'Bodies are piling up': Reporter finds GOP-led states are hiding abortion ban death toll
2 weeks, 5 days ago

'Bodies are piling up': Reporter finds GOP-led states are hiding abortion ban death toll

Raw Story  

Some Republican-led states that passed near-total abortion bans have mysteriously stopped collecting statistics on maternal mortality over the last couple of years — and some observers suspect it's not a coincidence, wrote Susan Rinkunas for MSNBC. "An analysis published in September by the Gender Equity Policy Institute found that, from 2019 to 2022, the rate of maternal deaths in Texas increased by 56%, compared with 11% nationwide," wrote Rinkunas. Investigative reporters have "found at least five women who’ve died under abortion bans: three in Texas and two in Georgia," noted Rinkunas. The issue, she continued, is that the whole point of these committees is to identify problems in medical care for expectant mothers — and these moves create the impression that states like Texas and Georgia would rather suppress those efforts than risk the data showing that abortion bans are killing people.

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The CDC failed in promise to get states to track deaths linked to abortion bans
3 days, 4 hours ago

The CDC failed in promise to get states to track deaths linked to abortion bans

Raw Story  

After the Supreme Court overturned the constitutional right to abortion in 2022, President Joe Biden issued an executive order tasking the federal government with assessing the “devastating implications for women’s health“ of new state abortion bans. “The committee must follow national guidelines in maternal mortality review committee death investigations,” said a spokesperson for Oklahoma’s health department, which oversees the committee …

Arizona governor urges the state to stop collecting abortion data, citing patient privacy
4 days, 20 hours ago

Arizona governor urges the state to stop collecting abortion data, citing patient privacy

Associated Press  

Katie Hobbs is calling for legislators to repeal the state law that requires an annual abortion report, saying that it infringes on patients’ privacy, which echoes other Democratic officials’ push to reduce or eliminate such requirements. “It’s really worth thinking carefully about the risk and the benefit of collecting data in this new environment,” said Isaac Maddow-Zimet, a researcher at …

Texas won't review maternal deaths post-Dobbs: report
3 weeks, 5 days ago

Texas won't review maternal deaths post-Dobbs: report

Salon  

A Texas committee that is meant to review pregnancy-related deaths in the state won’t review cases from 2022 and 2023, the Washington Post reported. Related How abortion funds are preparing for another Trump presidency According to the report, Texas Maternal Mortality and Morbidity Review Committee members said in September the change was made to “be more contemporary.” The move has …

'Worried': Experts concerned as Texas board declines to investigate abortion ban deaths
3 weeks, 6 days ago

'Worried': Experts concerned as Texas board declines to investigate abortion ban deaths

Raw Story  

The Texas Maternal Mortality and Morbidity Review Committee revealed this week that it will not be reviewing any cases that occurred over the last two years — which just happen to be the years when Texas's strict anti-abortion law went into effect. The Washington Post reports that the move by the committee is "leaving any potential deaths related to abortion …

Third woman dies under Texas’ abortion ban as doctors use riskier miscarriage treatments
4 weeks ago

Third woman dies under Texas’ abortion ban as doctors use riskier miscarriage treatments

Raw Story  

Wrapping his wife in a blanket as she mourned the loss of her pregnancy at 11 weeks, Hope Ngumezi wondered why no obstetrician was coming to see her. But when Dr. Andrew Ryan Davis, the obstetrician on duty, finally arrived, he said it was the hospital’s “routine” to give a drug called misoprostol to help the body pass the tissue, …

Abortion opponents prepare to undermine just-passed ballot measures
1 month, 1 week ago

Abortion opponents prepare to undermine just-passed ballot measures

Politico  

While President-elect Donald Trump and other Republicans campaigned on a promise to leave abortion policy to the states, Students for Life is lobbying allies on Capitol Hill to ban telehealth prescriptions of abortion pills and slash funding for colleges and universities that provide abortion pills through student health centers. “The federal government has a sacred duty to protect the right …

Women in states with bans are getting abortions at similar rates as under Roe, report says
2 months ago

Women in states with bans are getting abortions at similar rates as under Roe, report says

