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Georgia was the fourth state this year to pass anti-abortion "heartbeat" legislation, but Democratic presidential candidates have taken aim at the state's law banning most abortions after six weeks that's set to go into effect in January. (cnn.com)
This year, a series of strict anti-abortion bills have been passed with the intention to reshape women's access to the procedure. (cnn.com)
Donald Trump is facing new blowback from anti-abortion activists for refusing to commit to national abortion restrictions and for calling Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis' signing of a six-week ban on the procedure a "terrible mistake. (yahoo.com)
So far, the former president has dominated the 2024 field while at times spurning the anti-abortion groups that traditionally have huge influence in Republican primaries. (yahoo.com)
Following Sunday's interview, the country's largest anti-abortion organization, which backs a national ban on abortions at 15 weeks of pregnancy, quickly released a statement saying anything less restrictive 'makes no sense. (yahoo.com)
She later became an anti-abortion activist. (wtop.com)
Another name that often arises in the debate is that of is Robert P. Casey, a former Democratic governor of Pennsylvania who was an anti-abortion advocate. (wtop.com)
"Politicians who don't respect the dignity of pregnant people will stop at nothing to advance their anti-abortion agenda, including using the legal system as a weapon against people who provide and support abortion care," said Cassie Ehrenberg, Senior Counsel for Pro Bono Initiatives at the Lawyering Project. (lawyeringproject.org)
Anti-abortion-rights leaders in Columbia are feeling galvanized by the latest legal ruling, after working for years for this outcome, but they also say their work in the city isn't done. (kpbs.org)
Although anti-abortion lawmakers may want to restrict this practice, it's important to point out that in his concurring opinion in Dobbs, Justice Brett Kavanaugh stressed that interstate travel for abortions remains legal. (findlaw.com)
That is not stopping some anti-abortion groups from trying to stop interstate travel for abortion , however. (findlaw.com)
Now, pro- and anti-abortion advocates are gearing up for a new phase of the abortion conflict. (talkingpointsmemo.com)
In the mid- to late-1800s, an increasing number of states passed anti-abortion laws sparked by both moral and safety concerns. (talkingpointsmemo.com)
Primarily motivated by fears about high risks for injury or death, medical practitioners in particular led the charge for anti-abortion laws during this era. (talkingpointsmemo.com)
The anti-abortion movement references statements made by Anthony that appear to denounce abortion. (talkingpointsmemo.com)
These differing historical interpretations offer two distinct framings for both historical and contemporary abortion and anti-abortion activism. (talkingpointsmemo.com)
Thousands of anti-abortion activists from all over the U.S. gather on the Washington Monument grounds during the annual Right To Life March, Washington DC, January 22, 1985. (talkingpointsmemo.com)
Anti-abortion groups oppose the Planned Parenthood partnership and are preparing for a marathon effort to restrict abortion rights in Illinois. (ijpr.org)
The anti-abortion movement's framing was basically, 'We're protecting women from the 'abortion industry' by regulating the way abortion providers work. (kpbs.org)
Also Tuesday, Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America, a major anti-abortion group, announced it is working with Kellyanne Conway , a former adviser to President Donald Trump, to "get pro-life candidates on offense in the 2024 election cycle. (morningsun.net)

An unsafe abortion is the termination of a pregnancy by people lacking the necessary skills, or in an environment lacking minimal medical standards, or both. (wikipedia.org)
Unsafe abortions are also one of the leading causes of deaths during pregnancy and childbirth (about 5-13% of all deaths during this period). (wikipedia.org)
Those bills generally ban abortions after a fetal heartbeat is detected, which can be as early as six weeks into a pregnancy - when many women don't yet know they're pregnant . (cnn.com)
Oregon is leading the way with a state law that makes abortion legal throughout pregnancy while others only permit abortion prior to viability or to protect the health and life of a woman. (cnn.com)
Banning abortion at six weeks of pregnancy, as Florida enacted earlier this year, is unpopular with the U.S. public , according to an Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research conducted in June. (yahoo.com)
And as the price of abortion (which can typically range between $350-3,500) is contingent upon how far along a pregnancy is, longer wait times translate into a more costly procedure - and that's assuming you have the money. (austinchronicle.com)
The Zika emergency is forcing pro-life South American countries to confront their pregnancy and abortion policies, sometimes in bizarre ways. (huffpost.com)
According to the 2021 Terminated Pregnancy Report from the Indiana Department of Health, there were 8,414 abortions in Indiana in 2021, 512 of which were performed at the Planned Parenthood of Bloomington. (idsnews.com)
All-Options Pregnancy Resource Center is a national nonprofit organization that has been providing support and promoting reproductive justice since 2004. (idsnews.com)
With abortion, like all pregnancy care, time is of the essence. (adn.com)
The ruling affirmed the right to have an abortion during the first 12 weeks of pregnancy. (talkingpointsmemo.com)
What happens is that the woman terminates the pregnancy by herself, like with an organization at a private clinic," Liñan said. (theworld.org)
It's a gentler way of saying having an abortion without invoking what actually has to happen to end your pregnancy. (scarymommy.com)
For example, if doctors have provided a woman with abortion care for pregnancy due to rape, the same woman can not have access to abortion care from the same doctors for a medical emergency. (privacyinternational.org)
Meanwhile, the Government Regulation No. 61/2014 on the Reproductive Health regulates a maximum of exactly 40 days of pregnancy for a victim of rape to be able to obtain an abortion. (privacyinternational.org)
Other states like Illinois, New York and Maine have protective policies but abortion is banned at fetal viability, which is generally between 24 and 26 weeks of pregnancy. (globalnews.ca)
The Court's opinion delivers a wrecking ball to the constitutional right to abortion, destroying the protections of Roe v. Wade, and utterly disregarding the one in four women in America who make the decision to end a pregnancy. (reproductiverights.org)
The Center argued the case , which challenged a Mississippi law banning abortion after 15 weeks of pregnancy that had been struck down as unconstitutional by a lower court. (reproductiverights.org)
The poll found that 73% of all U.S. adults believe abortion should be allowed up to six weeks of pregnancy, which is when cardiac activity in a fetus may be detected and before women often know they're pregnant. (pressenterpriseonline.com)
Among them was South Carolina state Rep. John McCravy, who sponsored the most recent, restrictive abortion measure, which bans the practice in his state after around six weeks of pregnancy. (pressenterpriseonline.com)
In states where abortion is restricted, health care providers may be in the position of counseling patients who want an abortion, including those facing pregnancy complications, in a legal context that treats them as potential criminals. (kpbs.org)
In the meantime, the right to abortion will continue until 24 weeks of pregnancy, beginning on July 8th. (womensenews.org)
Women who immediately regret taking the first abortion pill and who urgently need support to try and save the pregnancy are being denied access to care due to this ban. (christiantoday.com)
A medicine called misoprostol, that can be used to induce a safe abortion at home (till 12 weeks of pregnancy) is available in Morocco under the brand name Artotec. (womenonwaves.org)
According to the World Health Organization (WHO), unsafe abortion methods cause 13% of pregnancy-related deaths. (womenonwaves.org)
Abortion surveillance in the United States continues to provide the data necessary for examining trends in numbers and characteristics of women who obtain legal induced abortions and to increase understanding of this pregnancy outcome. (cdc.gov)
Currently, bans on abortion at all stages of pregnancy are in effect in 14 states. (morningsun.net)
Abortion-rights activists wait for state lawmakers to arrive before a Senate vote on a ban on abortion after six weeks of pregnancy at the South Carolina Statehouse on May 23, 2023 in Columbia, S.C. A bipartisan group of five women led a filibuster that failed to block the legislation. (publicintegrity.org)
Moreover, it led to a shift to terminations earlier in pregnancy and to more equitable access to abortion for the poor-indeed the poor are more likely to get an abortion. (bvsalud.org)
People use pennyroyal for the common cold, pneumonia, fatigue, ending a pregnancy (abortion), and as an insect repellant, but there is no good scientific evidence to support these uses. (medlineplus.gov)

