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In June 2022, the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization, ending federal abortion rights and allowing individual states to regulate their own abortion laws. (wikipedia.org)
FILE - Boxes of the drug mifepristone sit on a shelf at the West Alabama Women's Center in Tuscaloosa, Ala., March 16, 2022. (apnews.com)
Donald Trump and Tudor Dixon Source: LifeSite News 'Trump told GOP gubernatorial candidate to soften her 'no exceptions' abortion platform in 2022' 'Pro-lifers point out that life begins at conception, that the deliberate killing of an unborn baby is never medically necessary, and that unborn babies are not at fault for the conditions of their conception. (christian-heritage-news.com)
LifeSite News Sept 6, 2023 https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/trump-told-gop-gubernatorial-candidate-to-soften-her-no-exceptions-abortion-platform-in-2022/ God says, 'Thou shalt not kill (murder). (christian-heritage-news.com)
Exploring the Decline in the Singleton Preterm Birth Rate in the United States, 2019-2020Data Brief No. 430 (January 21, 2022)Key Finding: The preterm birth rate for single deliveries declined slightly in 2020 after increasing by an average rate of 2% per year from 2014 through 2019. (cdc.gov)
26(6): 1-16, 2022. (bvsalud.org)

The clear purpose of this Title X rule change was to benefit abortion providers like Planned Parenthood,' said Cardinal Timothy M. Dolan of New York, who is chairman of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops' Committee on Pro-Life Activities. (catholiccourier.com)
Congress has done well to reverse this very bad public policy, and to restore the ability of states to stop one stream of our tax dollars going to Planned Parenthood and redirect it to community health centers that provide comprehensive primary and preventive health care,' he said in a March 31 statement. (catholiccourier.com)
Planned Parenthood also is the nation's largest abortion network - performing over a third of all abortions in the U.S. It receives more than half a billion dollars in federal funding each year. (catholiccourier.com)
43, National Right to Life wrote: 'Long-standing objections to the massive governmental funding of PPFA (Planned Parenthood Federation of America) have been reinforced by widely publicized undercover videos, which illuminate the callous brutality that occurs daily in these abortion mills. (catholiccourier.com)
A Planned Parenthood of Montana clinic in Helena is among those that recently changed its policies to restrict its distribution of abortion pills only to patients from states without abortion bans in effect. (wfsu.org)
Officials from Planned Parenthood of Montana, which operates the three clinics, said the intent is to ensure that they and their patients from states with trigger bans - laws to ban or restrict abortion that were designed to go into effect if Roe v. Wade was struck down - are protected from criminal charges and lawsuits. (wfsu.org)
Planned Parenthood of Montana decided June 30 not to provide abortion pills at their clinics in Billings, Great Falls and Helena to patients from states where trigger laws have gone into effect. (wfsu.org)
The president of Planned Parenthood of Montana, Martha Fuller, wrote in an internal memo that the risks of cross-state provision of services were unclear, citing concerns about the potential for civil and criminal action against those providing medicine that would end a pregnancy to people from states with bans in effect. (wfsu.org)
The three Planned Parenthood clinics in Montana will continue to provide abortion procedures to out-of-state residents. (wfsu.org)
Right now, we believe that that is the best way of ensuring that out-of-state patients are not afraid to access the essential follow-up care they may need because of the intimidation and fear-mongering of extreme anti-abortion politicians," said Laura Terrill, a spokesperson for Planned Parenthood of Montana. (wfsu.org)
Jones said the analysis focused on clinics, either Planned Parenthood facilities that did at least one abortion, or facilities that did 400 or more abortions, either surgically, medically induced, or both. (northwestern.edu)
While Planned Parenthood clinics are not the only abortion providers in the state, the state-wide locations closely match up with the counties that have the shortest median travel distances. (northwestern.edu)
Planned Parenthood has 16 clinic locations across Illinois, nine of which are located in Chicago. (northwestern.edu)
That law was ratified in the southern state in 2018, but it was blocked by lower courts because it directly conflicts with the Supreme Court's decisions in 1973's Roe v. Wade and 1992's Planned Parenthood v. Casey, which reaffirmed the landmark abortion decision. (koaa.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)
Only Women's Health Care Services of Wichita, operated by well-known abortionist George Tiller, and a Planned Parenthood clinic in Overland Park refused to comply with the request for medical data. (christianitytoday.com)
Louisiana's health department refused to allow Planned Parenthood to perform abortions at its new clinic in New Orleans because it didn't demonstrate the need for another abortion facility in Louisiana. (lifesitenews.com)
Louisiana's health department is refusing to let Planned Parenthood perform abortion services at its new clinic under construction in New Orleans, the latest flashpoint in a long-running dispute over abortion access in the state. (lifesitenews.com)
The organization received a rejection letter last week from the Department of Health and Hospitals, which said Planned Parenthood didn't demonstrate the need for another abortion facility in Louisiana. (lifesitenews.com)
Looks like Planned Parenthood was looking forward to doubling its business by offering abortions, particularly since it is conveniently located between Mississippi , which only has one abortion clinic, and southeast Texas , which has none. (lifesitenews.com)
Officials with Trust Women and Planned Parenthood Great Plains, which both operate abortion clinics in Oklahoma City, said some women from Oklahoma are being forced to seek abortion services in other states because of two-week wait times for services in Oklahoma. (nbcdfw.com)
Emily Wales, interim president and CEO of Planned Parenthood Great Plains Votes, said Planned Parenthood went from seeing about 50 patients from Texas at their clinics in Arkansas, Kansas, Missouri, and Oklahoma in the fall of 2020 to more than 1,000 last year. (nbcdfw.com)
Among them are clinics tied to Planned Parenthood, which announced in August it would forgo federal funding rather than abide by the rule. (thechristian.ng)
Anti-abortion-rights activists pray outside a Planned Parenthood clinic that offers abortions in 2016 in Austin. (wkar.org)
Planned Parenthood clinics in Colorado, New Mexico and Nevada are reporting an influx of patients from Texas, after an order from Texas Gov. Greg Abbott suspending most abortions in that state during the coronavirus pandemic. (wkar.org)
New data provided to NPR by Planned Parenthood show a more than sevenfold increase in patients traveling from Texas to clinics across the Southwest for abortions since the order took effect in late March . (wkar.org)
It clearly shows that when individuals aren't able to access abortion care in their own state, they will travel - or at least the patients who have the means to travel will travel," said Dr. Kristina Tocce, medical director at Planned Parenthood of the Rocky Mountains, in an interview with NPR. (wkar.org)
According to Planned Parenthood, clinics in Colorado, New Mexico and Nevada saw 129 patients from Texas between March 23 and April 14, compared with 16 Texas patients during the entire month of February, a 706% increase. (wkar.org)
During the same period in 2019, a Planned Parenthood official said those clinics saw 14 patients from Texas. (wkar.org)