LA Times  

Mifepristone is one of two pills used in medication abortions. Women living in states with abortion bans obtained the procedure in the second half of 2023 at about the same rate as before the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe vs. Wade, according to a report released Tuesday. They increasingly used telehealth, the report found, as medical providers in states with …

The deaths from abortion bans you won't hear about
2 months ago

The deaths from abortion bans you won't hear about

Salon  

Last month, ProPublica published two stories of women who died from abortion bans after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in 2022 via the Dobbs decision. The state committee that reviewed her case was also “preventable.” Related A leading abortion provider on why restrictive laws are taking us back to the Dark Ages Pro-abortion activists warned before and after …

Column: As 10 states prepare to vote on abortion rights, Texas shows that abortion bans kill women
2 months, 3 weeks ago

Column: As 10 states prepare to vote on abortion rights, Texas shows that abortion bans kill women

LA Times  

Rob Bonta, left, at a news conference Monday with Anna Nusslock, who says she was illegally denied an emergency abortion at a Catholic hospital in Eureka this year. — Nancy L. Cohen, president, Gender Equity Policy Institute There can no longer be any doubt that the abortion bans enacted in more than 20 states threaten women’s health. The bellwether state …

US abortion numbers rise slightly since Roe was overturned, study finds
4 months, 2 weeks ago

US abortion numbers rise slightly since Roe was overturned, study finds

Associated Press  

The number of women getting abortions in the U.S. actually went up in the first three months of 2024 compared with before the Supreme Court overturned Roe v Wade, a report released Wednesday found, reflecting the lengths that Democratic-controlled states went to expand access. AP AUDIO: US abortion numbers have risen slightly since Roe was overturned, study finds AP correspondent …

Infant mortality rate rose 8% in wake of Texas abortion ban, study shows
5 months, 2 weeks ago

Infant mortality rate rose 8% in wake of Texas abortion ban, study shows

LA Times  

Opponents of Texas’ abortion ban rally outside the state Capitol in Austin in 2022. A study released by Johns Hopkins University shows the infant death rate in Texas rose in the wake of the ban. In the wake of Texas’ abortion ban, the state’s infant death rate increased and more died of birth defects, a study published by Johns Hopkins …

Infant deaths spiked 13% in Texas following law restricting abortion, study finds
5 months, 3 weeks ago

Infant deaths spiked 13% in Texas following law restricting abortion, study finds

Salon  

A restrictive abortion law in Texas has been linked to in a sharp uptick in infant mortality that other states did not experience, a new study has found. Pediatric heath researchers from John Hopkins University report the number of newborn babies dying in Texas has increased by approximately 13% since the state's near-total abortion ban went into effect, according to …

Project 2025 shows Trump and GOP are "obsessed" with abortion and "controlling our bodies": expert
5 months, 3 weeks ago

Project 2025 shows Trump and GOP are "obsessed" with abortion and "controlling our bodies": expert

Salon  

Since Supreme Court justices appointed by Donald Trump helped overturn Roe v. Wade, more than a dozen states have passed total bans on abortion — and twice that number have imposed other limits on reproductive freedom, according to the the Guttmacher Institute. What is at stake if Donald Trump wins the 2024 election versus Joe Biden, specifically for abortion rights …

Texas adopts guidance for how doctors should interpret abortion ban
6 months ago

Texas adopts guidance for how doctors should interpret abortion ban

Raw Story  

"Texas adopts guidance for how doctors should interpret abortion ban" was first published by The Texas Tribune, a nonprofit, nonpartisan media organization that informs Texans — and engages with them — about public policy, politics, government and statewide issues. The Texas Medical Board on Friday adopted guidance for how doctors should interpret the state’s new abortion laws, reducing paperwork requirements …

"I wasn't dead enough for an abortion": Texas mom blames Trump for almost losing her life
6 months, 2 weeks ago

"I wasn't dead enough for an abortion": Texas mom blames Trump for almost losing her life