Organizations like the American Civil Liberties Union and Planned Parenthood argue the laws are unconstitutional. (cnn.com)
a Planned Parenthood site that recently had to halt its abortion services in the midst of a highly publicized legal fight in the state. (kpbs.org)
Together, these rules have forced all but one Planned Parenthood health center in the state - the one in St. Louis - to stop offering both medical and surgical abortions, according to Emily Miller, a spokesperson for the organization. (kpbs.org)
Emily Wales, the general counsel at Planned Parenthood Great Plains, says her team has ongoing litigation against the federal court's ruling in addition to several other laws that make it harder for Planned Parenthood to provide abortions in the state - and is awaiting the court's response. (kpbs.org)
Planned Parenthood at Bloomington Health Center is seen Sept. 23, 2021, at 421 S. College Ave. As Indiana's abortion ban went into effect Sept. 15, 2022, many local organizations are offering resources for people after the overturn of Roe v. Wade. (idsnews.com)
According to its website, Planned Parenthood wants to help with information and financial resources, where available, to get abortion care in other states. (idsnews.com)
The Bloomington Planned Parenthood also provides resources such as finding abortion clinics nearby, getting facts about abortions and answering questions people may have. (idsnews.com)
That's why a group of organizations - Planned Parenthood Federation of America, Planned Parenthood Great Northwest Hawai'i, Alaska, Indiana, Kentucky, Legal Voice, and ACLU of Alaska - filed a lawsuit in 2019 to overturn the APC ban and empower qualified health care professionals to provide abortion. (adn.com)
State-by-state battles are heating up in the wake of news that the U.S. Supreme Court appears poised to overrule landmark rulings - Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood v. Casey - and remove constitutional protection for the right to get an abortion. (talkingpointsmemo.com)
A room in a Planned Parenthood of Illinois clinic in Waukegan, where abortion providers from Wisconsin are helping to provide access to more patients from their home state now that abortion is nearly banned there. (ijpr.org)
The Waukegan clinic is Planned Parenthood of Illinois' busiest for out-of-state abortion patients. (ijpr.org)
After Roe was struck down, Planned Parenthood organizations in both states announced their partnership . (ijpr.org)
Q: On Healthcare: Should Planned Parenthood be eligible to receive public funds for non-abortion health services? (issues2000.org)
Roe and the abortion decisions that came after it like Planned Parenthood v. Casey , "had the framework that abortion is some sort of individual right, but it's also health care," explains Carmel Shachar , executive director of the Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics at Harvard Law School. (kpbs.org)
Planned Parenthood Great Plains president and CEO Emily Wales said the organization's Kansas clinics, which already saw many patients travel from Missouri and Texas because of tight restrictions in those states, are forced to turn away 85-90% of people requesting abortions because of a lack of appointments. (kmuw.org)
Today, I explain why Dobbs is the most important abortion case to reach the Court in nearly thirty years-since Planned Parenthood v. Casey (1992), the case in which a splintered Court, by the narrowest of 5-4 margins, reaffirmed Roe , not because a majority of the justices thought Roe was right, but on the basis of the judicial doctrine of " stare decisis . (thepublicdiscourse.com)
According to a recent Huffington Post article relaying information from leaked emails from someone in your organization, it's clear you've been lining things up to cut Planned Parenthood funding for a while. (foxbusiness.com)
Planned Parenthood is shifting funding to its state affiliates and cutting national office staff to reflect a changed landscape in both how abortion is provided and how battles over access are playing out. (morningsun.net)
We are in a moment when I just believe that Planned Parenthood needs to change, too," said Alexis McGill Johnson, president and CEO of the two arms of the organization: the political Planned Parenthood Action Fund and the network for local service providers, the Planned Parenthood Federation of America. (morningsun.net)

The constitutional right to an abortion in the United States granted via Roe v. Wade has never been a promise to actual abortion access due to cost, lack of insurance coverage, limited geography of clinics, and unending state-based restrictions by anti-choice politicians. (guidestar.org)
Now as we approach the dismantling of Roe v. Wade by this Supreme Court, it is time for a radical change in logistics, structure, and funding strategy to ensure abortion care. (guidestar.org)
Campbell said it is not Network Lobby's mission to be "in the fight for Roe v. Wade ," the Supreme Court decision that mandated legal abortion nationwide. (catholicnewsagency.com)
Abortion is legal under Roe v. Wade , the 1973 Supreme Court decision that legalized abortion in all 50 states. (cnn.com)
New York passed a law to protect women's access to abortion right on the 46th anniversary of Roe v. Wade earlier this year. (cnn.com)
The Supreme Court ruling overturning Roe v. Wade left the decision of whether and how to restrict abortion to the states, creating a patchwork of laws across the country, with most Republican-led states imposing new restrictions and states led by Democrats passing protections. (yahoo.com)
Dr. Thomas Dobbs, Mississippi's top public health official, is named in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization, a dispute over a state law that would ban most abortions after the 15th week and could be used to overturn Roe v. Wade. (wtop.com)
Until now, the name most associated with the abortion debate has been Jane Roe, a pseudonym for a Dallas woman named Norma McCorvey, who was the plaintiff in the famous Roe v. Wade case. (wtop.com)
This initiative was created in response to the overturning of Roe v. Wade and the unprecedented legal needs of those trying to navigate a confusing and hostile legal landscape. (lawyeringproject.org)
"The overturning of Roe v. Wade has unleashed nonstop legal chaos and confusion," said Nancy Northup, president and CEO of the Center for Reproductive Rights. (lawyeringproject.org)
As NPR reports , a 1960's rubella outbreak brought abortion to national attention in the U.S., and paved the way to Roe v. Wade. (huffpost.com)
Many local organizations are offering resources for people after the overturn of Roe v. Wade. (idsnews.com)
Several weeks after the overturning of Roe v. Wade, the Penn community remains vocal about the Supreme Court's decision to terminate the constitutional right to an abortion. (thedp.com)
On June 24, the court officially voted 5-4 to overturn Roe v. Wade, eliminating the constitutional right to an abortion. (thedp.com)
It began more than a century before Roe v. Wade, the 1973 ruling that established that the Constitution protects a person's right to an abortion. (talkingpointsmemo.com)
Hartwig is essentially working part time in Illinois because when Roe v Wade was overturned in June , a Wisconsin law immediately took effect that bans nearly all abortions, except to save the life of the pregnant person. (ijpr.org)
In fact, the organization opened in Waukegan two years ago with Wisconsin in mind, knowing that if Roe v. Wade did fall, access to abortion in that state would greatly diminish. (ijpr.org)
Yet I still believe with every fiber of my being that Roe v. Wade should remain legal. (scarymommy.com)
Safe haven states: Where is abortion still legal now that Roe v. Wade is overturned? (globalnews.ca)
As more states move to ban abortions following the U.S. Supreme Court overturning Roe v. Wade, critics fear the consequences this will have on women. (globalnews.ca)
Now that the U.S. Supreme Court has ruled to overturn the landmark Roe v. Wade decision that has for decades affirmed the right to abortion , only some states across the country will still protect access. (globalnews.ca)
In 2006, McCain wrote a letter to the National Right to Life Committee stating, "I share our common goal of reducing the staggering number of abortions currently performed in this country and overturning the Roe v. Wade decision. (issues2000.org)
U.S. Supreme Court overturns Roe v. Wade and revokes the constitutional right to abortion. (reproductiverights.org)
In a devastating decision that will reverberate for generations, the U.S. Supreme Court has abandoned its duty to protect fundamental rights and overturned Roe v. Wade , ruling there is no constitutional right to abortion. (reproductiverights.org)
The case marked the first time the Court considered the constitutionality of a pre-viability abortion ban since Roe v. Wade . (reproductiverights.org)
Mississippi asked the Court not only to uphold its abortion ban, but to overrule Roe v. Wade and rule there is no constitutional right to abortion. (reproductiverights.org)
Doctors were at the heart of the court's first landmark ruling on abortion, Roe v. Wade . (kpbs.org)
Abortions at Kansas clinics rose 36% after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade - and the number of Kansans ordering abortion pills from overseas doubled. (kmuw.org)
WICHITA, Kansas - In August alone, hundreds more women sought abortions in Kansas than before the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade and many nearby states banned the procedure. (kmuw.org)
For the first time in a generation and a half-nearly thirty years-there is a realistic chance that the Supreme Court might overrule Roe v. Wade , the Court's 1973 decision establishing a constitutional right to abortion. (thepublicdiscourse.com)
The organization plays a unique role in the US reproductive rights ecosystem by successfully exploiting legal loopholes that make it easier for an overseas doctor to care for American patients in restrictive states - a role that could become even more key if Roe v. Wade is struck down . (vox.com)
Outrage sparked nationwide in response to a leaked Supreme Court draft to overturn Roe v. Wade, which set the precedent to protect a woman's right to an abortion in the '70s. (queensledger.com)
He emphasized that overturning Roe v. Wade would simply be a ban on safe abortions, and that women would continue to seek them in other ways - many of which are unsafe. (queensledger.com)
The changes are to kick in on July 1, just over a year after the U.S. Supreme Court ruling that overturned Roe v. Wade , the 1973 decision that provided a right to abortion across the country. (morningsun.net)
Following the US Supreme Court decisions, Roe v Wade and in 1973, abortion became legal throughout the US and well accepted in areas which had achieved the second demographic transition 3 . (bvsalud.org)
BACKGROUND: This study provides a baseline assessment of abortion incidence and service delivery prior to Roe v. Wade being overturned. (bvsalud.org)
However, this report demonstrates that the need for abortion care was growing just prior to the overturning Roe v. Wade, and the impact of this decision will be even more far-reaching than previously expected. (bvsalud.org)

