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New Mexico is a go-to state for women seeking abortions. A new court ruling helps it stay that way
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New Mexico is a go-to state for women seeking abortions. A new court ruling helps it stay that way

Associated Press  

SANTA FE, N.M. — The New Mexico Supreme Court on Thursday struck down abortion restrictions by conservative cities and counties at the request of the state attorney general. Attorneys representing New Mexico’s Lea and Roosevelt counties and the cities of Hobbs and Clovis had argued in court that local abortion ordinances can’t be struck down under provisions within the “anti-vice” …

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Texas Medical Board director retires after uproar over his Planned Parenthood employment
1 day, 17 hours ago

Texas Medical Board director retires after uproar over his Planned Parenthood employment

Associated Press  

The medical director of the Texas Medical Board has retired, less than two weeks after conservative lawmakers publicized his employment with a Planned Parenthood laboratory. According to his resumé, Bredt also worked at Planned Parenthood South Texas Laboratory since 2011, as well as Genics Laboratory in Las Vegas and San Antonio since 2022. In a letter sent to members of …

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Orca mom Tahlequah is carrying a dead calf for the second time, raising concerns among scientists
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Orca mom Tahlequah is carrying a dead calf for the second time, raising concerns among scientists

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Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Deep mourning by an orca mother Some female orcas have been known to carry their deceased offspring, but the time and distance Tahlequah has carried her two dead calves is unusual, according to experts. Candice Emmons/NOAA Fisheries This act of grief raises concerns among researchers, including Weiss and Hanson, for its physical …

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Virginia’s special elections test party strength before 2025 governor’s race
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Virginia’s special elections test party strength before 2025 governor’s race

Raw Story  

With Republicans poised to take control of Congress and the White House, Tuesday’s special elections in Virginia’s General Assembly mark the first test of sentiment since the Nov. 5 general election. The contests could either reinforce Democratic majorities in the state legislature or signal a shift toward GOP momentum ahead of the state’s high profile 2025 gubernatorial race. In the …

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UK faces sharp rise in abortion convictions
1 week, 5 days ago

UK faces sharp rise in abortion convictions

The Independent  

Sign up for the Independent Women email for the latest news, opinion and features Get the Independent Women email for free Get the Independent Women email for free SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Data from leading UK abortion provider British Pregnancy Advisory Service shows three women were convicted of …

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Abortions are up in the US. The data paints a complicated picture
1 week, 6 days ago

Abortions are up in the US. The data paints a complicated picture

Associated Press  

Abortion has become slightly more common despite bans or deep restrictions in most Republican-controlled states, and the legal and political fights over its future are not over yet. Share Share Copy Link copied Email Facebook X Reddit LinkedIn Pinterest Flipboard Print Overturning Roe and enforcing abortion bans has changed how woman obtain abortions in the U.S. “Abortion bans don’t actually …

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Abortions are up in U.S., with women turning to pills and travel
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Abortions are up in U.S., with women turning to pills and travel

LA Times  

Two women at a watch party in Kansas City, Mo., react after an abortion rights amendment to the Missouri Constitution was passed on Nov. 5. It’s now been two and a half years since the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe vs. Wade and opened the door for states to implement bans. Here’s a look at data on where things stand: …

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From AI to abortion: Key State laws taking effect across America in 2025
2 weeks ago

From AI to abortion: Key State laws taking effect across America in 2025

India Today  

In 2025, new US state laws will come into effect which will address Artificial intelligence issue, abortion rights, gun control, minimum wage hikes, and medical marijuana legalization. These laws signify significant changes in social policies, economic measures, and individual rights, reshaping the landscape across the country. Here are the key takeaways from the new state laws taking effect in 2025: …

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Letters to the Editor: Please, President-elect Trump, don’t cut funding to the U.N. Population Fund
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Letters to the Editor: Please, President-elect Trump, don’t cut funding to the U.N. Population Fund

LA Times  

To the editor: In 2002, I read the State of World Population report of the United Nations Population Fund, or UNFPA, which named Nigeria as having a total fertility rate of more than seven children per woman. Those seven children per woman, if they’ve all survived, are now young adults, and probably some are in the stampedes for food given …

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Streeting urged to investigate abortion pills by post after woman is poisoned in ‘grotesque crime’
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Streeting urged to investigate abortion pills by post after woman is poisoned in ‘grotesque crime’

The Independent  

Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email Get our free View from Westminster email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy The health secretary has been warned that a recent conviction over …

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A Missouri judge says the state’s abortion ban isn’t enforceable, ensuring legal abortions
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A Missouri judge says the state’s abortion ban isn’t enforceable, ensuring legal abortions

The Independent  

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy A judge ruled Friday that …

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A judge says Missouri’s abortion ban isn’t enforceable, but there’s no start date for abortions
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A judge says Missouri’s abortion ban isn’t enforceable, but there’s no start date for abortions

Associated Press  

— A judge ruled Friday that Missouri’s near-total abortion ban is unenforceable under a new constitutional amendment, though Planned Parenthood said the decision is still not sufficient for it to resume providing abortions in the state. Jackson County Circuit Court Judge Jerri Zhang said the abortion ban “is directly at odds” with a constitutional amendment creating a right to abortion …

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Regional court faults El Salvador for denying a mother’s access to abortion, violating her rights
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Regional court faults El Salvador for denying a mother’s access to abortion, violating her rights

Associated Press  

SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador — The Inter-American Court of Human Rights on Friday found El Salvador’s government responsible for violating the rights of a young Salvadoran woman who was denied an abortion of her anencephalic fetus in a country with a total ban on abortions. The Costa Rica-based regional court said the government was responsible for obstetric violence, health violations …