Salon  

Lauren Miller was pregnant with twins when she landed in the emergency room after 36 straight hours of vomiting. Related How abortion bans are impacting pregnant patients across the country "As my medical providers tried to counsel me on my options," Miller said, "they would just stop mid-sentence, looking for the right words. Last week, the state's all-Republican Supreme Court …

Texas Supreme Court rejects challenge from women denied abortion during emergencies
6 months, 3 weeks ago

Texas Supreme Court rejects challenge from women denied abortion during emergencies

The Independent  

The latest headlines from our reporters across the US sent straight to your inbox each weekday Your briefing on the latest headlines from across the US Please enter a valid email address Please enter a valid email address SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Texas Supreme Court justices then overturned …

Texas Supreme Court rejects challenge to state’s abortion law over medical exceptions
6 months, 3 weeks ago

Texas Supreme Court rejects challenge to state’s abortion law over medical exceptions

LA Times  

Amanda Zurawski had been told that she had a condition that meant her fetus would not survive. The Texas Supreme Court on Friday rejected a challenge to one of the most restrictive abortion bans in the U.S. following a lawsuit by women who had serious pregnancy complications. The unanimous ruling from the court, whose nine justices are all elected Republicans, …

Texas Supreme Court rules against women who say their lives were endangered by state abortion ban
6 months, 3 weeks ago

Texas Supreme Court rules against women who say their lives were endangered by state abortion ban

Salon  

All nine Republican justices of the Texas Supreme Court rejected a challenge to the state's strict abortion ban on Friday that was brought by a group of women who said their lives were put at risk when they suffered serious pregnancy complications and could not access the necessary medical care. They claimed this happened because the state's abortion law isn’t …

Texas, Idaho abortion bans test against federal emergency medicine rule
8 months ago

Texas, Idaho abortion bans test against federal emergency medicine rule

Raw Story  

"Texas, Idaho abortion bans test against federal emergency medicine rule" was first published by The Texas Tribune, a nonprofit, nonpartisan media organization that informs Texans — and engages with them — about public policy, politics, government and statewide issues. Texas, meanwhile, has sued the Biden administration, saying it's using EMTALA as an end-run around state abortion bans to “mandate that …

Arizona just revived an 1864 law criminalizing abortion. Here’s what’s happening in other states
8 months, 1 week ago

Arizona just revived an 1864 law criminalizing abortion. Here’s what’s happening in other states

Associated Press  

Developments this week in Arizona underscored something that was already apparent about the 2024 elections in the United States: Abortion is going to loom large as an issue in state and federal elections — including the presidential race — and directly in the form of referendums in some states. An Arizona Supreme Court ruling that allows enforcement of a ban …

Texas medical panel won’t provide list of exceptions to abortion ban
9 months ago

Texas medical panel won’t provide list of exceptions to abortion ban

Associated Press  

DALLAS — A Texas medical panel on Friday rebuffed calls to list specific exceptions to one of the most restrictive abortions bans in the U.S., which physicians say is dangerously unclear and has forced women with serious pregnancy complications to leave the state. The board’s proposed guidelines on exceptions to Texas’ ban on abortion from the moment of fertilization, issued …

Texas Abortion Bans & Gun Laws Fuel Deadly War On Women
9 months, 3 weeks ago

Texas Abortion Bans & Gun Laws Fuel Deadly War On Women

Huff Post  

Gabriela Gonzalez had been dating her abusive boyfriend, Harold Thompson, for four months in the spring of 2023 when she got pregnant. HuffPost spoke with a dozen people working in advocacy services in the state ― ranging from abortion funds and family attorneys, to shelter directors and hotline staff ― who believe that the state’s abortion bans coupled with its …

Anti-abortion activists brace for challenges ahead as they gather for annual March for Life
11 months ago

Anti-abortion activists brace for challenges ahead as they gather for annual March for Life

Associated Press  

A year ago, anti-abortion activists from across the U.S. gathered for their annual March for Life with reason to celebrate: It was their first march since the Supreme Court, seven months earlier, had overturned the nationwide right to abortion. The key consequence of the June 2022 Supreme Court’s Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization ruling was to return decision-making on …