Abortion rights supporters stand during a news conference by Presidential candidate Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y., at the Georgia State Capitol in Atlanta on Thursday, May 16, 2019 to discuss abortion bans in Georgia and across the country. (cnn.com)
Abortion bans continue popping up across the United States, leaving many people wondering where their states stand. (cnn.com)
Are these abortion bans in effect? (cnn.com)
Regarding the bill signed by DeSantis, which bans abortions before many women know they are pregnant, Trump said, "I think what he did is a terrible thing and a terrible mistake. (yahoo.com)
Many states have conflicting and overlapping abortion bans that make it nearly impossible to know what is legal and what is not. (lawyeringproject.org)
As abortion bans take hold in many states, questions arise about the legality of abortion pills. (findlaw.com)
D ozens of clinics closed across the nation as 11 states in the South and Midwest implemented bans, according to the Guttmacher Institute, a nonprofit that supports abortion rights and tracks the issue. (ijpr.org)
I think the public understands the abortion bans," said Gretchen Borchelt, director of state reproductive health policy at the National Women's Law Center. (politico.com)
Three states passed 20-week bans, also known as fetal pain laws, bringing to nine the number of states outlawing abortion midpregnancy. (politico.com)
Yet courts subsequently blocked the first-trimester bans of North Dakota and Arkansas, legal fights continue over the bans in other states, and the movement to restrict abortions at 20 weeks - on the grounds that a fetus at that stage of development feels pain - remains highly controversial. (politico.com)
Federal legislation to protect abortion access from harmful bans and restrictions. (reproductiverights.org)
But the state has become an unlikely abortion destination for people across the South and Midwest, where so many others have enacted near-total abortion bans. (kmuw.org)
The organization plans to increase funding for non-abortion health services in states with bans. (morningsun.net)
For now, the state has an influx of abortion patients from neighboring Kentucky and West Virginia and other states with bans. (morningsun.net)
This has led to a patchwork of laws that span the entire range from complete bans and tight restrictions to full state protection for abortion. (publicintegrity.org)

Biden, a Catholic, has distanced himself from past support for some restrictions on abortion. (catholicnewsagency.com)
Trump has approached abortion from a political stance, saying that the Supreme Court's decision gave conservatives room to negotiate new restrictions. (yahoo.com)
He has argued Republicans' push for abortion restrictions hurt the GOP in the 2022 midterm elections and that GOP candidates need to do a better job of explaining the issue. (yahoo.com)
Providing abortion care in Missouri really is complex and it involves so many different restrictions," Wales says. (kpbs.org)
Like most abortion restrictions, this law disproportionately harms Alaska's rural and most underserved communities, including Alaska Native and American Indian people who have endured a history of state-controlled reproduction , coercion, and denial of bodily autonomy. (adn.com)
In 2019 alone, according to the Guttmacher Institute, lawmakers across the United States have enacted 58 new restrictions on access to abortion care and family planning. (now.org)
Nearly two dozen states enacted 70 abortion restrictions during 2013, the second-highest annual total ever, according to the report. (politico.com)
The court essentially told states: "You can put restrictions on abortion services and on provider qualifications as you do for other types of health care, and as long as they are not so onerous that we think they're implicating Roe and Casey , we're fine with that," Shachar says. (kpbs.org)
It was actually states that already have some restrictions - states in the middle, that are closest to the states that banned abortion. (kmuw.org)
These theories range from the merely strained and historically insupportable-the claim that abortion restrictions constitute sex discrimination in violation of the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment is the most common-to the comically absurd and outlandish. (thepublicdiscourse.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)
The group also plans to increase funding in places where abortion remains legal in order to help serve patients who travel from states with restrictions. (morningsun.net)
Trends in rates of live births and abortions following state restrictions on public funding of abortion. (cdc.gov)

A leaked draft of a U.S. Supreme Court opinion shows a conservative majority of justices are ready to use the case to topple the court's landmark 1973 ruling that established abortion rights nationwide. (wtop.com)
With her past activism experience with feminist and health care organizations, Hufschmid saw the court's decision as a harsh effort to stifle female autonomy. (thedp.com)
The European Union Parliament voted 324-155 in a July 7 resolution condemning the court's decision to overturn abortion rights and adding the right to abortion in the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights . (thedp.com)
Since the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization giving states the power to make their own decisions about abortion, the availability and legality of the pills vary widely. (findlaw.com)
The Court's decision will likely lead to half of U.S. states immediately taking action to ban abortion outright, forcing people to travel hundreds and thousands of miles to access abortion care or to carry pregnancies against their will, a grave violation of their human rights. (reproductiverights.org)
A more recent abortion decision - Gonzales v. Carhart in 2007 - previewed the Supreme Court's move away from deferring to doctors in the context of abortion, Ziegler says. (kpbs.org)
Dobbs is important because it frames a direct challenge to Roe and Casey , forcing the Court to confront the legal indefensibility and radicalism of the Court's pro-abortion jurisprudence. (thepublicdiscourse.com)
In the year since the U.S. Supreme Court's Dobbs v. Jackson ruling struck down the constitutional right to abortion , society has been seeing the results of a post-Roe world. (publicintegrity.org)
Lawyers cited these investigative reports before the U.S. Supreme Court thus contributing to the Court's decision to overthrow state laws making abortion a crime. (bvsalud.org)