The lawsuit, filed May 26 and amended Wednesday, is one of several challenges to buffer zones at clinics across the nation at a time when access to abortion has been eroded in many states. (tampabay.com)
Today, the Supreme Court considers the future of access to abortion in this country. (kdlg.org)
They and their patients require clarity around their continued provision of mifepristone," states the lawsuit, which was filed on behalf of the clinics by the Center for Reproductive Rights, a New York-based legal and advocacy group that works to ensure access to abortion. (apnews.com)
On March 2, the Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in Whole Woman's Health v. Hellerstedt , a case that will determine the constitutionality of a Texas anti-choice law (HB 2) that severely limits women's access to abortion and medical care and disproportionately harms Latinas. (mediamatters.org)
Residents in Illinois have more access to abortion than in other states in the Midwest region, both in distance to clinics and when factoring in state laws, the institute found. (northwestern.edu)
Since last year, when Republicans took control of the Kentucky House for the first time since 1921, the state's legislature has passed several measures to restrict access to abortion, including banning all abortions after the 20th week of pregnancy. (medscape.com)

Before the Supreme Court 1973 decisions in Roe v. Wade and Doe v. Bolton, anti-abortion views predominated and found expression in state laws which prohibited or restricted abortions in a variety of ways. (wikipedia.org)
If the Supreme Court upholds the state's abortion law in its entirety, that number could fall to less than 10 - all in major metropolitan areas," the Tribune reported . (keranews.org)
The Supreme Court is currently reviewing a Texas law that requires "doctors performing abortions to have admitting privileges at hospitals within 30 miles of an abortion clinic. (keranews.org)
In the Supreme Court case, three CPCs are challenging California's Reproductive FACT Act , which requires licensed medical clinics to notify pregnant patients that they can receive information about state-funded prenatal care, family planning and abortion services by calling the county health department. (truthout.org)
At least, that is the position that the Supreme Court has taken with respect to so-called "informed consent" statutes that seek to discourage abortion. (truthout.org)
The four states bordering Montana have "trigger laws" in effect or pending now that the U.S. Supreme Court has ended federal protections for abortion, making conservative Big Sky Country an unlikely haven for women seeking to end their pregnancies. (wfsu.org)
People are acting under conditions of extraordinary chaos and fear that has been instilled by where the Supreme Court has left us and by threats by anti-abortion politicians in some states," Sandman said. (wfsu.org)
Government attorneys have asked the Ohio Supreme Court to uphold the state Health Department's order to shut down Toledo's last abortion clinic. (breakinglegalnews.com)
Supreme Court Will Hear Challenge To Texas Abortion Restriction Law On March 2, 2016. (mediamatters.org)
In an amicus brief to the Supreme Court, the National Latina Institute for Reproductive Health (NLIRH) argued that the additional barriers to abortion access created by HB 2 would function as "a complete ban on abortion" for many Texas women. (mediamatters.org)
The definition in HB1439 was different from that used in Rapert's "trigger bill," Senate Bill 149, which would ban abortions in Arkansas if the U.S. Supreme Court reverses its Roe v. Wade precedent or if the U.S. Constitution is ever amended to allow states to prohibit the procedure. (arkansasonline.com)
WASHINGTON, D.C. - With abortion rights are on the line, the U.S. Supreme Court began hearing oral arguments about whether Roe v. Wade should be overturned Wednesday. (koaa.com)
The Supreme Court has heard cases that threatened Roe v. Wade before, but with a 6-3 conservative majority, the decision in this case could sway in favor of those who want abortion rights abolished or reduced. (koaa.com)
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)
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)
More broadly, the ban has alarmed reproductive rights advocates, who argue that the Mississippi legislation is part of a new wave of laws intended to challenge core tenets of the Supreme Court's 1973 decision in Roe v. Wade, and give the Supreme Court, with input from anti-abortion justices appointed by President Donald Trump, a chance to overturn the decision. (vox.com)
He noted that the brief that Women's Health Care Services filed on March 16 with the state Supreme Court "underscores our client's unyielding commitment to ensuring that patients need never fear public exposure of the confidential information they share with their doctor. (christianitytoday.com)
Tony Lauinger, chairman of Oklahomans for Life and a longtime anti-abortion activist in Oklahoma, said that while he's "greatly concerned" at the increase in the number of abortions being performed in Oklahoma, he's also optimistic that the U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to hear a legal challenge that could lead to the historic Roe v. Wade decision legalizing abortion to be overturned or limited. (nbcdfw.com)
The Supreme Court may have struck down abortion regulations that would have shut down all but five clinics providing termination of pregnancy services in Texas, but there's always going to be new abortion regulations in Texas. (gawker.com)
The Supreme Court on Monday overturned an odious Texas law that made it close to impossible for women to obtain abortions within the state, deeming the law's "substantial burdens" unconstitutional in a 5-3 majority opinion authored by Justice Stephen Breyer. (gawker.com)
Abortion opponents including Ohio Right to Life President Mike Gonidakis speak to reporters after the Ohio Supreme Court hears arguments on the closing of the Toledo abortion clinic in September. (statenews.org)
Ohio has half the number of abortion clinics it had in 2010 when Republicans won the governor's office and majorities in the Statehouse and the Supreme Court. (statenews.org)
In September, the Ohio Supreme Court heard arguments on a case that could determine whether the only abortion clinic in Toledo is forced to shut down. (statenews.org)
Despite Roe v. Wade , the 1973 Supreme Court decision which legalized abortion on a federal level, 87 percent of U.S. counties lack an abortion provider and services are unaffordable to many women, meaning that women often travel across state lines and make difficult financial sacrifices to afford the procedure. (socialistworker.org)
The U.S. Supreme Court recognized the constitutional right to abortion in the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision and has reaffirmed that right in subsequent decisions. (guttmacher.org)
Deaths and before the U.S. Supreme Court thus contributing complications from unsafe abortion are to the Court's decision to overthrow state laws commonplace in many countries. (bvsalud.org)
Child Health between 1946 and 2005 and concluded the US Supreme Court decisions, Roe v Wade and that "the investigations of abortion-related health in 1973, abortion became legal throughout the US problems might have had the best-documented and well accepted in areas which had achieved the impact on public policy and public health1. (bvsalud.org)