'Outrageous': Biden on woman forced to leave Texas for abortion
1 year ago

'Outrageous': Biden on woman forced to leave Texas for abortion

Hindustan Times  

US President Joe Biden said it was "outrageous" that a woman was forced to leave Texas to seek an emergency abortion, after the state's courts said she could not terminate her risky pregnancy. On Monday Cox left the state to seek an emergency abortion -- and hours later the Texas Supreme Court issued an order siding with the government and …

Opinion: A Texas case shows how cruel and illusory the latest abortion-ban exceptions can be
1 year ago

Opinion: A Texas case shows how cruel and illusory the latest abortion-ban exceptions can be

LA Times  

Kate Cox, whose fetus had a fatal diagnosis, had to leave her home state of Texas in order to obtain an abortion. A historic drama playing out in Texas ended Tuesday when the Texas Supreme Court held that Kate Cox, a woman 20 weeks pregnant with a fetus with trisomy 18, an almost always fatal abnormality, could not legally end …

Opinion: This Texas woman is exposing a chilling truth about abortion law
1 year ago

Opinion: This Texas woman is exposing a chilling truth about abortion law

CNN  

Editor’s Note: Mary Ziegler is the Martin Luther King Jr. But given the popularity of abortion rights — and the obvious tragedy faced by women like Cox — why are states like Texas fighting so hard to defend their narrow exceptions? Conceding that a woman like Cox is right could threaten to send much else about criminal abortion laws toppling …

A pregnant Texas woman is asking a court to let her have an abortion under exceptions to state's ban
1 year ago

A pregnant Texas woman is asking a court to let her have an abortion under exceptions to state's ban

Associated Press  

AUSTIN, Texas — A pregnant Texas woman whose fetus has a fatal diagnosis asked a court Tuesday to let her have an abortion, bringing what her attorneys say is the first lawsuit of its kind in the U.S. since Roe v. Wade was overturned last year. Although Texas allows exceptions, doctors and women have argued in court this year that …

Abortions in the US rose slightly overall after post-Roe restrictions were put in place, study finds
1 year, 1 month ago

Abortions in the US rose slightly overall after post-Roe restrictions were put in place, study finds

Associated Press  

The total number of abortions provided in the U.S. rose slightly in the 12 months after states began implementing bans on them throughout pregnancy, a new survey finds. The changes reflect major shifts after the U.S. Supreme Court in June 2022 handed down its Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization ruling, overturning Roe v. Wade, the 1973 ruling that had …

Texas county makes it illegal to transport women across state lines for abortions
1 year, 1 month ago

Texas county makes it illegal to transport women across state lines for abortions

The Telegraph  

A Texas county has passed a law outlawing transporting women across state lines to have an abortion. The proposed Amarillo ban would apply to all roads which run through the city of 200,000 leading to New Mexico and Colorado, another state where abortion remains legal. “We see this as a prohibition on abortion trafficking.” Pro-life and anti-abortion battleground Travel bans …

Texas judge sides with women after harrowing testimony over anti-abortion law
1 year, 4 months ago

Texas judge sides with women after harrowing testimony over anti-abortion law

The Independent  

Sign up for the daily Inside Washington email for exclusive US coverage and analysis sent to your inbox Get our free Inside Washington email Please enter a valid email address Please enter a valid email address SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. We’re back to relying on doctors and not …

Texas women denied abortions give emotional accounts in court, ask judge to clarify law
1 year, 5 months ago

Texas women denied abortions give emotional accounts in court, ask judge to clarify law

Associated Press  

AUSTIN, Texas — For the first time since Roe v. Wade was overturned, Texas women who were denied abortions testified in a court Wednesday of carrying babies they knew would not survive and continuing pregnancies that put their health in worsening danger. “I survived sepsis and I don’t think today was much less traumatic than that,” said Amanda Zurawksi, one …

Texas women denied abortions give emotional accounts in court, ask judge to clarify law
1 year, 5 months ago

Texas women denied abortions give emotional accounts in court, ask judge to clarify law