In 2018, five activist judges of the Iowa Supreme Court created an unlimited "right" to abortion by striking down an Iowa law providing for a three-day reflection period before an abortion is performed. (iowartl.org)
Supreme Court case will decide the future of abortion access in the U.S. (austinchronicle.com)
and the final part - temporarily blocked by the U.S. Supreme Court - forces abortion clinics to make expensive changes to conform with the same building requirements as ambulatory surgical centers (ASCs). (austinchronicle.com)
A group of Brazilian lawyers, scientists and activists will petition the country's Supreme Court to allow abortions if a baby would be born with microcephaly, as detailed in the Newsy video above. (huffpost.com)
Protesters on both sides of the abortion debate demonstrated in front of the U.S. Supreme Court in July concerning Justice Brett Kavanaugh's confirmation. (kpbs.org)
In the month after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned the landmark decision, Illinois became even more of an oasis for people seeking abortions. (ijpr.org)
She says the controversy over whether to allow abortion in the case of rape continued until 2012 when the Argentine Supreme Court moved to clarify the law. (theworld.org)
Sutton says the latter interpretation prevailed in the Supreme Court in 2012, allowing abortions in all cases of rape - not just those with mental disabilities. (theworld.org)
Let me be clear: You cannot ban abortion, you can only ban safe abortions - and this disgraceful Supreme Court decision will undoubtedly put many people's lives at risk, in addition to stripping away a constitutional right that disproportionately affects women and has been settled law for most of our lifetimes," Brown added. (globalnews.ca)
The Supreme Court has made it clear - they want to strip women of their liberty and let Republican states replace it with mandated birth because the right to choose an abortion is not 'deeply rooted in history,'" said California Governor Gavin Newsom. (globalnews.ca)
The U.S. Supreme Court issued its ruling in this case on June 24, 2022, taking away the constitutional right to abortion, abandoning almost 50 years of precedent, and paving the way for states to ban abortion. (reproductiverights.org)
The landmark Supreme Court ruling recognizing the right to abortion. (reproductiverights.org)
Yet doctors and patients are all but absent from the latest Supreme Court majority opinion on abortion in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization . (kpbs.org)
In Dobbs, the latest decision about abortion from the Supreme Court, "it's an even bigger breach because there's not even the pretense of caring about doctors," she says. (kpbs.org)
In Texas, the state Supreme Court allowed a 1925 law banning abortion to take effect late on Friday night, overturning a lower court ruling that had temporarily blocked it. (womensenews.org)
That's the same bogus legal reasoning on which the Supreme Court had rested its infamous Dred Scott decision in 1857, holding unconstitutional Congress's law prohibiting the introduction of slavery into federal territories. (thepublicdiscourse.com)

The Law on Health establishes a gestational age limit of six weeks after which doctors are not allowed to provide abortion care services, except for medical emergencies. (privacyinternational.org)
This provision could mean that a victim of rape can obtain abortion care no matter the gestational age. (privacyinternational.org)
This is because abortion is not restricted based on gestational age. (globalnews.ca)
New Mexico, Vermont and New Jersey also do not restrict abortion based on gestational age. (globalnews.ca)
Frequency of complications depends on gestational age (GA) at the time of miscarriage or abortion and method of abortion (see the Gestational Age from Estimated Date of Delivery calculator). (medscape.com)
In some states, such as Texas, Louisiana and Mississippi, abortion is banned beginning at six weeks gestational age, when very few women even know they are pregnant. (publicintegrity.org)
Mortality and morbidity depend on gestational age at the time of miscarriage or abortion. (medscape.com)

Indiana's abortion ban went into effect Sept. 15, 2022. (idsnews.com)
Eight in 10 Pennsylvania voters say abortion should be legal, although only 31% say that it should be legal under all circumstances, according to an April 2022 poll by Franklin and Marshall College. (thedp.com)
A new report by the Society of Family Planning, a research group that supports abortion rights, found the number of legal abortions performed in Kansas rose 36% between April and August of 2022 - the second-largest percentage increase in the U.S., behind only North Carolina. (kmuw.org)

State legislatures that wanted to restrict abortion did so using the apparatus of health care regulation, she says. (kpbs.org)
The effort to restrict abortion through medically unnecessary regulations - "was simultaneously, I think, treating abortion as health care and delegitimizing the idea that abortion is health care," Ziegler says. (kpbs.org)
While there is much ongoing confusion about the states where abortion is legal, where it is illegal, and where it has been further restricted, there is one thing we can be absolutely sure of: The status of abortion isn't settled -while some lawmakers are expected to propose new laws to restrict abortion access, others are moving to expand access. (womensenews.org)

That's why this united front of organizations dedicated to defending abortion access has come together. (lawyeringproject.org)

The Abortion Defense Network will refer abortion patients who need legal support to If/When/How's Repro Legal Helpline , which will continue to serve people seeking abortions who have legal questions or who have been threatened with arrest or prosecution. (lawyeringproject.org)

The World Health Organization (WHO) estimated that for the time period of 2010-14 there were 55.7 million abortions worldwide each year. (wikipedia.org)
The World Health organization declared a state of emergency around the virus on Monday. (huffpost.com)
The data presented here was collected by the Child and Adolescent Health Programme at the Division of Noncommunicable Diseases and Promoting Health through the Life course, World Health Organization Regional Office for Europe. (who.int)
According to the World Health Organization, about 68,000 women die each year due to complications from unsafe abortions, with sepsis as the main cause of death. (medscape.com)
The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates about 22 million unsafe abortions are performed worldwide each year and about 47,000 women die from unsafe abortion and 99% of these deaths occur in less developed regions of the world. (bvsalud.org)
The World Health Organization (WHO) convened a technical consultation during 1-2 December 2016 to review new evidence on the risk of HIV acquisition with the use of hormonal contraception. (bvsalud.org)
The Regional Director informed the Programme Subcommittee of the recent election of the World Health Organization Director-General, Dr J.W. Lee, whom he described as an experienced and friendly person. (who.int)
Ms. Greenberg also received an award from the World Health Organization (WHO) and the Brazilian Ministry of Health on October 18, 2012, during the annual meeting of the WHO Family of International Classifications (WHO-FIC) Network held in Brasilia, Brazil. (cdc.gov)