One of four remaining clinics that provide abortions in Kansas has closed amid a hostile political climate and financial challenges. (jillstanek.com)
The law, House Bill 1390, puts new restrictions on doctors who provide abortions and the facilities in which abortions are performed. (feminist.org)
And the facility doesn't provide abortions after 16 weeks, The Associated Press reports. (koaa.com)
Earlier this year, when the new budget was signed, it included a provision that gave money to women's health clinics that didn't provide abortions. (statenews.org)
Because of that, they are being denied their license to provide abortions to the women in Northwest Ohio," Branch said. (statenews.org)

In Harris v. McRae, anti-abortion advocates won a 1980 challenge to the Hyde Amendment. (wikipedia.org)
Advocates expect medication abortions to become a target of new state laws. (wfsu.org)
Abortion-rights advocates and their opponents continue jostling for a legal foothold on the issue across the country. (apnews.com)
The problem of unborn babies surviving abortions only to die alone on a cold, steel table, in a biohazard bag, or under other unthinkable circumstances is real and not the "hypothetical" problem that abortion advocates callously claim. (aul.org)
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)
Reproductive justice advocates say the measure will harm black women in the state. (vox.com)
On Monday, the state went further by passing a 15-week abortion ban , a measure that reproductive rights advocates say will primarily affect black women in the state. (vox.com)
Roberts and other advocates say the earlier cutoff will increase the financial burdens of abortion access, making it that much harder for low-income women - many of whom are women of color lacking comprehensive health insurance - to access the procedure. (vox.com)
For reproductive rights advocates, the new ban deals a double blow to black women, who already suffer from lack of access to health facilities in one of the poorest states in the nation. (vox.com)
Michelle Erneberg, the executive director of Lift Louisiana, a group that advocates for abortion access, called SB 8 "an incredibly cynical law. (houstonpublicmedia.org)
Tong, Wales, and other abortion-rights advocates say they're particularly concerned the Oklahoma Legislature intends to follow Texas' lead and pass a similar bill or even more onerous restrictions that could bring an end to abortion services in Oklahoma altogether. (nbcdfw.com)

The anti-abortion movement became politically active and dedicated to the reversal of the Roe v. Wade decision, which struck down most state laws restricting abortion in the first trimester of pregnancy. (wikipedia.org)
Supporters of abortion rights believe that pro-life legislators in Virginia and elsewhere around the country are using retroactive regulations to get around constitutional guarantees to abortion on demand during the first trimester of pregnancy. (reason.com)
Most likely New Mexico, one of seven states that permits the operation at any stage of pregnancy, The Associated Press reported . (keranews.org)
Since the 1970s , CPCs, sometimes called "limited service pregnancy centers," have been posing as walk-in medical clinics for family planning and pregnancy-related care. (truthout.org)
They provide information about contraception and abortion that is false or at the very least, misleading - all for the purpose of delaying a pregnant person's decision-making process until it is too late to terminate the pregnancy. (truthout.org)
An abortion procedure also known as "surgical abortion" or "in-clinic abortion" is a simple, safe procedure that involves a pelvic exam, dilation of the cervix, and removal of the pregnancy tissue through vacuum aspiration and additional instruments. (wholewomanshealth.com)
After 16 weeks of pregnancy, cervical dilation may need to be completed over the course of 1-2 days prior to the removal of the pregnancy. (wholewomanshealth.com)
Over 16 weeks of pregnancy, cervical dilation can take multiple days. (wholewomanshealth.com)
Aspiration abortion works by using suction to take a pregnancy out of your uterus. (wholewomanshealth.com)
Depending on how far you are into your pregnancy, there are a couple of methods used for in-clinic abortion procedures. (wholewomanshealth.com)
In some clinics, you can get an abortion procedure as soon as you have a positive pregnancy test. (wholewomanshealth.com)
It may be harder to find a health care provider able to do an abortion after the 12th week of pregnancy, so it's best to try to have your abortion as soon as possible. (wholewomanshealth.com)
But the policy change is yet another complication for women in neighboring states such as South Dakota who want to end a pregnancy and face a rapidly narrowing field of options. (wfsu.org)
At approximately 1:30 PM that day, unlicensed workers administered Cytotec, a drug meant to treat ulcers that can also cause uterine contractions, and RU-486, an abortion-inducing drug not approved for use after the seventh week of pregnancy. (aul.org)
A bill that would ban abortions 18 weeks into a woman's pregnancy -- with an exception for medical emergencies or pregnancies resulting from rape or incest -- passed in the Arkansas Senate on Monday. (arkansasonline.com)
A "medical emergency" in both bills are basically the same except HB1439 adds the allowance of an abortion when continuation of the pregnancy would result in the "irreversible impairment of a major bodily function. (arkansasonline.com)
I think it's vital not only for the sake of unborn children, but also for the health of women because later in the pregnancy the woman gets an abortion, the more likely there are to be health risks. (arkansasonline.com)
That said, they could still get an abortion for the first four-and-a-half months of pregnancy. (arkansasonline.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)
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)
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)
The Mississippi law, also known as the Gestational Age Act , bans almost all abortions after 15 weeks of pregnancy, making it the most restrictive ban in the country. (vox.com)
Kansas Attorney General Phill Kline said he is looking for evidence of child rape and abortions occurring after the 22nd week of pregnancy. (christianitytoday.com)
In Kansas, sexual intercourse with someone younger than 15 is considered rape, while abortions performed after 22 weeks are legal only if the unborn child is not viable or if the pregnancy presents a significant health risk to the mother. (christianitytoday.com)
SB 8 bans abortions after about six weeks of pregnancy, when many people don't know they're pregnant and with no exceptions for rape or incest survivors. (houstonpublicmedia.org)
Statistics released last week by the Texas Health and Human Services Commission show abortions in Texas fell by 60% in the first month after the new law took effect that bans the procedure once cardiac activity is detected, usually around six weeks of pregnancy, without exceptions in cases of rape or incest. (nbcdfw.com)
Depending on whom you talk to, this is either a gross intimidation tactic by the state or a necessary practice to verify that clinics are complying with a previously enacted state law that bans abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy. (gawker.com)
Anti-abortion legislation in recent years has targeted both women seeking abortions--enforcing medically unnecessary waiting periods and ultrasounds, and even mandating visits to anti-abortion crisis pregnancy centers--as well as targeting abortion providers themselves. (socialistworker.org)
Some new bills at the Statehouse would make abortion illegal at earlier stages of pregnancy than existing law, which bans abortion after around 24 weeks. (wcbe.org)
A hysterotomy is] much more dangerous, much more risky - the woman may never have another pregnancy now because you're trying to avoid being accused of having conducted an abortion. (kenw.org)
The American Civil Liberties Union, on behalf the state's lone abortion provider, filed the lawsuit in U.S. District Court in Louisville seeking to stop enforcement of House Bill 454, which bans a common abortion procedure from the 11th week of pregnancy onward. (medscape.com)
Mississippi's governor last month signed into law the most restrictive abortion measure in the United States, banning all abortions after the 15th week of pregnancy. (medscape.com)
Pregnancy should be confirmed before abortion is induced. (msdmanuals.com)
Yellow fever vaccination during pregnancy and spontaneous abortion: a case-control study. (medscape.com)

