It is time to abort Texas’s abortion law – and much more
3 years, 3 months ago

It is time to abort Texas’s abortion law – and much more

Al Jazeera  

On September 1, the state of Texas implemented Senate Bill 8 banning abortion after six weeks of pregnancy, including in cases of rape and incest. As NPR notes, the Texas Right to Life organisation has already “set up what it calls a ‘whistleblower’ website where people can submit anonymous tips about anyone they believe to be violating the law”. Reuters reported that “in an unsigned explanation, the court’s majority said the Texas law’s unusual construction – leaving enforcement to individuals bringing lawsuits – limited its ability to act”. According to right-wing Republican Texas governor Greg Abbott, SB8 “ensures that the life of every unborn child who has a heartbeat will be saved from the ravages of abortion”. As I was perusing a recent Washington Post article on SB8, I came across a paragraph on an anti-abortion demonstration outside a clinic in Austin, Texas, which contained a name that rang a bell: “Celie Harden knelt in the dirt, rosary in hand, and prayed”, enthusing that it was “‘fantastic’ that regular citizens now have the ability to sue clinics and others who help facilitate illegal abortions”.

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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 …

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 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 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 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 …

Kate Cox brings abortion bans back into the spotlight as six cases play out in courtrooms across the US
1 year ago

Kate Cox brings abortion bans back into the spotlight as six cases play out in courtrooms across the US

ABC  

When the US Supreme Court overturned Roe v Wade last year, it did not remove the issue from the courts. Kate Cox, a woman who had asked a court for an exception to get an emergency abortion, will leave Texas to receive care while the US state's highest court considers her case. Battle between local and state in New Mexico …

'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 …

Texas women who could not get abortions despite health risks take challenge to state’s Supreme Court
1 year ago

Texas women who could not get abortions despite health risks take challenge to state’s Supreme Court

Associated Press  

AUSTIN, Texas — The Texas Supreme Court on Tuesday scrutinized efforts to clarify exceptions to the state’s abortion ban, which a growing number of women say forced them to continue pregnancies despite serious risks to their health. The Texas Supreme Court hears oral arguments for Zurawski v. State of Texas, Tuesday, Nov. 28, 2023, in Austin, Texas. Dr. Austin Dennard …

How the Texas trial changed the story of abortion rights in America
1 year, 4 months ago

How the Texas trial changed the story of abortion rights in America

Salon  

During the five decades that followed Roe v. Wade, lawsuit after lawsuit in states across the country chipped away at abortion rights. "All of these secrets — abortion, miscarriage, the blurring of miscarriage and abortion — that's something people viscerally appreciate now." Before the Supreme Court's conservative majority eliminated a federal right to abortion last June, polls showed that nationwide …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

‘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 …

Gavin Newsom signs California gun bill modeled after Texas abortion law
2 years, 5 months ago

Gavin Newsom signs California gun bill modeled after Texas abortion law

CNN  

CNN — California Gov. The US Supreme Court in December allowed Texas’ six-week abortion ban to remain in effect, which prompted Newsom, who has been supportive of abortion rights and pro-gun control, to say he was “outraged” by the court’s decision and direct his staff to draft a similar bill to regulate guns. The law, introduced in February, says that …

Column: Threats to criminalize out-of-state abortions are a scary reminder of 1850s America
2 years, 5 months ago

Column: Threats to criminalize out-of-state abortions are a scary reminder of 1850s America

LA Times  

Abortion rights supporters march to the White House to denounce the U.S. Supreme Court decision to end federal abortion rights protections on Saturday. With Roe vs. Wade overturned, law professors from three Pennsylvania universities observe in a draft paper, “we have already seen the beginnings of these battles.” Among the signposts is Texas’ infamous SB 8, an anti-abortion law that …

Texas judge blocks pre-Roe v Wade abortion ban
2 years, 5 months ago

Texas judge blocks pre-Roe v Wade abortion ban

Al Jazeera  

Abortion performed up to the sixth week of pregnancy can now resume in Texas at some clinics, US legal groups say. A judge in Texas has blocked officials from enforcing a dormant 1925 abortion ban that the US state’s Republican attorney general said was back in effect after the United States Supreme Court overturned the constitutional right to the procedure …

