
  • That is apparently the way you asked for an abortion from your regular doctor before abortion was legal. (ourbodiesourselves.org)
  • COLUMBIA, S.C. (WCSC) - South Carolina's restrictive ban on abortion has been hit with another legal challenge from abortion providers. (live5news.com)
  • We won't stand for that, because we know we deserve a world where we all have the power, autonomy, and resources to make decisions about our own bodies - including safe, legal, accessible abortion care. (minnpost.com)
  • Because physicians on military bases are prohibited from providing abortion care, servicewomen are often forced to choose between taking leave and traveling far distances to an American provider, seeking services from a local, unfamiliar health care facility (if abortion is legal and they are not in a combat zone), having an unsafe procedure, or attempting to self-induce an abortion. (vivalafeminista.com)
  • I want every woman who serves this country to have their legal right to abortion met in every military hospital. (vivalafeminista.com)
  • Shortages of providers of surgical abortion methods are a significant barrier to safe abortion care across diverse settings where abortion is legal. (fiapac.org)
  • If the stakes weren't already high enough, Hill and other abortion providers have also had to face constant legal battles aimed at limiting abortion access. (feminist.org)
  • You can't leave it to your sisters of color to drag your pasty butts into the promised land of free sex changes, condoms for elderly nuns and legal abortion until Tee Ball. (newsbusters.org)
  • And while polling doesn't fully capture the complex viewpoints a large segment of the public has about abortion, in polls of the issue, black Americans still overwhelmingly say that abortion should be legal in most cases. (vox.com)
  • With abortion rights now up to individual states, legal experts have said a chaotic environment will follow as providers try to understand how various laws will be implemented and enforced. (healthcaredive.com)
  • It's 2018 and yes, we are deep in a debate not on whether abortion is a legal, constitutionally guaranteed right (it is), but over exactly how a person should be punished if the GOP ever successfully manages to strip that right away. (damemagazine.com)
  • Candidates ran on platforms of ignoring state and federal laws and stating they would "kill" in order to stop legal abortions. (damemagazine.com)
  • Worldwide, some 20-30 million legal abortions are performed annually, with another 10-20 million abortions performed illegally (see The Alan Guttmacher Institute ). (medscape.com)
  • Abortion is now banned or severely restricted in half of U.S. states, including in the four that border Minnesota. (womenspress.com)
  • or induce an abortion of an unborn human being if the probable gestational age of the unborn human being has been determined to be greater than fifteen (15) weeks. (mwe.com)
  • It was first tested in Lubbock, with a voter-approved city ordinance that outlaws abortions and empowers "the unborn child's mother, father, grandparents, siblings and half-siblings" to sue for anyone who helps another person get an abortion. (texastribune.org)
  • It was at the heart of the " Defensive Action Statement " signed by 33 abortion opponents in the 1990s arguing that it should be considered justified to kill an abortion provider "for the purpose of defending the lives of unborn children. (damemagazine.com)
  • Then, in 2017, the state house passed a resolution declaring abortion "murder" and demanding legislators "stop the murder of innocent unborn children by abortion. (damemagazine.com)
  • In 2018, more than two decades after Dutch physician Rebecca Gomperts first became an activist to deliver abortion pills around the world , she turned to the United States. (vox.com)
  • Texas tried to make abortion a criminal offense in 2017 , with bill sponsor Tony Tinderholt saying jail time for women would make them " more personally responsible ," and currently a Florida initiative to designate abortion (and some birth control) as first-degree murder has been proposed for the 2018 election ballot. (damemagazine.com)
  • In 2018, WHO issued a global handbook to help providers of family planning to address these major reasons for non-use of contraception. (who.int)
  • In 2018, WHO launched a clinical handbook on female genital mutilation that provides practical advice to health care providers on how to communicate with patients to prevent the practice and how to provide appropriate care for health complications related to the practice. (who.int)
  • The law bans most abortions after the detection of a "fetal heartbeat," which Republican lawmakers defined in the legislation as "cardiac activity, or the steady and repetitive rhythmic contraction of the fetal heart, within the gestational sac. (live5news.com)
  • On Tuesday, Georgia Republican Gov. Brian Kemp signed a "fetal heartbeat" bill that seeks to outlaw abortion after about six weeks. (metafilter.com)
  • It aims to ban abortion after a fetal heartbeat has been detected, which is considered a misnomer as a fetus doesn't possess a heart at six weeks' gestation. (texastribune.org)