In 2020, medication abortions made up more than half of abortions in the U.S. for the first time, according to the Guttmacher Institute , a research organization that supports abortion rights. (wfsu.org)
Arkansas is one of 19 states that has successfully enacted bans on abortion past 20 weeks, according to the Guttmacher Institute, a Washington, D.C.-based research group that supports abortion rights. (arkansasonline.com)
Ohio Democratic congressman Tim Ryan has switched his position and now supports abortion rights. (wcbe.org)
While dilation and evacuation is used in most second-trimester abortions, nearly 90 percent of all abortions are performed in the first trimester, according to the Guttmacher Institute, a research group that supports abortion rights. (medscape.com)

A Mississippi law that bans abortions after 15 weeks directly contravenes Roe. (kdlg.org)
In 1992, the high court said the point of viability is between about 23 to 24 weeks, but the Mississippi law bans abortions after 15 weeks. (koaa.com)

WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump signed a bill into law April 13 that allows states to redirect Title X family planning funding away from clinics that perform abortions and to community clinics that provide comprehensive health care for women and children. (catholicregister.org)
That clinic, the Jackson's Women's Health Organization, does not perform abortions after 16 weeks. (vox.com)
The regulations require any outpatient abortion facility to demonstrate its services are needed to preserve access before it can apply for a license to perform abortions in the state. (lifesitenews.com)
Nearly 900 clinics that either perform abortions or promote them have lost federal funding under a new Trump administration rule that prevents family planning clinics receiving taxpayer money from promoting or referring for abortion, according to a new report. (thechristian.ng)

However, residents of counties in southern Illinois are farther away from abortion clinics, which can increase the financial burden placed on women seeking abortions. (northwestern.edu)
The battle over abortion rights continues in North Carolina, where state law now requires doctors to send the ultrasounds of women seeking abortions to state officials. (gawker.com)

Abortion providers in three states filed a lawsuit Monday, May 8, 2023, aimed at preserving access to the abortion pill mifepristone, even as the drug is threatened by a separate Texas lawsuit winding its way through U.S. court system. (apnews.com)
Posted at American ProLifer: Published September 18, 2023 Asked whether he would support a 15 week abortion ban, Trump refused to answer. (christian-heritage-news.com)

Following Texas' 2013 restrictions on abortion, collectively known as House Bill 2 , the number of in-state clinics offering the procedure has dwindled from 40 to 19, according to The Texas Tribune. (keranews.org)
Abortion is a completely unique surgical procedure, profoundly different in many ways from ethical surgery, as shown in Figure 61-1. (ewtn.com)
Dilation and Evacuation (D&E) is kind of in-clinic abortion procedure. (wholewomanshealth.com)
This procedure is typically used if it has been 16 weeks or longer since your last period. (wholewomanshealth.com)
Needing to get a repeat procedure because the abortion didn't work is really rare. (wholewomanshealth.com)
Some people choose in-clinic abortion because they want to have their procedure done at a health center. (wholewomanshealth.com)
Once you're in the procedure room, there will be a staff member there to assist the provider and support you during the abortion. (wholewomanshealth.com)
That was a state that we were hoping was going to be available," said Kim Floren, director of the Justice Through Empowerment Network , a South Dakota abortion fund which provides financial aid to people who need the procedure. (wfsu.org)
She also testified that Gosnell used scissors to "snip" the neck of newborns who were moving after the abortion procedure. (aul.org)
For example, the nearest clinic might be in Missouri or Indiana, but both states have mandatory delays between state-mandated counseling and the actual procedure. (northwestern.edu)
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)
That novel enforcement mechanism strips away the usual procedure for reviewing other anti-abortion laws in federal court, where the state is typically the defendant in the case. (houstonpublicmedia.org)
Tong said the clinic has added an additional physician and the clinic is open more days per week but it still has longer wait times, which leads to longer pregnancies, more complications, and an increased likelihood that a woman will have to receive a surgical procedure instead of a medication-induced abortion. (nbcdfw.com)
In June, protestors dressed in costumes from the dystopian TV series "The Handmaid's Tale" sit in a committee hearing to oppose a bill banning a common procedure used in second-trimester abortions. (statenews.org)
Take, for example, one that passed the Senate that bans a common procedure used in second trimester abortions . (statenews.org)
A patient must receive state-directed counseling that includes information designed to discourage the patient from having an abortion, and then wait 72 hours before the procedure is provided. (guttmacher.org)
Tocce said she recently saw a patient who traveled 16 hours for a procedure. (wkar.org)
Republican state officials and organizations opposed to abortion rights have argued that the procedure should be treated as nonessential during the pandemic, in order to preserve medical supplies for coronavirus patients, and to reduce the risk of exposure at clinics. (wkar.org)
Abortion-rights groups have challenged bans in several states and have succeeded in scaling them back or blocking them, but some patients seeking the procedure have been turned away . (wkar.org)
The procedure accounts for 16 percent of all abortions performed in Kentucky. (medscape.com)
After Kentucky's General Assembly passed the bill late last month, state Representative Addia Wuchner, its main sponsor, said she was not seeking to prevent a woman's access to an abortion, but to restrict a "brutal and cruel" procedure. (medscape.com)
Completion of an induced abortion can be confirmed by directly observing removal of uterine contents or via ultrasonography used during the procedure. (msdmanuals.com)