As the state's chief health officer, he is the person who must be named in any lawsuit related to abortion or other health issues, he explained recently in a post on Twitter. (wtop.com)
So, while the name at the center of the abortion debate could eventually change from "Roe" to "Dobbs," it is not the health officer but the state attorney general's office that is handling the state's case. (wtop.com)
In 1989, he worked with the state's legislature to enact a law that placed several limitations on abortion. (wtop.com)
Taken together, the package law - said to be one of the harshest and most destructive in the nation - has shuttered half of the state's abortion clinics and created a logistical nightmare for providers and patients. (austinchronicle.com)
Some approaches will push into different territory, including a Colorado proposal that asks voters to consider an embryo or fetus a separate legal "person" under the state's constitution in acts of violence against women. (politico.com)
That represents one of the most significant increases in abortion numbers in the country, reflecting the deep-red state's unlikely role as an abortion refuge in a region now increasingly devoid of other options. (kmuw.org)
Kansas voters soundly rejected a ballot measure earlier this year that could have led to an abortion ban - even as the state's Republican-controlled Legislature could be poised to further limit abortion access next year. (kmuw.org)

She said wealthy women can arrange abortions in private clinics, or hire an attorney to make a case for abortion to a local legal tribunal, whereas poor women can do neither. (huffpost.com)
Yet politicians and religious extremists are pushing for needless regulations that harm abortion care clinics and promote horrific lies about fetal pain and infanticide that have no basis in medical reality. (now.org)
But they don't understand how harmful things like regulation of clinics and restriction on medication abortion are to provider practice and to women's access to abortion. (politico.com)
Clinics in numerous states have been forced to close, leaving women with few options and energizing abortion opponents. (politico.com)
About a dozen clinics have shut since a law took effect there in October requiring abortion providers to have admitting privileges at a hospital within 30 miles. (politico.com)
States such as New York and California , which have passed legislation making themselves into sanctuaries for abortion access since the fall of Roe, saw only small increases in abortions by August according to the report, which relied on clinics self-reporting their abortion data. (kmuw.org)
Abortion providers say the chaos at Kansas clinics forces some residents of the state to travel elsewhere for care. (kmuw.org)
Members of local gender justice groups South Queens Women's March and Jahajee Sisters encouraged New Yorkers to continue to fight for safe abortion and support clinics that offer the service. (queensledger.com)
We also examined the number of abortion clinics, trends in medication abortion and service disruptions and changes in abortion protocols that occurred during the COVID-19 pandemic. (bvsalud.org)
The total number of clinics providing abortion care remained stable nationally but increased in the Midwest and the West and declined in the Northeast and South. (bvsalud.org)
A substantial minority of clinics adjusted protocols in response to COVID, most commonly adopting remote pre- and post-abortion counseling. (bvsalud.org)

About 25 million unsafe abortions occur a year, of which most occur in the developing world. (wikipedia.org)
Unsafe abortions result in complications for about 7 million women a year. (wikipedia.org)
Most unsafe abortions occur where modern birth control is unavailable, or in developing countries where affordable and well-trained medical practitioners are not readily available, or where abortion is illegal, with the more restrictive the law, the higher the rates of death and other complications. (wikipedia.org)
The first three chapters describe the magnitude of mortality and morbidity caused by unsafe abortions, define the essential components of abortion care at each level in the health system, and discuss the ways in which legal and societal factors affect abortion behaviour and care. (who.int)

Latin America has extremely restrictive abortion laws and and 95% of abortions performed there are unsafe. (huffpost.com)
Conservative states that ran into legal trouble passing some of the most restrictive abortion laws in the nation last year have shifted their approach for 2014: smaller instead of sweeping. (politico.com)
In contrast, Kansas has relatively restrictive abortion laws, including a ban after 22 weeks gestation, a mandatory 24-hour waiting period and a requirement that minors get consent from both parents or a judicial bypass before obtaining an abortion. (kmuw.org)
In the past year, women's rights organizations and women's health advocates have brought numerous legal challenges to restrictive abortion laws . (publicintegrity.org)
BACKGROUND: The quality of obstetric care has been identified as a contributing factor in Indonesia's persistently high level of maternal mortality, and the country's restrictive abortion laws merit special attention to the quality of post-abortion care (PAC). (bvsalud.org)

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) - Dr. Thomas Dobbs has never gotten involved in political fights over reproductive health, but his name has become shorthand for a legal case that could end abortion rights in the United States. (wtop.com)
Dobbs, 52, is a physician in charge of the state health department, which regulates Mississippi's only abortion clinic. (wtop.com)
Dobbs is a former state epidemiologist who became head of the health department in 2018, months after Mississippi's Republican-controlled Legislature passed the abortion-restriction law that's now at the center of the court case. (wtop.com)
During an online briefing hosted by the Mississippi State Medical Association in June 2021, Dobbs was asked about his name being on the abortion case. (wtop.com)
The Dobbs v. Jackson ruling returned decisions regarding abortion to individual states. (publicintegrity.org)

An unsafe abortion is a life-threatening procedure. (wikipedia.org)
He said he could "live with" the procedure being banned by individual states or nationwide through federal action, though he said 'from a legal standpoint, I think it's probably better" to be handled at the state level. (yahoo.com)
Determined, April conducted heavy research (a "part-time job" she calls it) trying to find out where she could go in Texas for the procedure, how much it would cost, and what kind of financial support was available, all the while striving to understand the complex hurdles imposed by House Bill 2, the four-part law restricting abortion access, passed during the 2013 legis-lative session. (austinchronicle.com)
Since another Missouri law requires a 72-hour waiting period between counseling about abortion and having the actual procedure, Huntington needed to call every patient on the day's schedule. (kpbs.org)
Wales says neither the admitting privileges requirement nor the ambulatory surgical center requirements are necessary, since abortion is widely considered a safe procedure . (kpbs.org)
The abortion-ban states are prohibiting or severely restricting all abortions, whether by medical procedure or medication. (findlaw.com)
Andrea Liñan, an Argentine abortion-rights activist, says it starts with the fact that many doctors are untrained to do the procedure. (theworld.org)
Abortion opponents counter that the procedure and the places that perform it warrant greater scrutiny to ensure women's safety. (politico.com)
The law also says doctors must be physically present when administering a medication abortion and must follow the FDA-approved protocol for the procedure, which entails a two-day administration with follow-up visit, rather than use a different protocol based on more recent medical evidence that many physicians favor. (politico.com)
In that poll, 56% of Republicans said abortion should be allowed in their state up to 6 weeks and 29% supported making the procedure legal up to 15 weeks. (pressenterpriseonline.com)
At stake was the legality of so-called "partial birth abortion," a procedure used to perform late-term abortions, which Congress had banned in 2003. (kpbs.org)
In part due to the political controversy over the acceptability of abortion as public health intervention, as a medical procedure, and as a woman's right, few public health research studies have been conducted to evaluate interventions to prevent abortion deaths - indeed most countries would be challenged to accurately document the public health problems of abortion. (bvsalud.org)

We Testify, a program of the National Network of Abortion Funds, is dedicated to increasing the spectrum of abortion storytellers in the public sphere and shifting the way the media understands the context and complexity of accessing abortion care. (guidestar.org)
We Testify seeks to build the power and leadership of abortion storytellers, particularly those of color, those from rural and conservative communities, those who are queer identified, those with varying abilities and citizenship statuses, and those who needed support when navigating barriers while accessing abortion care. (guidestar.org)

Now, the country's leaders are expecting religious organizations to perform life-destroying procedures that contradict their values. (lifenews.com)
Hoffman founded Choices Women's Medical Center in 1971 as one of the country's first abortion centers. (queensledger.com)

At least nine other states have laws protecting abortion. (cnn.com)

The suit was originally called Jackson Women's Health Organization v. Currier et al. (wtop.com)