  • They'll point to their very public rebuke of then-candidate Donald Trump , how they very thoroughly and methodically sat him down and chastised him when he suggested women should be jailed if they obtain an abortion if the procedure is ever made illegal. (damemagazine.com)
  • First, they argue that most abortions are actually done in the first trimester, which does not rebut the legality of the procedure in later months. (lifenews.com)
  • Guttmacher reports that "16% of all abortion providers perform the procedure at 24 weeks. (lifenews.com)
  • The provisions in question required all clinics providing abortions "in the state to meet the standards for 'ambulatory surgical centers,' including regulations concerning buildings, equipment and staffing," The New York Times explained, and required doctors who performed the procedure "to have admitting privileges at nearby hospital[s]. (mediamatters.org)
  • If your head is spinning trying to keep track of how all of this works, imagine being a patient trying to get a time-sensitive, urgent procedure like abortion. (minnpost.com)
  • That black women are far more likely than women of other races to get an abortion (accounting for roughly one-third of those undergoing the procedure according to one commonly cited study) is, to the black anti-abortion movement, proof that something is amiss. (vox.com)
  • Restrictive abortion laws require women to pay out of pocket for abortion care, travel long distances, take multiple days off work, make additional, medically unnecessary visits to an abortion provider and spend hundreds or thousands of dollars on travel- and procedure-related expenses. (nationalpartnership.org)
  • Telehealth abortion demand is soaring. (whqr.org)
  • It's one of a handful of U.S. telehealth abortion services that have sprung up in recent years. (whqr.org)
  • The services, with names like HeyJane and Abortion on Demand , have used pandemic-era changes to rules around telehealth and abortion medications to fulfill a growing demand for safe, at-home abortions. (whqr.org)
  • Telehealth abortion has rapidly transformed that. (whqr.org)
  • While our neighboring states revert to forcing back-alley abortions, Illinois will remain a safe haven for women," Pritzker said Monday at an event in Chicago announcing the investments. (nationalpartnership.org)
  • Even under these adverse circumstances, Dr. Tiller never wavered in his commitment to providing abortion services and other reproductive health care to women and their families, often in the most difficult and heart-breaking circumstances. (ourbodiesourselves.org)
  • The women in my father's practice for whom he did abortions educated me and taught me that abortion is about women's hopes, dreams, potential, the rest of their lives. (ourbodiesourselves.org)
  • Abortion is a matter of survival for women. (ourbodiesourselves.org)
  • Media coverage of Texas' anti-abortion laws often provides equal coverage to both sides of the debate, at the expense of fact-checking anti-abortion proponents who claim, against the advice of medical experts, that the legislation helps women, as Amanda Marcotte noted in a July 2 post for RH Reality Check. (mediamatters.org)
  • The Trump administration's proposal to strip federal funding from family planning programs that refer women to providers where they can get an abortion would disproportionately impact low-income Seattleites, local reproductive health care providers say. (kirklandreporter.com)
  • Along with disproportionately impacting low-income women in Seattle, the proposed rule would also affect residents in Eastern Washington where hospitals are often religiously affiliated, and medical professionals could turn away women seeking abortions. (kirklandreporter.com)
  • Women seeking abortions in Oklahoma, as in other states, need not provide a reason for terminating their pregnancies. (beaconbroadside.com)
  • The leading pro-life economist says this decline proves the laws are working to deter women from having abortions. (beaconbroadside.com)
  • After Utah enacted a seventy-two-hour waiting period, one of the longest in the country, Roberts surveyed five hundred women who sought abortions in Utah. (beaconbroadside.com)
  • The 72 hour waiting period and two-visit requirement did not prevent women from having abortions, but it did burden women with financial costs, logistical hassles, and extended periods of dwelling on decisions they had already made. (beaconbroadside.com)
  • The wait also led some women to worry that they would not be able to obtain abortion drugs, and pushed at least one beyond the clinic's gestational limits for abortion. (beaconbroadside.com)
  • Roberts found no evidence suggesting that the three-day waiting period led women to change their minds about abortion. (beaconbroadside.com)
  • Laws restricting abortion by banning insurance coverage or requiring waiting periods don't target any particular set of pregnant women. (beaconbroadside.com)
  • One area where I want to see President Obama have our collective backs is the issue of military women and abortion. (vivalafeminista.com)