This law's definition of "nonviable" was later refined]: As of 2019, the state prohibited abortions after the fetus was viable, generally some point between week 24 and 28. (ontheissues.org)
In 2019, 92.7% of abortions were performed 13 weeks or earlier in gestation, about 6.2% were performed at 14 to 20 weeks of gestation, and less than 1% were done at more than 21 weeks, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). (koaa.com)
Between January 1, 2011 and July 1, 2019, states enacted 483 new abortion restrictions, and these account for nearly 40% of all abortion restrictions enacted by states in the decades since Roe v. Wade . (guttmacher.org)
1 . Jones RK, Witwer E and Jerman J, Abortion Incidence and Service Availability in the United States, 2017 , New York: Guttmacher Institute, 2019. (guttmacher.org)
2 . Fuentes L and Jerman J, Distance traveled to obtain clinical abortion care in the United States and reasons for clinic choice, Journal of Women's Health , 2019, https://doi.org/10.1089/jwh.2018.7496 . (guttmacher.org)
Questions for Dzifa Adjaye-Gbewonyo, Health Statistician and Lead Author of "Dental Care Utilization Among Children Aged 1-17 Years: United States, 2019 and 2020. (cdc.gov)

Editor's note: There are eight abortion clinics in operation in Ohio as of the end of 2017. (statenews.org)
In 2017, 862,320 abortions were provided in clinical settings in the United States. (guttmacher.org)
Approximately 862,320 abortions occurred in the United States in 2017. (guttmacher.org)
In 2017, 29,500 abortions were provided in North Carolina, though not all abortions that occurred in North Carolina were provided to state residents: Some patients may have traveled from other states, and some North Carolina residents may have traveled to another state for an abortion. (guttmacher.org)
There was a a 3% decline in the abortion rate in North Carolina between 2014 and 2017, from 15.1 to 14.6 abortions per 1,000 women of reproductive age. (guttmacher.org)
In 2017, there were 1,587 facilities providing abortion in the United States, representing a 5% decrease from the 1,671 facilities in 2014. (guttmacher.org)
Sixteen percent of facilities in 2017 were abortion clinics (i.e., clinics where more than half of all patient visits were for abortion), 35% were nonspecialized clinics, 33% were hospitals and 16% were private physicians' offices. (guttmacher.org)
There were 26 facilities providing abortion in North Carolina in 2017, and 14 of those were clinics. (guttmacher.org)
In 2017, 89% of U.S. counties had no clinics providing abortions. (guttmacher.org)
In 2017, some 91% of North Carolina counties had no clinics that provided abortions, and 53% of North Carolina women lived in those counties. (guttmacher.org)
The ACLU in 2017 sued to keep the EMW Women's Surgical Center in Louisville open, and a federal judge struck down a law passed in January 2017 that required women to undergo an ultrasound exam before receiving an abortion. (medscape.com)

Women in southern Illinois are disadvantaged when seeking an abortion, according to data on distances to abortion clinics from the Guttmacher Institute , a reproductive health research and policy group, published in early October. (northwestern.edu)
While many of these southern counties are rural, around 65,000 women of reproductive age would need to travel between 90 and 179 miles to an abortion clinic, the Guttmacher Institute found. (northwestern.edu)
Every three years, the Guttmacher Institute surveys all known abortion providers in the United States, including hospitals, physician's offices and clinics, said Rachel Jones, principal research scientist at the institute. (northwestern.edu)
Poor and low-income women and those who live in rural areas are often hit hardest by state restrictions that exacerbate long-standing inequalities in abortion access," said Megan Donovan, Guttmacher Institute policy expert, in an October news release . (northwestern.edu)
The Guttmacher Institute estimates that 26 states are "certain or likely" to ban abortion if the high court overturns or diminishes Roe v. Wade. (koaa.com)
A study published for the Guttmacher Institute in Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health noted that financial issues and concerns about life interference were the reasons cited by most who got an abortion. (lifenews.com)

We are committed to voter rights, worker rights, public education, women's rights (meaning abortion rights in particular), and health care. (progressive.org)

The movement has campaigned to reverse Roe v. Wade and to promote legislative changes or constitutional amendments, such as the Human Life Amendment, that prohibit or at least broadly restrict abortion. (wikipedia.org)
Two states, Mississippi and North Carolina, restrict abortion after 18 weeks post fertilization and similar legislation around the nation is being debated. (arkansasonline.com)
If the justices uphold the Mississippi law, it would be much easier for states to ban or more seriously restrict abortion rights. (koaa.com)

Sixty percent of all abortions were provided at abortion clinics, 35% at nonspecialized clinics, 3% at hospitals and 1% at physicians' offices. (guttmacher.org)

Minneapolis passed an ordinance in January that "prohibits the obstruction of entrances and driveways to abortion clinics" and was sued by an anti-abortion group in April, The Associated Press reported. (tampabay.com)
Prohibits the State from denying or interfering with a female's right to choose or obtain an abortion of a nonviable fetus or an abortion necessary to protect the female's life or health. (ontheissues.org)
It's pretty simple in that we already have existing law that prohibits abortion at 20 weeks. (arkansasonline.com)
Federal law prohibits taxpayers funding of most abortions. (thechristian.ng)
Referrals for abortion aren't permitted "because the statute written by Congress prohibits funding programs where abortion is a method of family planning," HHS previously said. (thechristian.ng)
The state prohibits abortions performed for the purpose of sex selection. (guttmacher.org)

The first major U.S. organization in the modern anti-abortion movement, the National Right to Life Committee, was formed out of the United States Catholic Conference in 1967. (wikipedia.org)
The law would have effectively shut down the Jackson Women's Health Organization, which is Mississippi's last remaining abortion clinic. (takimag.com)
In particular, the organization explained that due to the "significant geographic, transportation, infrastructure, and cost challenges" Latinas already face when seeking medical care, clinic closures caused by HB 2 would create "severe burdens in accessing reproductive healthcare. (mediamatters.org)
Only about 100 patients get abortions after 15 weeks at Mississippi's lone abortion clinic, the Jackson Women's Health Organization. (koaa.com)
The new abortion ban was set to take effect immediately, but after the Jackson Women's Health Organization and the Center for Reproductive Rights filed a lawsuit on March 19, it has been temporarily blocked . (vox.com)
Power to Decide, a pro-choice organization that works to prevent unplanned pregnancies, says in a new report that 876 clinics across the country have lost funding. (thechristian.ng)
Organization (WHO) estimates about 22 million investigative and more in-depth studies and unsafe abortions are performed worldwide each changes in abortion laws and practices have led to year and about 47,000 women die from unsafe evidence that a woman obtaining an abortion early abortion and 99% of these deaths occur in less in gestation in the United States has a mortality developed regions of the world. (bvsalud.org)
Next, a Organization (WHO) defines sexual educational classes concerning SRH pilot test was done with 15 men and health as "a state of physical, mental issues were recruited between Janu- 15 women attending an educational and social well-being in relation to ary and March 2010. (who.int)