LA Times  

Amanda Zurawski, one of the plaintiffs suing Texas, speaks in front of the state Capitol in Austin. For the first time since Roe vs. Wade was overturned, Texas women who were denied abortions testified in court of carrying babies they knew would not survive and continuing pregnancies that put their health in worsening danger. “I survived sepsis, and I don’t …

Nearly 10,000 more babies born in nine months under Texas’ restrictive abortion law
1 year, 5 months ago

Nearly 10,000 more babies born in nine months under Texas’ restrictive abortion law

Raw Story  

Close to 10,000 additional babies were born over a nine-month period after Texas banned most abortions after about six weeks of pregnancy, a new analysis from Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health shows. “Although our study doesn’t detail why these extra births occurred, our findings strongly suggest that a considerable number of pregnant individuals in Texas were unable to …

More women sue Texas, asking court to put emergency block on state’s abortion law
1 year, 7 months ago

More women sue Texas, asking court to put emergency block on state’s abortion law

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — One woman had to carry her baby, missing much of her skull, for months knowing she’d bury her daughter soon after she was born. All of the women were told they could not end their pregnancies in Texas, a state that has enacted some of the nation’s most restrictive abortion laws. Now, they’re asking a Texas court to …

Texas abortion law: the new unintended crisis that could explode in the state.
1 year, 9 months ago

Texas abortion law: the new unintended crisis that could explode in the state.

Slate  

For three days last fall, Leah Wilson entered her pregnant patient’s hospital room and checked the fetus for a heartbeat. “These are things that I haven’t seen in, you know, 20 years of practicing OB, 14 years of practicing high-risk OB—I’ve never run into these situations where people are wondering what to do.” The inability to provide what they say …

Texas Women Sue State for Denying Abortion Despite Health Risks
1 year, 9 months ago

Texas Women Sue State for Denying Abortion Despite Health Risks

News 18  

Amanda Zurawski’s water broke at 17 weeks, far too early for the foetus to survive, but doctors in Texas initially refused to terminate her pregnancy, causing the woman to end up in an ICU with an infection and lose a fallopian tube. Zurawski and several other women who sued the conservative US state after they were denied abortions despite serious …

Women sue Texas over abortion ban, say it risked their lives
1 year, 9 months ago

Women sue Texas over abortion ban, say it risked their lives

Associated Press  

AUSTIN, Texas — Five women who said they were denied abortions even when pregnancy endangered their lives are suing Texas over its abortion ban, the latest legal fight against state restrictions since the U.S. Supreme Court struck down Roe v. Wade. The lawsuit filed Monday in state court said the Texas law, one of the strictest in the country, is …

Why the Victims of Texas’ Most Lethal Abortion Bans Are Finally Going to Court
1 year, 9 months ago

Why the Victims of Texas’ Most Lethal Abortion Bans Are Finally Going to Court

Slate  

On Tuesday, five women filed a lawsuit against Texas claiming that the state’s near-absolute abortion ban prevented doctors from terminating pregnancies that had threatened their lives. But we don’t have to guess the state’s reaction, because it has already staked out a position on this exact question: Texas’ abortion bans strictly bar doctors from terminating a pregnancy until it is …

Texas women who were denied abortions sue the state over ban
1 year, 9 months ago

Texas women who were denied abortions sue the state over ban

Firstpost  

The women wanted to carry their pregnancies to term but discovered during medical examinations that their fetuses were not viable Washington: Five Texas women who were denied abortions despite serious complications have sued the conservative US state, asking a judge to clarify exceptions to the new laws. The lawsuit, filed late Monday, “includes devastating, first-hand accounts of women’s lives almost …

Women sue Texas over abortion ban, saying it threatened their lives
1 year, 9 months ago

Women sue Texas over abortion ban, saying it threatened their lives

LA Times  

Abortion rights demonstrators attend a rally at the Texas state Capitol in Austin on May 14, 2022. Five women who said they were denied abortions even when pregnancy endangered their lives are suing Texas over its abortion ban, the latest legal fight against state restrictions since the U.S. Supreme Court struck down Roe vs. Wade last year. The lawsuit, filed …

5 Texas women denied abortions sue the state, saying the bans put them in danger
1 year, 9 months ago

5 Texas women denied abortions sue the state, saying the bans put them in danger

NPR  

5 Texas women denied abortions sue the state, saying the bans put them in danger Enlarge this image toggle caption Sarah McCammon/NPR Sarah McCammon/NPR AUSTIN — Five women who were denied abortions under Texas law while facing medical crises are suing the state, asking a judge to clarify exceptions to the laws. " have been denied necessary and potentially life-saving …

‘Texas is not abortion-free yet’: After Roe v Wade, what’s next?
1 year, 11 months ago

‘Texas is not abortion-free yet’: After Roe v Wade, what’s next?