  • Misoprostol reduces the rate of complications after surgical abortion when administered as a medical priming agent prior to vacuum aspiration, both in nulliparous and parous women. (fiapac.org)
  • That's how you're forced to live-sort of in a box," said Hill, speaking of herself as well as other abortion providers nationwide who continue to offer a full range of reproductive options to women despite harassment and terrorist acts. (feminist.org)
  • I saw women coming in hemorrhaging from illegal abortions. (feminist.org)
  • The measure, HB 481, is the most extreme abortion ban in the country-not just because it would impose severe limitations on women's reproductive rights, but also because it would subject women who get illegal abortions to life imprisonment and the death penalty. (metafilter.com)
  • HB 481 would also have consequences for women who get abortions from doctors or miscarry. (metafilter.com)
  • What does that have to do with scolding women about the proper use of their uterus and doing thought pieces on the justifications for killing abortion providers. (balloon-juice.com)
  • Known as the "heartbeat bill," Senate Bill 8 was heavily criticized because it limits abortion to two weeks after a missed menstrual cycle, a time when some women don't yet know they're pregnant. (texastribune.org)
  • Marc Hearron, senior counsel for the Center for Reproductive Rights and lead attorney on the suit, said this provision could produce "endless lawsuits," leave abortion clinics vulnerable to harassment and possible closure, intimidate pregnant women and leave them with fewer avenues of help. (texastribune.org)
  • At the same time, the Governor and state legislators have issued calls to make California a "sanctuary" destination for women seeking abortions from in and out of state. (sfarchdiocese.org)
  • [2] " At this pivotal moment, we, the Bishops of the Dioceses of California, commit to a vision for our state that honors women with life-affirming support and practical resources so that all families can thrive, and so that no woman feels trapped into the devastating decision to end a life by abortion. (sfarchdiocese.org)
  • Women who have had abortions walk with thousands of pro-life demonstrators as they participate in the annual March for Life on January 27, 2017. (vox.com)
  • Editor's note: We use the term "women" in this report, but recognize that barriers to abortion access affect people of many gender identities - transgender, nonbinary and cisgender alike. (nationalpartnership.org)
  • Prior to the pandemic, getting an abortion in the U.S. could be a difficult, complex and often expensive process for women and other pregnant people. (whqr.org)
  • It's not just fringe candidates and pundits advocating for killing women who have abortions. (damemagazine.com)
  • Women who want abortions are victims-of predatory doctors, coercive family and unsupportive society. (damemagazine.com)
  • a WHO curriculum on violence against women for health care providers, and RESPECT, an interagency framework for prevention of violence against women, which can be used to inform policy and financing decisions. (who.int)
  • Because of Roe and Doe , the U.S. is one of only four nations (along with North Korea, China and Canada) that allow abortion for any reason after viability. (lifenews.com)
  • The lawsuit, filed in state district court in Johnson County in the Kansas City area, argues that Kansas has created a "Biased Counseling Scheme" designed to discourage patients from getting abortions and to stigmatize patients who terminate their pregnancies. (cbs42.com)
  • Tiller, 67, is one of a handful of doctors in the country who terminate very late-term pregnancies and has virtually become public enemy No. 1 to those who oppose abortion. (ourbodiesourselves.org)
  • Based on estimated lifetime risk, each American woman is expected to have 3.2 pregnancies, of which 2 will be a live birth, 0.7 will be an induced abortion, and 0.5 will be a miscarriage. (medscape.com)
  • Providers in Kansas are inundated with a surge of patients traveling from out of state, from states as far as Texas and Mississippi, in search of desperately needed essential health care," said Alice Wang, an attorney for the Center for Reproductive Rights. (cbs42.com)
  • As reproductive rights are at risk nationwide, state legislators ensure all students attending SUNY or CUNY will have access to abortion services if needed. (younginvincibles.org)
  • We were looking at full-spectrum reproductive rights - innovative approaches of having information and services around birth and motherhood and abortion all in the same space. (vox.com)
  • As an organization advancing reproductive justice , we know abortion is a part of the whole fabric of someone's life. (minnpost.com)
  • So Gomperts launched a new nonprofit organization based in Austria - Aid Access - with the goal of providing affordable and accessible abortion services to people in the US. (vox.com)
  • Any organization whose operations touch family planning services in any way ( e.g. , providers, those that facilitate provider activities, investors, payors, employers that provide family planning benefits and health plan service providers) should immediately examine their precise services, geographic footprint, corporate structure and organizational priorities. (mwe.com)