Four anti-abortion U.S. Presidents - Ronald Reagan, George H. W. Bush, George W. Bush, and Donald Trump - have been elected. (wikipedia.org)
The high court was transformed by former President Donald Trump who pledged to appoint justices who oppose abortion rights. (koaa.com)
What Trump said is literally true: Late-term abortions are legally available . (lifenews.com)
Third, they complain that Trump did not properly describe a partial-birth abortion, which again ignores the legality of late-term abortion, however it is accomplished. (lifenews.com)
Criminal inquiries trump issues of privacy, state says. (christianitytoday.com)
This election cycle, Donald Trump is a conservative, which means he's against abortion. (gawker.com)
Notoriously hypocritical anti-abortion Congressman Scott DesJarlais, Republican from Tennessee (which is a Super Tuesday state), has endorsed Donald Trump, the Guardian reports . (gawker.com)
On abortion, Ms. Welker took a decidedly pro-abortion position, presenting only the abortion lobby's talking points and falsely "fact-checking" Trump by stating that Democrats do not support abortion until birth, which of course, they do. (christian-heritage-news.com)

The term pro-life was adopted instead of anti-abortion to highlight their proponents' belief that abortion is the taking of a human life, rather than an issue concerning the restriction of women's reproductive rights, as the pro-choice movement would say. (wikipedia.org)
In July 2011, a jury of six found abortionist James Scott Pendergraft IV liable for injuries sustained by an infant during a 2001 failed abortion at the Orlando Women's Center. (aul.org)
Testimony in the case revealed that, on November 15, 2001, C.H. entered the Orlando Women's Center for a late-term abortion. (aul.org)
A majority of abortions happen early in women's pregnancies. (koaa.com)
And black women's struggles with reproductive health care are not limited to abortion. (vox.com)
It's not an outside chance that two old white men will ensure women's right to abortion access is invalidated. (gawker.com)

New estimates and trends regarding unsafe abortion mortality. (msdmanuals.com)

How two lawmakers involved in introducing new abortion-related restrictions across the state began asking DHHS about Femcare's inspection history, and those of clinics in Charlotte, Durham, Fayetteville, Wilmington and Winston-Salem, before the law was passed. (carolinapublicpress.org)
But Montana's potential to become an abortion refuge has been diminished - not by the lawmakers and governor whose attempts to restrict abortions have been stymied by the state constitution's right to privacy, but by the operators of at least three of the state's five clinics, which are preemptively limiting who can receive abortion pills. (wfsu.org)
In yet another shortsighted attempt to ban abortion in Mississippi, Governor Bryant and lawmakers are putting their ideology above the health and safety of Mississippi women. (feminist.org)
The group said it included abortion providers in Virginia, Montana and Kansas in the lawsuit because those states are not parties to either the Texas or Washington cases, but they have many lawmakers who are hostile to abortion access and "are caught in the middle of this maelstrom. (apnews.com)
The case involves one of several restrictions Ohio lawmakers have placed on abortion clinics in recent years. (breakinglegalnews.com)
Oklahoma lawmakers have introduced more than a dozen bills this year to further restrict or prohibit abortions in Oklahoma, including measures that make it a felony crime to perform or receive an abortion. (nbcdfw.com)
It's up to lawmakers now to allow abortions in cases of rape and incest, but the government has already said it will appeal the ruling. (gawker.com)
But lawmakers also mandated no public hospital can enter into such an agreement with a clinic that provides abortions. (statenews.org)

Roe v. Wade was considered a major setback by anti-abortion campaigners. (wikipedia.org)
According to the Los Angeles Times , the Supreme Court's decision in Whole Woman's Health v. Hellerst e dt could impact the "larger question about the nature of abortion rights set out in the Roe vs. Wade decision. (mediamatters.org)
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)
The Texas law, called SB 8 , is the most extreme abortion ban to take effect in the U.S. since the passage of Roe v. Wade nearly 50 years ago, and it has sparked speculation that other states dominated by anti-abortion politicians, including Louisiana, might try to pass a similar law. (houstonpublicmedia.org)
Mississippi may soon become the first state in the U.S. post- Roe v. Wade to have no abortion clinics at all. (socialistworker.org)
Since Roe v. Wade was overturned, 13 states have banned abortion except in the case of a medical emergency or serious health risk for the pregnant patient. (kenw.org)

Mississippi's governor, Phil Bryant, signed an anti-abortion law on Monday that could effectively shut down the state's only abortion clinic. (feminist.org)

Peter Brownlie, president and chief executive of the Overland Park clinic which performs abortions, said Kline's investigation, which has gained national attention, was producing fear and outrage among women. (christianitytoday.com)
With so much demand, people are being scheduled for appointments three weeks out, and some are being referred to clinics in other states because they're too far along to be treated at Hope, which performs abortions up to 16-and-a-half weeks gestation. (houstonpublicmedia.org)

It's the same here [when doing a late-term abortion]. (ewtn.com)
Last week, Ashley Baldwin, who began working at Gosnell's "House of Horrors" abortion clinic when she was 15 years old, testified to "seeing at least five aborted babies moving, breathing, and, in one case, 'screeching' after late-term (abortion) procedures" at Gosnell's clinic. (aul.org)

Some anti-abortion activists allow for some permissible abortions, including therapeutic abortions, in exceptional circumstances such as incest, rape, severe fetal defects, or when the woman's health is at risk. (wikipedia.org)
Most Whole Woman's Health clinics can put an IUD in your uterus soon after your abortion. (wholewomanshealth.com)
Called the "highest-stakes abortion case in a generation," Whole Woman's Health v. Hellerst e dt involves a Texas law that places requirements on abortion providers that have been deemed "medically unnecessary" by both the American Medical Association and the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists. (mediamatters.org)
HB1439 would bar doctors from performing an abortion more than 18 weeks after the first day of the woman's last period, or 16 weeks post-fertilization. (arkansasonline.com)
Those cases established that the constitution protects a woman's choice to have an abortion and states can only ban abortions after the point of viability, which is when a fetus can survive outside the womb. (koaa.com)