In 1967 , NOW was the first national organization to publicly endorse the legalization of abortion and we have been fighting for women's right to choose ever since. (now.org)
MALI has invited Women on Waves to support the movement for legalization of abortion and to make information about the use of Artotec easily accessible. (womenonwaves.org)
In the United States, mortality from septic abortion rapidly declined after legalization of abortion. (medscape.com)

The National Network of Abortion Funds builds power with members to remove financial and logistical barriers to abortion access by centering people who have abortions and organizing at the intersections of racial, economic, and reproductive justice. (guidestar.org)
In July 2019, National Network of Abortion Funds launched a new national direct abortion fund. (guidestar.org)

Medication abortions" became legal in the U.S. in 2000, when the Food and Drug Administration approved mifepristone for early non-surgical abortions up to the 10th week of pregnancies. (findlaw.com)
The unnecessary delay pushes them further along in their pregnancies, increasing their safety risks, and shrinking the window for receiving an abortion altogether. (adn.com)
For example, enslaved black women in the U.S. developed abortifacients - drugs that induce abortions - and abortion practices as means to stop pregnancies after rapes by, and coerced sexual encounters with, white male slave owners. (talkingpointsmemo.com)
Medical abortion care encompasses the management of various clinical conditions including spontaneous and induced abortion (both viable and non-viable pregnancies), incomplete abortion and intrauterine fetal demise, as well as post-abortion contraception. (bvsalud.org)

The Biden administration, meanwhile, says it intends to do what it can to make abortion pills available. (findlaw.com)
Pro-life organizations are slamming President Joe Biden for promising to make abortion legal nationwide if Democrats keep their majorities in Congress. (breitbart.com)

The WHO reports that in developed regions, nearly all abortions (92%) are safe, whereas in developing countries, more than half (55%) are unsafe. (wikipedia.org)

The percentage of abortions by pills has risen steadily since then and now accounts for more than half of the total . (findlaw.com)

It includes self-induced abortions, abortions in unhygienic conditions, and abortions performed by a medical practitioner who does not provide appropriate post-abortion attention. (wikipedia.org)
and to assist in the development of programmes and policies that reduce unsafe abortion and improve access to safe abortion and high-quality post-abortion care. (wikipedia.org)

People in Alaska have long had what voters in Ohio just adopted - strong constitutional abortion rights to make decisions about their own bodies that the courts have affirmed over and over again. (adn.com)
We were in court for oral arguments last week to fight for the constitutional right to access abortion for all people in Alaska. (adn.com)
Under the APC ban, Alaska's constitutional right to abortion could be meaningless for people in remote areas, who must travel greater distances than people in Anchorage, Fairbanks, and Juneau to access basic reproductive health care. (adn.com)
In California, a constitutional amendment was previously introduced to protect the right to an abortion in the state constitution. (globalnews.ca)
In simplest terms, Roe created a constitutional right to abortion of the life of a living human fetus. (thepublicdiscourse.com)
The Court has never adopted any of these alternative theories for abortion as a constitutional right. (thepublicdiscourse.com)

Current laws in Pennsylvania state that medical abortions are legal before 24 weeks, and abortions can only be performed after 24 weeks if a mother's life is at risk. (thedp.com)

WHO's Global Strategy on Reproductive Health, adopted by the World Health Assembly in May 2004, noted: "As a preventable cause of maternal mortality and morbidity, unsafe abortion must be dealt with as part of the MDG on improving maternal health and other international development goals and targets. (wikipedia.org)
Expected to be the most pivotal abortion rights case since 1992, Whole Woman's Health v. Hellerstedt could very well set the course for reproductive health laws across the country for decades to come. (austinchronicle.com)
The decision now grants the states the power to regulate abortions and reproductive health care. (thedp.com)
The Guttmacher Institute , an organization that focuses on reproductive health, predicts that 26 states will fully ban abortions, including medication abortion. (findlaw.com)
The institute is a leading research and policy organization committed to the worldwide advancement of sexual and reproductive health and rights. (globalnews.ca)
This report is based on abortion data for 2004, provided voluntarily to CDC's National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion (NCCDPHP), Division of Reproductive Health. (cdc.gov)

self-administered misoprostol can safely induce an abortion. (bvsalud.org)

Activists hold hands outside the National Congress during a demonstration for the right to get abortions, in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Feb. 19, 2019. (theworld.org)
METHODS: We collected information from all facilities known to have provided abortion services in the United States in 2019 and 2020. (bvsalud.org)
Using Poisson and negative binomial regression, we compared the number of outbreaks and outbreak-associated illnesses between jurisdictions grouped by legal status of unpasteurised milk sale based on a May 2019 survey of state laws. (cdc.gov)

During a 2016 interview with Democracy Now, Campbell said more directly that "From my perspective, I don't think it's a good policy to outlaw abortion. (catholicnewsagency.com)
It would outlaw almost all abortions and some forms of birth control. (politico.com)
Back in the 1860s, physicians with the newly-formed American Medical Association worked to outlaw abortion in the U.S. (kpbs.org)
Several states have already passed trigger laws that would outlaw abortion if Roe were overturned," Adams continued. (queensledger.com)

According to WHO and the Guttmacher Institute, at least 22,800 women die annually as a result of complications of unsafe abortion, and between two million and seven million women each year survive unsafe abortion but sustain long-term damage or disease (incomplete abortion, infection, sepsis, bleeding, and injury to the internal organs, such as puncturing or tearing of the uterus). (wikipedia.org)
In 2003 (the most recent years for which data are available), 10 women died as a result of complications from known legal induced abortion. (cdc.gov)
[ 7 ] In the United States in 2010 (the most recent year for which data were available), 10 women reportedly died from complications of legal induced abortion. (medscape.com)
Deaths and complications from unsafe abortion are commonplace in many countries. (bvsalud.org)
Yet, investigations of clusters of abortion-related complications led to establishing a nation-wide abortion surveillance system. (bvsalud.org)
Complications of abortion : technical and managerial guidelines for prevention and treatment. (who.int)
Recommendations and advice are backed by extensive practical experience and rooted in the principle that emergency care for the complications of abortion should be available 24 hours a day in every health care system. (who.int)
In view of the need to prevent life-threatening complications, the book also establishes standards of safe abortion practice for use in those countries where abortion is permitted by law. (who.int)