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Minneapolis softens law on obstructing abortion clinics in response to free-speech lawsuit
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Minneapolis softens law on obstructing abortion clinics in response to free-speech lawsuit

Associated Press  

MINNEAPOLIS — Minneapolis has softened an ordinance that prohibited the obstruction of entrances and driveways to abortion clinics after anti-abortion activists sued to challenge it on free-speech grounds. Pro-Life Action Ministries sends “sidewalk counselors” to Planned Parenthood clinics in Minneapolis, St. Paul and elsewhere to try to dissuade people from having abortions. Gibson said their most immediate concern when they …

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Supreme Court to weigh state moves to cut off Medicaid funding to Planned Parenthood
3 weeks, 2 days ago

Supreme Court to weigh state moves to cut off Medicaid funding to Planned Parenthood

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court said Wednesday it will consider South Carolina’s move to cut off Medicaid funding to Planned Parenthood, the latest abortion-related case since the justices overturned Roe v. Wade. Planned Parenthood has previously said it gets less than $100,000 in South Carolina, one of many conservative-leaning states that sought to halt or reduce public funding for the …

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Supreme Court takes up South Carolina's effort to defund Planned Parenthood
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Supreme Court takes up South Carolina's effort to defund Planned Parenthood

NPR  

Supreme Court takes up South Carolina's effort to defund Planned Parenthood toggle caption Kent Nishimura/Getty Images The Supreme Court on Wednesday said it will review South Carolina's effort to disqualify Planned Parenthood from providing non-abortion services to Medicaid patients. The court will restrict itself to a single question in the case: The justices agreed to take up the question of …

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Kansas sees staggering rise in abortions as nearby states ban them
3 weeks, 6 days ago

Kansas sees staggering rise in abortions as nearby states ban them

Raw Story  

TOPEKA — Demand for abortion in Kansas skyrocketed by 58% during 2023 in response to near-total bans on the procedure in Missouri and Oklahoma and strict limits in other Midwest states. The U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to strike down Roe v. Wade and the 2019 Kansas Supreme Court’s opinion that women had a state constitutional right to terminate a pregnancy …

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Coast Guard commander miscarried and nearly died after being denied care
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Coast Guard commander miscarried and nearly died after being denied care

Raw Story  

By Erin Edwards for ProPublica and Robin Fields ProPublica is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative newsroom. “It just feels very unnecessary.” Since the Dobbs decision, abortion care for service members seems to be coming under heightened scrutiny, said retired Rear Adm. Dana Thomas, who was until recently the Coast Guard’s chief medical officer and advocated for Nakagawa. “There have not been …

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South Carolina GOP bill would allow death penalty as punishment for abortions: report
4 weeks, 1 day ago

South Carolina GOP bill would allow death penalty as punishment for abortions: report

Raw Story  

A proposed South Carolina bill would extend homicide laws – including the death penalty – to cases of abortion. The "South Carolina Prenatal Equal Protection Act" was pre-filed in the South Carolina Legislature last week by an ultra-conservative group of Republican lawmakers, HuffPost reported Thursday. "If passed, this bill would effectively enact a total abortion ban because it considers all …

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Hardline activist who raised the idea of jailing women for abortions gets top policy job in Trump administration
4 weeks, 2 days ago

Hardline activist who raised the idea of jailing women for abortions gets top policy job in Trump administration

CNN  

CNN — President-elect Donald Trump has chosen Ed Martin, a hardline, socially conservative activist and commentator, to serve as the next chief of staff at the Office of Management and Budget. As CNN first reported in July, Martin has publicly advocated for a national abortion ban without exceptions for rape or incest and has raised imposing criminal penalties on women …

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Family Planning report reveals a third of NSW local government areas had no doctors providing medical abortions in 2022
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Family Planning report reveals a third of NSW local government areas had no doctors providing medical abortions in 2022

ABC  

When Charlotte asked a doctor in the New South Wales southern highlands for a medical abortion, he ignored her request, gave her a blood test referral and ushered her out of the room. Data reveals abortion deserts Family Planning Australia's report analysed data from the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme to track medical abortions across the state from 2018 to 2022. Family …

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Idaho’s strict abortion ban faces scrutiny in federal appeals court hearing
1 month ago

Idaho’s strict abortion ban faces scrutiny in federal appeals court hearing

Associated Press  

PASADENA, Calif. — A federal appeals court scrutinized the impact of Idaho’s strict abortion ban on emergency medical care on Tuesday, weighing whether the ban criminalizing abortions should be enforceable in life- and health-threatening situations. Circuit Court of Appeals panel of 11 judges to urgently lift the injunction preventing the state from enforcing its abortion ban in emergency room settings, …

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Abortion access in Missouri is in limbo despite November's constitutional amendment
1 month ago

Abortion access in Missouri is in limbo despite November's constitutional amendment

NPR  

Abortion access in Missouri is in limbo despite November's constitutional amendment Even though a new constitutional amendment is in effect in Missouri, a Planned Parenthood clinic in St. Louis can't provide abortions. That was before the U.S. Supreme Court's Dobbs decision overturned the federal protections that made abortion legal and accessible across the U.S. and before the state's near-total ban. …

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Opinion: How Democrats could use the lame duck to save medication abortions
1 month, 1 week ago

Opinion: How Democrats could use the lame duck to save medication abortions

LA Times  

Conservatives have threatened to use an 1873 to prevent the shipping of mifepristone and misoprostol, drugs typically used to bring about a medical abortion. Before Democrats lose the White House and the Senate, they should push through legislation to repeal the Comstock Act, which could be used to prevent legal medically induced abortions everywhere in the United States. But Jonathan …

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