Mississippi had already adopted a ban on abortions after 20 weeks, a measure that, along with several other restrictions, played a role in whittling abortion access in the state down to a single clinic. (vox.com)

Other documents in the newly released records note that the state's abortion clinics are fully inspected, on average, every three to five years. (carolinapublicpress.org)

Abortion clinics throughout the state have said compliance costs will force many of them to close and two out of 20 abortion clinics have already shut down, citing financial burdens related to the new regs. (reason.com)
The last abortion clinic in Toledo could be shut down by the state soon. (wcbe.org)
Kentucky politicians have already shut down all but one abortion clinic in our state," Michael Aldridge, executive director of the ACLU of Kentucky, said in a statement. (medscape.com)

The first organized action was initiated by U.S. Catholic bishops who recommended in 1973 that the U.S. Constitution should be amended to ban abortion. (wikipedia.org)

HHS says the new rule reduces "any confusion" on the part of "Title X clinics and the public" about what is "permissible. (thechristian.ng)

Most in-clinic abortions only take about 5-10 minutes, while a medication abortion may take up to 24 hours to complete. (wholewomanshealth.com)
Patients often prefer medication abortions over surgical abortions because they are cheaper, require less time at a clinic, and offer them greater privacy and more control. (wfsu.org)
In their lawsuit, the clinics argue that these restrictions "stigmatize and undermine access to medication abortion. (apnews.com)
A fourth Montana clinic, Blue Mountain Clinic in Missoula, will provide abortion medication to patients who are physically in the state, even if they are residents of another state, said executive director Nicole Smith. (ctpublic.org)
The use of telemedicine to administer medication abortion is prohibited. (guttmacher.org)
A federal appeals court recently ruled that medication abortions could continue in Texas, along with surgical procedures for patients approaching the state's 22-week cutoff. (wkar.org)

But a woman going to a different state may face other state regulations that she wouldn't face in Illinois, such as mandatory delays and what reproductive rights groups call biased-counseling , which often includes irrelevant or misleading information about risks of abortion and mental health effects. (northwestern.edu)
Her work focuses on political, social and cultural divides in America, including abortion and reproductive rights, and the intersections of politics and religion. (wkar.org)

The bill originally would allow abortions only in medical emergencies to save the life of the mother. (arkansasonline.com)

Some of the most common state-level abortion restrictions are parental notification or consent requirements for minors, limitations on public funding, mandated counseling designed to dissuade individuals from obtaining an abortion, mandated waiting periods before an abortion, and unnecessary and overly burdensome regulations on abortion facilities. (guttmacher.org)
The state requires abortion clinics to meet unnecessary and burdensome standards related to their physical plant, equipment and staffing. (guttmacher.org)

Senate Bill 924 reclassifies any health clinic that provides five or more first trimester abortions a month as an outpatient surgical center rather than a physician's office, which is the current classification. (reason.com)
A separate provision, which hasn't gone into effect, requires clinics to maintain the same standards as hospital-like ambulatory surgical center," The Tribune reported . (keranews.org)
And a survey by the Texas Policy Evaluation Project found clinicians sometimes avoided standard abortion procedures, opting instead for "hysterotomy, a surgical incision into the uterus, because it might not be construed as an abortion. (kenw.org)

ASHEVILLE - When state health inspectors suspended Western North Carolina's only abortion clinic's operations in the aftermath of a heated debate over a new abortion law last summer, some observers questioned the timing. (carolinapublicpress.org)

For first-trimester abortions, the complication rate is 0.3 percent , throwing doubt on the safety argument. (reason.com)
Abortion mortality is an important global documented the safety of D & C for second trimester public health problem but a relatively neglected abortions. (bvsalud.org)
First-trimester abortions often require only local anesthesia, but clinicians trained in using anesthesia may offer sedation in addition. (msdmanuals.com)

The documents provide some clarification of the role this single clinic played in state politics regarding abortion access and health care regulations - a dispute that garnered national attention. (carolinapublicpress.org)

Last April, the Virginia Board of Health approved strict new regulations for abortion providers. (reason.com)
All of this information is critical to ensure patients can exercise informed consent - and it is well established that states can pass regulations to promote informed consent. (truthout.org)
Under a set of 2012 regulations, the Jindal administration required abortion clinics to undergo the same "facility need review" required of residential care facilities, like nursing homes and hospice facilities. (lifesitenews.com)
The state health department used those regulations to refuse Planned Parenthood's application. (lifesitenews.com)

Jennifer Branch, who represents the Toledo clinic, says that means women there are being denied their constitutional right to abortion. (statenews.org)