The British Medical Bulletin reported in 2003 that 70,000 women a year die from unsafe abortion. (wikipedia.org)
1 in 3 women will have an abortion by age 45. (yesmagazine.org)
Courtesy of the National Organization for Women. (jwa.org)
Twenty-five million women of childbearing age now live in states where abortions are more difficult to get than before the ruling. (yahoo.com)
Some 61% of women undergoing abortion in the U.S. already have at least one child, and half of them have two or more children, according to the Guttmacher Institute. (austinchronicle.com)
more than 40% of women that have abortions are poor. (austinchronicle.com)
Women with rubella had a 50% chance of giving birth to babies with congenital rubella syndrome , a fact that increased public sympathy for illicit abortions. (huffpost.com)
Rising College first year Agustina Hufschmid, an international student from Argentina, fought alongside women for legal abortions in her home country for over a decade until it became legalized in December 2020 . (thedp.com)
At least until the courts rule on whether states can ban an FDA-approved drug, the women seeking abortions in those states face legal hurdles. (findlaw.com)
When it comes to mailing pills, telehealth providers in abortion-legal states can face legal consequences for mailing them to women in abortion-ban states. (findlaw.com)
Because it is unlikely that any telehealth provider would take that risk, it means that women in abortion-ban states might start looking to other countries as a source for the pills, like the European organization Aid Access. (findlaw.com)
Lucía's case is especially disturbing, but abortion-rights advocates say it's all too common for women in Argentina to be denied access to legal abortions. (theworld.org)
More restrictive interpretations of the law said that only women with disabilities who'd been raped could receive an abortion. (theworld.org)
There is a judicial hotline that women can call when a doctor refuses to comply, but it's unclear whether it's effective and if judges do intervene when women are denied a legal abortion. (theworld.org)
Still, the number of women seeking legal abortions is high. (theworld.org)
A recent study showed that five years after an abortion , 99 percent of women surveyed felt they have made the right decision and 84 percent of women expressed positive or no emotion with regard to their abortion after five years. (now.org)
To identify the barriers experienced by women to access safe and legal abortion care, we have to understand the legal picture. (privacyinternational.org)
This regulation requires women that intend to get an abortion because of rape obtain a letter from a doctor and a letter from the investigator, psychologist, and/or related expert about the event of the rape. (privacyinternational.org)
In 2013, the Arkansas Legislature made abortion illegal after 12 weeks, while North Dakota lawmakers prohibited it after six weeks - a point at which many women don't even know they're pregnant. (politico.com)
But abortion-rights advocates say the language, backed by a national "personhood movement," does nothing to discourage violence against women and only complicates such cases. (politico.com)
The CLC said there had been a 'spike' in demand for APR after the government changed abortion rules to allow the two pills needed for an abortion to be sent to women in the post. (christiantoday.com)
The organisation said 32 women who received APR treatment from Dr Kearney went on to give birth to healthy babies. (christiantoday.com)
We have seen many women immediately regret taking the first abortion pill,' she said. (christiantoday.com)
Abortion providers are putting women on a conveyer belt which means once they start the abortion process, they have to go through with it and are pressured to do so or left with no alternatives. (christiantoday.com)
The latter include wild assertions that abortion laws violate the Constitution's prohibition of slavery or interfere with the guarantee to women of the right to vote. (thepublicdiscourse.com)
MALI (Alternative Movement for Individual Freedoms) has invited the Dutch organization Women on Waves to come to Morocco with the abortion ship. (womenonwaves.org)
Unfortunately, most women are not aware of this safe abortion method that requires only 12 tablets of Artotec. (womenonwaves.org)
Abortion is illegal and taboo in Morocco, but approximately 600 to 800 women still have an abortion every day. (womenonwaves.org)
While wealthy women can afford safe abortion access, women of low socio-economic-status must often resort to unsafe methods that can result in morbidity and death. (womenonwaves.org)
Safe abortion hotline: 0633234333 (women can leave a message). (womenonwaves.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)
Gomperts and the women she prescribes pills for operate in something of a legal gray area. (vox.com)
CDC began abortion surveillance in 1969 to document the number and characteristics of women obtaining legal induced abortions. (cdc.gov)
The abortion rate was 16 per 1,000 women aged 15--44 years for 2004, the same since 2000. (cdc.gov)
She said that over the years, she's been invaded, harassed and received death threats for performing abortions - and that the one thing that kept her going was the women and patients she was able to assist. (queensledger.com)
In Ohio, a court has blocked enforcement of a ban on abortion after cardiac activity can be detected - generally about six weeks and before many women know they are pregnant. (morningsun.net)
Starting with the "bad old days" before 1967 when many women in the United States died from illegal abortions to a transitional time when abortions were legally available on the West and East coastand huge medical tourism led women to California or New York for abortions. (bvsalud.org)
Other chapters offer detailed guidance on the facilities, equipment and drugs needed for abortion care, on the training and supervision of staff, and on ways to overcome several obstacles that make it difficult for women in remote rural areas to receive timely care. (who.int)

The ban makes abortion illegal in virtually all cases - including cases of rape and incest - and doctors who perform abortions could face life in prison. (cnn.com)
The law also protects doctors or medical professionals who perform abortions from criminal prosecution. (cnn.com)
She says the bigger issue is that many doctors in this majority-Catholic country simply won't perform abortions. (theworld.org)
Unnecessary suffering and delay because you know, for example, doctors refused to perform abortions that are actually permitted by the law. (theworld.org)

These regulations often tried to control the details of how doctors provide abortions more strictly than other areas of medicine, she notes. (kpbs.org)

According to the Guttmacher Institute, 19 states have barred the use of telehealth for medication abortions, and four have barred the mailing of pills outright. (findlaw.com)
Still, in the states that are banning abortions, that means all abortions - including medication abortions - and Biden almost certainly won't be able to stop them. (findlaw.com)
There were 492,210 medication abortions in 2020, a 45% increase from 2017. (bvsalud.org)

It also states "access to safe abortion improves women's health, and vice versa, as documented in Romania during the regime of President Nicolae Ceaușescu" and "legalisation of abortion on request is a necessary but insufficient step toward improving women's health" citing that in some countries, such as India, where abortion has been legal for decades, access to competent care remains restricted because of other barriers. (wikipedia.org)
Therefore, access to safe abortion is fundamentally an issue of social justice. (womenonwaves.org)

Another of our goals is to build our member funds toward being sustainable organizations with strong leaders which looks like ensuring member organizations are high-functioning, sustainable, and delivering consistent and compassionate services & building individual leaders as a base ready to assist, organize, and advocate for abortion access. (guidestar.org)
The group, a major provider of abortion and other health services and also an advocate for abortion access, told its staff on Monday, May 22, 2023, that layoff notices would go out in June and provided The Associated Press with an overview Tuesday. (morningsun.net)
The group, a major provider of abortion and other health services and also an advocate for abortion access, told its staff on Monday that layoff notices would go out in June. (morningsun.net)

The abortion complication rate for all healthcare sources came to 2.1% (n = 1156) for medication abortion, 1.3% (n = 438) for first-trimester aspiration abortion, and 1.5% (n = 130) for second-trimester or later abortions. (medscape.com)
And CDC research documented the safety of D & C for second trimester abortions. (bvsalud.org)

Similar laws - which abortion-rights advocates call "targeted regulation of abortion providers," or TRAP laws - are in place in 24 states . (kpbs.org)
A more technical provision is in the Ministry of Health Regulation No. 3/2016 on the Abortion Services. (privacyinternational.org)
The Ministry of Health Regulation also says that a person who obtains an abortion cannot get the service from the same doctors for a different reason, except if there are not enough doctors in the area. (privacyinternational.org)
The public became increasingly concerned about abortion providers being "out of control" and in need of greater regulation, Yoest said, particularly after the trial and conviction of Philadelphia abortion doctor Kermit Gosnell. (politico.com)
Abortion, doctors, and the law : some aspects of the legal regulation of abortion in England from 1803 to 1982 / John Keown. (who.int)

And that means continued legal battles and on-the-ground activism for advocates on both sides of the abortion debate. (kpbs.org)
Abortion rights advocates reject this understanding of Stanton, Anthony and other early American women's rights activists' views on abortion. (talkingpointsmemo.com)
Developments are certain in state legislatures, the courts and even at the ballot box, a triple front that has many abortion-rights advocates braced. (politico.com)
Their underlying intent, abortion-rights advocates charge, is to systematically end abortions. (politico.com)
Local elected officials, gender justice groups, and other community advocates followed the lead of other protesters across the country when they gathered at the steps of Queens Borough Hall to fight for abortion rights. (queensledger.com)