Al Jazeera  

50 years after the US Supreme Court decision, a look at life in a post-Roe world. Legislators and activists want to make 2023 the year of closing the loopholes that remain, whether that’s travel to nearby states for the procedure or targeting abortion medication by mail. It had made abortion legal across the United States after the US Supreme Court …

Texas woman almost dies because she couldn’t get an abortion
2 years, 1 month ago

Texas woman almost dies because she couldn’t get an abortion

CNN  

CNN — Another woman has come forward with the harrowing details of how the Supreme Court’s decision four months ago to overturn Roe v. Wade put her life in danger. “Josh always tells me he’s been in love with me since we were 4 years old,” Amanda said. “My doctor said, ‘Well, right now we just have to wait, because …

How are new abortion laws affecting women in the United States?
2 years, 2 months ago

How are new abortion laws affecting women in the United States?

Al Jazeera  

On Wednesday, October 12 at 19:30 GMT: It’s been more than 100 days since the United States Supreme Court ended the constitutional right to abortion. This means almost one in three American women of reproductive age – disproportionally poorer women and those of colour – now live in a state with no abortion options, according to the Guttmacher Institute. Fearful …

17 Million Women Have Lost Abortion Access Since The Supreme Court Overturned Roe
2 years, 3 months ago

17 Million Women Have Lost Abortion Access Since The Supreme Court Overturned Roe

Huff Post  

Illustration: Jianan Liu/HuffPost In the two months since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, more than a dozen states have banned or severely restricted access to abortion ― leaving millions of people without critical health care. Seventeen states have banned, severely restricted or stopped offering access to abortion care since the court took away federal abortion protections in June’s …

Three more GOP-led states enact abortion ‘trigger laws’
2 years, 3 months ago

Three more GOP-led states enact abortion ‘trigger laws’

Associated Press  

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Three more Republican-led states banned almost all abortions this week as yet another slate of laws severely limiting the procedure took effect following the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade. A fourth state, North Dakota, had its trigger ban blocked Thursday by a judge who is weighing an abortion clinic’s legal challenge on grounds …

Abortion to be put further out of reach for millions of women as slate of ‘trigger bans’ take effect
2 years, 3 months ago

Abortion to be put further out of reach for millions of women as slate of ‘trigger bans’ take effect

CNN  

CNN — A slate of restrictive state abortion laws, including so-called trigger laws, are set to take effect this week, putting access to abortion further out of reach for millions of women as Republican-led states rush to limit the procedure since the Supreme Court’s reversal of Roe v. Wade. The Idaho decision came a day after a dueling decision in …

Four more Republican-led US states ban almost all abortions
2 years, 3 months ago

Four more Republican-led US states ban almost all abortions

Al Jazeera  

Additional ‘trigger laws’ that automatically ban abortion are set to go into effect in numerous US states this week. Four more Republican-led states will ban almost all abortions this week as yet another slate of laws severely limiting the procedure takes effect following the US Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v Wade, which had enshrined the federal right to …

Even before the Dobbs ruling, more Americans were traveling for abortions
2 years, 5 months ago

Even before the Dobbs ruling, more Americans were traveling for abortions

NPR  

Even before the Dobbs ruling, more Americans were traveling for abortions Enlarge this image toggle caption Angela Weiss/AFP via Getty Images Angela Weiss/AFP via Getty Images Even before last month's Supreme Court decision overturning Roe v. Wade, a growing number of people were traveling across state lines for abortions. Interstate travel for abortion is expected to continue to increase as …

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