WASHINGTON (CNS) - The Senate voted late March 30 to override a rule change made by in the last days of the Obama administration that prevented states from redirecting Title X family planning funding away from clinics that performed abortions and to community clinics that provide comprehensive health care. (catholiccourier.com)
Under the Hyde Amendment, federal funding for abortion already is prohibited, but federal family planning funds were allowed to go to clinics and facilities for other health services. (catholiccourier.com)
A woman who chooses to have an abortion, says Quigley, should be able to do so without fearing for her health and safety. (reason.com)
Even many grassroots Republicans have denounced their policies, like turning down Medicaid health coverage for 500,000 people in one of the nation's most impoverished states. (progressive.org)
Early estimates by state health officials show 54,191 abortions were performed in Texas in 2014 - down from 63,168 in 2013. (keranews.org)
According to state Department of Health data, about 20 percent of the roughly 4,500 abortions performed in New Mexico in 2014 involved women from out of state, the Albuquerque Journal reports . (keranews.org)
Imagine that you go to a health care clinic with a time-sensitive medical condition. (truthout.org)
In fact, the number of CPCs in the United States vastly outnumbers real reproductive health clinics . (truthout.org)
But as women came to realize how much abortion and cigarettes hurt their health and their lives, they cut back. (jillstanek.com)
On May 16, an anti-abortion group also represented by the Thomas More Society sued the city of Carbondale, Illinois, over an ordinance it passed in January that blocks protesters from approaching people within 100 feet of health care facility entrances. (tampabay.com)
Cox said the proposed legislation makes Arkansas "one of the most responsible states when it comes to protecting the unborn and protecting the health and safety of women. (arkansasonline.com)
According to the Kansas Department of Health and Environment, 78 girls 14 years old and younger had abortions in 2003. (christianitytoday.com)
Planned Parenthood's $4 million health center, expected to open later this year, would be the third clinic offering abortions in the New Orleans area. (lifesitenews.com)
Ohio Department of Health statistics show the number of abortions in Ohio was at an all-time low . (statenews.org)
But the Department of Health and Human Services said clinics that opted out were choosing to "place higher priority on the ability to refer for abortion instead of continuing to receive federal funds to provide a broad range of acceptable and effective family planning methods and services. (thechristian.ng)
Health plans offered in the state's health exchange under the Affordable Care Act can only cover abortion in cases of life endangerment, or in cases of rape or incest. (guttmacher.org)
An abortion may be performed at or after viability only in cases of life endangerment or severely compromised health. (guttmacher.org)
News reports and court affidavits have documented how health care workers sometimes deny women abortion procedures in emergency situations - including NPR's story of a woman who was initially not treated for her miscarriage at an Ohio ER, though she'd been bleeding profusely for hours. (kenw.org)
Tocce said her health centers are taking steps to mitigate those risks, including screening patients for symptoms, having patients wear masks at clinics and relying on technologies like telemedicine when possible. (wkar.org)
The World Health making abortion a crime. (bvsalud.org)
Starting with the "bad old days" public health problems of abortion. (bvsalud.org)
Upon in-depth review of the reports, 1,429 to abortion for the poor--indeed the poor are more were indeed related to maternal and child health likely to get an abortion. (bvsalud.org)
death was attributed to abortion, whether the The American Public Health Association urges abortion was spontaneous or induced, and if medical and public health schools, residency induced, whether it was a legal or illegal abortion. (bvsalud.org)
While health planning/contraception and comprehensive abortion systems around the world are being challenged by care, including post abortion care are integrated in increasing demand for care of COVID-19 patients, it is the essential health services package in 12 (80%) of critical to all other services including sexual reproductive the 15 countries that have sexual reproductive health health services. (who.int)
9(59%) of the countries reported reduction in and reproductive health services with a focus on safe the use of family planning services, 6(35%) indicated no abortion, post abortion care and family planning services changes in the use of family planning services with only during the COVID -19 pandemic in selected countries of 2(12%) countries providing no response. (who.int)
A descriptive survey using a simplified and health systems of the participating member states of the user-friendly virtual web based rapid needs assessment WHO Africa Region and the magnitude of disruptions through a questionnaire was filled in by key informants of sexual reproductive health services in selected drawn from the ministries of health from 30 countries countries. (who.int)
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If local or state health departments cannot be reached, contact the CDC directly. (medscape.com)

The purpose of this abortion care and post abortion care during the COVID report was to assess and document continuity of sexual pandemic. (who.int)

Gene Mills, president of the Louisiana Family Forum, said the Capitol's reputation for supporting anti-abortion bills could make a Texas-style law possible. (houstonpublicmedia.org)
Rep. Beryl Amedée, a Republican from Houma who authored one of the anti-abortion bills that passed the legislature this year, said she'd consider a law similar to SB 8. (houstonpublicmedia.org)
Meanwhile, hundreds of anti-abortion activists are expected to descend on the Oklahoma Capitol on Wednesday for the annual Rose Day where they present red roses meant to signify the lives of the unborn and encourage the passage of anti-abortion bills. (nbcdfw.com)

Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant, who has endorsed a number of restrictive anti-abortion measures in recent years, strongly supported the new ban. (vox.com)
Two abortion providers in Oklahoma said Tuesday that they're still seeing a massive influx of women from Texas who want to terminate their pregnancies after Texas last year passed the most restrictive anti-abortion law in the U.S. in decades. (nbcdfw.com)

An Associated Press analysis conducted last month shows seven of Ohio's 16 abortion facilities have closed or curtailed services since 2011 thanks to laws passed by majority Republicans. (wcbe.org)

Family Council President Jerry Cox praised the bill's Senate passage, saying HB1439 "dials back the time at which a woman can get an abortion on demand. (arkansasonline.com)

In many states, the medications can be shipped to the patient after a telemedicine appointment. (wfsu.org)
In South Dakota, a law that bans abortions by telemedicine took effect July 1. (wfsu.org)

Quigley and other supporters point to the deplorable conditions in abortion clinics such as the one run by Kermit Gosnell in Philadelphia. (reason.com)
And, tragically, some of these children die from lack of appropriate medical care and treatment or at the hands of abortion providers like Kermit Gosnell. (aul.org)
Over the past five weeks, the testimony in the criminal trial of notorious late-term abortionist Kermit Gosnell underscores (yet again) that unborn children do survive attempted abortions. (aul.org)

These centers must now decide between two options: accept funds to support their patients who might not otherwise be able to afford family planning care or withhold information from patients about abortion services, "Power to Decide said in its report. (thechristian.ng)

Abortion is covered in insurance policies for public employees only in cases of life endangerment, rape or incest. (guttmacher.org)

However, since 2010, the U.S. abortion landscape has grown increasingly restrictive as more states adopt laws hostile to abortion rights. (guttmacher.org)

Some 38% of reproductive-age women lived in those counties and would have had to travel elsewhere to obtain an abortion. (guttmacher.org)

Methods of Abortion. (ewtn.com)

In response to this stark reality, each year a number of states consider common-sense and humane legislation mandating that infants who survive attempted abortions be given appropriate medical care and treatment. (aul.org)
Florida is among those states considering such legislation this year, seeking to join 29 other states that have enacted such protections. (aul.org)
Florida's consideration of born-alive infant protection legislation is a much-needed response to reported incidents both in Florida and nationwide of born-alive infants dying following attempted abortions or being injured or disabled as a result of those abortions. (aul.org)
But that didn't keep the legislature from passing more abortion legislation . (statenews.org)

Permits abortions to be performed in clinics and physician's offices. (ontheissues.org)

A patient must undergo an ultrasound before obtaining an abortion. (guttmacher.org)

HB 2 Would Function As "A Complete Ban On Abortion" For Texas Latinas Who "Face Severe Burdens In Accessing Reproductive Healthcare. (mediamatters.org)

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