  • The president of America's largest abortion provider is a celebrity in Hollywood's eyes, and she's using that status to praise young people - many of whom are missing today because of her organization. (newsbusters.org)
  • The same organization was also involved in the U.S. Supreme Court's Dobbs decision overturning the constitutional right to an abortion. (penncapital-star.com)
  • Abortion is an important part of health care, and limiting one aspect of that care restricts access to the best health care choice for the patient. (kirklandreporter.com)
  • We spend our days filling funding requests for abortion care, helping patients navigate the complicated web of insurance coverage, coordinating hotel stays and travel arrangements, and providing information on abortion laws. (minnpost.com)
  • Embracing the state motto - 'I lead' - Maine lawmakers led in a different direction, safeguarding and expanding access to abortion and gender-affirming care. (centralmaine.com)
  • Benefits under this program include coverage for transportation, lodging, and child care for abortion seekers that require additional support. (younginvincibles.org)
  • Expanding access to abortion care to SUNY and CUNY students. (younginvincibles.org)
  • These professional societies suggest that health care providers prepare girls and their families for the onset of menstruation and ensure that they understand the variation in menstrual patterns. (kenw.org)
  • Yet many American girls still do not learn the basic facts about their menstrual cycles at home or school or from health care providers. (kenw.org)
  • Current law forbids military hospitals from providing abortion care except in cases of rape, incest, or life endangerment- even if the woman pays with her own funds. (vivalafeminista.com)
  • She led off with an unlikely anecdote from Richards making pro-lifers out as hypocrites and the leader of America's largest abortion mill as an advocate for women's health care. (newsbusters.org)
  • A woman who seeks out an illegal abortion from a health care provider would be a party to murder, subject to life in prison. (metafilter.com)
  • Access to an abortion is a critical to reproductive health care," Venkat said in a statement. (penncapital-star.com)
  • A pro-choice champion, she said, "I believe we should be debating health care, not abortions. (constantcontact.com)
  • How many miles do you have to travel to get abortion care? (kcur.org)
  • Still, as these maps show, access to abortion care declined dramatically in the United States. (kcur.org)
  • Distance prevents a lot of people from reaching providers," says Myers, often times because they lack the money for travel, child care, and they can't afford to miss work and lose wages. (kcur.org)
  • That takes "time to arrange child care, time off work, gas money, finding a place to stay," says Dr. Jamie Phifer, founder and medical director of Abortion on Demand, a company that sends abortion medications through the mail. (whqr.org)
  • Health care providers can counsel parents and guardians of young children that most reactions reported after vaccination with Pfizer-BioNTech or Moderna vaccine were mild and transient and that serious adverse events are rare. (cdc.gov)
  • Health care providers diagnose Turner syndrome based on symptoms and a genetic blood test called a karyotype test . (medlineplus.gov)
  • How Do Health Care Providers Diagnose Turner Syndrome? (medlineplus.gov)
  • South Dakota already has stringent abortion laws. (whyy.org)
  • Some of the laws, such as a ban on sex-selective abortion, are plainly symbolic. (beaconbroadside.com)
  • At the national level, there's a bitter dispute about whether restrictive abortion laws lead to lower rates of abortion. (beaconbroadside.com)
  • The pro-choice economists respond that he's wrong, because abortion is declining throughout the country, including in states without pro-life laws. (beaconbroadside.com)
  • For our purposes, though, the question is not necessarily how often or how much the laws deter abortion. (beaconbroadside.com)
  • This strategy should take into account laws that have now taken effect that prohibit and criminalize abortion services. (mwe.com)
  • instead, the law allows any Texan to sue providers they think are not complying with state abortion laws, thus pushing enforcement to the civil court system. (texastribune.org)
  • Before the 19th century, most US states had no specific abortion laws. (medscape.com)
  • Current law bans servicewomen from using their own insurance to pay for abortion services if they become pregnant as the result of rape. (vivalafeminista.com)
  • The criteria for determining whether a woman is pregnant depend on the assurance that she has not ovulated within a certain amount of time after her last menses, spontaneous or induced abortion, or delivery. (cdc.gov)
  • In a span of about two weeks, Nora realized she was pregnant, decided to get an abortion, got a consult and the pills through Aid Access and completed the abortion. (whqr.org)