An organization that seeks to inspire American Catholics to live out their faith in the public square has launched a website intended to "unmask" President Joe Biden, a man its leader says is "remaking America from the ground up. (breitbart.com)
Abortions are legal in the United States of America. (foxbusiness.com)
Despite widespread global use of abortion it has very limited legal and medical acceptability in Latin America. (bvsalud.org)
Second, the internationally-renowned obstetrician-gynecologist, Dr. David Grimes has published an excellent book applying epidemiologic methods to abortion: Every third Woman in America: How Legal Abortion Transformed Our Nation 2 .This book may be downloaded for 99 cents! (bvsalud.org)
Today an estimated every third woman in America will have at least one legal abortion. (bvsalud.org)

Abortion policies in Oregon are the most protective, according to the Guttmacher Institute. (globalnews.ca)

But new statistics suggest some Kansans are turning to self-managed abortion, which involves taking abortion-inducing medication without a doctor's guidance. (kmuw.org)

In 1969, the 22-year-old McCorvey became pregnant for the third time and wanted to have an abortion. (wtop.com)
Because only physicians can provide abortion, patients who learn they are pregnant when a physician is not at one of our health centers must return for a second visit to have an abortion. (adn.com)
From the nation's founding through the early 1800s, pre-quickening abortions - that is, abortions before a pregnant person feels fetal movement - were fairly common and even advertised. (talkingpointsmemo.com)
APR involves administering progesterone to a pregnant woman who has taken the first abortion pill, mifepristone, but changed her mind about proceeding with the abortion by taking the second pill. (christiantoday.com)

Minnesota and North Carolina are also expected to keep abortion legal. (globalnews.ca)

Polling stations are open across Ireland where voters will decide whether or not to abolish the eighth amendment which makes abortions illegal in the country, except for circumstances where the mother's life is at risk. (newsweek.com)
Legal experts told The Nation it's not illegal. (thenation.com)
And abortion is illegal in most of the South American countries where Zika is prevalent. (huffpost.com)
Abortion is illegal in Brazil except when the mother's life is in danger or in cases of rape. (huffpost.com)
But even though it is illegal, the reality of abortion is different for rich and poor Brazilians, said Sonia Correa, of the website Sexuality Policy Watch , to PRI.org . (huffpost.com)
Liñan says illegal abortions are also common, even though they carry a prison term of four years. (theworld.org)
When the Republicans in South Dakota passed a draconian abortion ban, making all abortions illegal except those that would save the life of the mother, McCain said he "would take appropriate steps under state law to ensure that the exceptions of rape, incest of life of the mother were included. (issues2000.org)
Abortion is now illegal in Mississippi. (reproductiverights.org)
While there is much ongoing confusion about the states where abortion is legal, where it is illegal, and where it has been further restricted, there is one thing we can be absolutely sure of: The status of abortion isn't settled! (womensenews.org)
You get this is seen as political on your part because you took on an organization that isn't doing anything illegal, right? (foxbusiness.com)
No death was associated with known illegal abortion. (cdc.gov)
I was only 25 years old, and one day abortion was illegal, a sin, and a crime. (queensledger.com)
Septic abortion remains a primary cause of maternal mortality in the developing world, mostly as a result of illegal abortions. (medscape.com)
Then CDC began investigating all reported abortion-related deaths to determine whether the death was attributed to abortion, whether the abortion was spontaneous or induced, and if induced, whether it was a legal or illegal abortion. (bvsalud.org)

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)

Yet another investigation documented the rapid decline in maternal mortality from abortion after decriminalization. (bvsalud.org)
The American Public Health Association urges medical and public health schools, residency training programs and midwifery and physician assistant programs to teach courses on abortion, and Drs. Eva Lathrop, Emory Medical School Obstetrician/Gynecologist, AndreeaCreanga (CDC epidemiologist) and I have, for the past six years, taught a course on the Global Elimination of Maternal Mortality from Abortion (GEMMA) 4 . (bvsalud.org)

They seek to mitigate a broken political system and a national philanthropic abortion funding strategy that has inadvertently created compounding barriers and replicated the bureaucracy people experience when trying to access health care systems. (guidestar.org)
Rooted in the wisdom and expertise of local abortion funds, this new national direct abortion funding strategy will distribute money directly to abortion funds so they can disperse it according to the needs of callers in their own communities and support those traveling to or from their home states to get the care they need. (guidestar.org)
02.22.23 (PRESS RELEASE) Today, six leading reproductive rights organizations announced the Abortion Defense Network , a new program to connect people facing legal threats related to abortion care with trusted attorneys who provide legal advice and representation in civil and criminal proceedings. (lawyeringproject.org)
Anyone in the U.S. working to provide or support abortion care can seek legal assistance from the Abortion Defense Network. (lawyeringproject.org)
Abortion providers, doctors, and even family members of people seeking abortion care are unsure what they might be prosecuted for. (lawyeringproject.org)
On July 8, President Joe Biden signed an executive order directing Secretary of Health and Human Services Xavier Becerra to prepare a report within the next 30 days on how to "protect and expand access to abortion care, including medication abortion. (findlaw.com)
This state law arbitrarily limits who can provide abortion to physicians, even though advanced practice clinicians, like advanced practice registered nurses, physician assistants, and certified nurse-midwives, are qualified and able to safely provide this care. (adn.com)
Leading health care organizations, including the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, recommend allowing advanced practice clinicians to provide abortion. (adn.com)
But Alaska's legal and logistical barriers, including the APC ban, contribute to delays in care. (adn.com)
Attacks on abortion care keep coming. (now.org)
1. What are the barriers to access safe and legal abortion care? (privacyinternational.org)
Abortion is health care, and no matter who you are or where you come from, Oregon doesn't turn away anymore seeking health care," Oregon governor Kate Brown said in a joint statement with the governors of California and Washington after the ruling Friday. (globalnews.ca)
NAF provide callers with accurate information, confidential consultation, options counseling, and referrals to providers of quality abortion care. (womensenews.org)
Abortion training is considered essential health care and a core competency for physicians in obstetrics and gynecology, or OB-GYN, residency programs. (publicintegrity.org)
Since first publication of this guidance in 2003, a considerable amount of new data have been produced and published, relating to epidemiological, clinical, service delivery, legal and human rights aspects of providing safe abortion care. (bvsalud.org)
A chapter on planning is followed by three chapters outlining the clinical elements of emergency abortion care. (who.int)

The battle over abortion rights in Missouri has drawn national attention in recent weeks, after a federal court ruled that two state laws limiting abortion access should stand. (kpbs.org)

This was a first of its kind bill that codified the right to an abortion into law. (globalnews.ca)
If the right to an abortion does get overturned, Aid Access staff say they feel confident their services could continue, in the same way they've been able to operate in red states that have barred other abortion groups. (vox.com)

NNAF helps to develop the skills, strategies, and infrastructure of member organizations in order to build and engage a base of more than 15,000 volunteer leaders and tens of thousands of engaged and connected activists who are contributing to advancing a shared agenda around racial, economic, and reproductive justice. (guidestar.org)
In front of the Atlas sculpture (1937, by Lee Lawrie) at Rockefeller Center, activists hold a series of signs that read 'Legalize Abortion' during a demonstration, New York, New York, March 1968. (talkingpointsmemo.com)
There's an ongoing dispute about whether famous women's activists of the 1800s such as Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony opposed abortion. (talkingpointsmemo.com)
Interviews with GOP voters and activists over the past several months suggest a split between people satisfied with Trump's record during his term and others who want Trump to endorse a national abortion ban. (pressenterpriseonline.com)

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