  • Meanwhile, nearly two dozen Ohio state representatives signed onto a bill that, if passed, could potentially put a pregnant person obtaining an abortion in jail for the rest of their life-or worse. (damemagazine.com)
  • D.C.: They have found information about providers by exploring medical agency and state department of health databases. (truthout.org)
  • The providers hope the state courts will invalidate the entire state law that spells out what they must tell patients - in writing - and when, with a single, specific style of type mandated for the forms. (cbs42.com)
  • He had faced 19 criminal charges for allegedly violating a state law requiring an "independent" second physician's concurring opinion before performing later term abortions. (ourbodiesourselves.org)
  • Two years ago, on May 29, we announced another lawsuit, called Doe v. Minnesota , against the state of Minnesota to demand that the state live up to its constitutional obligation to protect abortion access. (minnpost.com)
  • Imagine trying to figure all of this out while state and federal challenges to abortion access are announced nearly every week. (minnpost.com)
  • For example, one state law forbids the use of public funds or facilities for the provision of abortion services. (beaconbroadside.com)
  • The state has only three abortion providers, all in Madison or Milwaukee. (beaconbroadside.com)
  • In North Dakota, we [also] had to force materials on patients from the state intended to dissuade patients from having an abortion. (womenspress.com)
  • For those states that require state attorney general or other administrative action, abortion bans will likely be in place within the next two weeks. (mwe.com)
  • These state actions are only the first of many to be expected as some states seek strict abortion services regulations and others champion what they are doing to support abortion rights. (healthcaredive.com)
  • But how is this still considered fringe when state after state is now introducing, and in some cases even passing, "abortion is murder" bills in direct defiance of the U.S. Constitution? (damemagazine.com)
  • Oklahoma's 2014 attempt to define abortion as a felony and strip the medical license of any provider made it through both chambers of the State Legislature and was only stopped from becoming law by a veto from Republican Governor Mary Fallin. (damemagazine.com)
  • By John Lomperis In case you missed it, March 10 was National Abortion Provider Appreciation Day. (layman.org)
  • During the same time, some states have strengthened abortion rights and new clinics that offer abortions have opened - some of them strategically placed in cities that border states with abortion bans. (kcur.org)
  • In the past, patients usually had to go to freestanding clinics that offer abortion - and often had to drive quite far to get to one. (whqr.org)
  • Crime began to fall roughly eighteen years after abortion legalization. (repec.org)
  • In high abortion states, only arrests of those born after abortion legalization fall relative to low abortion states. (repec.org)
  • Even in ruby red states, there are legislators who are still fighting for abortion access, and they understand the ramifications of what happened in Dobbs and what could happen in this case. (penncapital-star.com)
  • You have to find time to schedule an extra, medically unnecessary appointment to hear a script that anti-abortion lawmakers force abortion providers to read to patients. (minnpost.com)
  • By Sunday, BHSH System said it would continue abortion services when medically necessary. (healthcaredive.com)
  • There was a special session happening in the North Dakota legislature, [and] we had heard legislators talking about copying Texas' six-week abortion ban (SB8). (womenspress.com)
  • While the pills were approved by the FDA in 2000, their use made up just under a quarter of all abortions by 2011, lagging behind procedural, or "surgical," abortions. (whqr.org)
  • You probably know, particularly the obstetricians and gynecologists who are here, that the FIGO Committee for the Ethical Aspects of Human Reproduction in Women's Health came out with ethical guidelines regarding induced abortion for non-medical reasons. (contemporaryobgyn.net)
  • That's because I was admitted under an alias," she recalled last year, shortly after her longtime friend Dr. George Tiller was murdered by an anti-abortion extremist. (feminist.org)
  • however, they should be aware of the limitations, including accuracy of the test relative to the time of last sexual intercourse, recent delivery, or spontaneous or induced abortion. (cdc.gov)
  • The district court granted summary judgment in favor of the Respondents and permanently enjoined enforcement of the law, reasoning that Mississippi's 15-week restriction on abortion violated Roe and Casey , which forbid states to ban abortion pre-viability. (mwe.com)
  • Protestors gather in front of the Governor's Mansion in Austin to protest against SB 8, an abortion restriction bill in the Senate, on May 19, 2021. (texastribune.org)
  • George Tiller, an abortion provider in Wichita, Kan., was shot and killed this morning at his church. (ourbodiesourselves.org)