Judge temporarily blocks Texas AG Ken Paxton's plan to immediately enforce pre-Roe abortion ban
2 years, 5 months ago

Judge temporarily blocks Texas AG Ken Paxton's plan to immediately enforce pre-Roe abortion ban

Salon  

"Abortions up to six weeks of pregnancy can temporarily resume in Texas, judge rules" 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. "It is a relief that this Texas state court acted so quickly to block this deeply harmful …

If Supreme Court overturns Roe v. Wade, Texas will completely ban abortion
2 years, 7 months ago

If Supreme Court overturns Roe v. Wade, Texas will completely ban abortion

Raw Story  

Sign up for The Brief, our daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news. Last year, the Legislature passed a so-called “trigger law” that would go into effect 30 days after the Supreme Court overturns Roe v. Wade, making performing abortion a felony. The 1992 decision in Planned Parenthood v. Casey upheld Roe v. …

Column: Texas abortion law gives gun-controlling California, gun lobby something to agree on
2 years, 10 months ago

Column: Texas abortion law gives gun-controlling California, gun lobby something to agree on

LA Times  

Gavin Newsom speaks to the media on Friday, in Del Mar, Calif., where he backed state legislation that would allow for private citizens to enforce the state’s ban on assault weapons. “The Supreme Court of the United States opened a door wide open.. “If Texas can use a law to ban a woman’s right to choose and to put her …

The consequences of Texas' restrictive abortion law
2 years, 10 months ago

The consequences of Texas' restrictive abortion law

NPR  

The consequences of Texas' restrictive abortion law For patients seeking abortions in Texas, services have been drastically reduced. The new law translates into thousands of Texas women each month unable to get the abortion they want in state. With the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals and the U.S. Supreme Court so far refusing to intervene, abortion in the Lone Star …

Abortions in Texas fell 60% in 1st month under new limits
2 years, 10 months ago

Abortions in Texas fell 60% in 1st month under new limits

Associated Press  

AUSTIN, Texas — Abortions in Texas fell by 60% in the first month under the most restrictive abortion law in the U.S. in decades, according to new figures that for the first time reveal a full accounting of the immediate impact. The nearly 2,200 abortions reported by Texas providers in September came after a new law took effect that bans …

Abortions in Texas fell 60% in the first month after its new law took effect
2 years, 10 months ago

Abortions in Texas fell 60% in the first month after its new law took effect

NPR  

Abortions in Texas fell 60% in the first month after its new law took effect Enlarge this image toggle caption Shafkat Anowar/The Dallas Morning New/via AP Shafkat Anowar/The Dallas Morning New/via AP AUSTIN, Texas — Abortions in Texas fell by 60% in the first month under the most restrictive abortion law in the U.S. in decades, according to new figures …

Texas abortion law spurs copycat measures, from guns in California to critical race theory in Florida
3 years ago

Texas abortion law spurs copycat measures, from guns in California to critical race theory in Florida

LA Times  

A gun rights group warned the Supreme Court in late October that upholding Texas’ so-called vigilante antiabortion law would have grave consequences for other constitutionally protected activities. “The most useful way to appreciate the significance of this case is to stop thinking of it as an abortion case and recognize it for what it is,” wrote Erik Jaffe, a Washington, …

Column: Newsom stares down Texas on abortion and guns, winning political points in the process
3 years ago

Column: Newsom stares down Texas on abortion and guns, winning political points in the process

LA Times  

Gavin Newsom responds to questions at the Veterans Affairs campus in Los Angeles on Nov. 10. Loyola Law School professor Jessica Levinson puts it this way: “Newsom is saying to Texas, ‘I’ll see your abortion restriction and raise you a gun restriction.’” There’s one major difference between what Texas did and what Newsom proposed: Texas targeted abortions that are constitutionally …

Behind Supreme Court’s shift toward ending right to abortion
3 years ago

Behind Supreme Court’s shift toward ending right to abortion

LA Times  

The Supreme Court is ending the year starkly split on abortion, with the five conservatives showing all signs they will overturn Roe vs. Wade and let state lawmakers decide whether women may legally end a pregnancy. First, the court, by a 5-4 vote, stood aside on Sept. 1 while Texas, the nation’s most populace red state, put into effect a …

California governor wants Texas-like law to ban assault guns
3 years ago

California governor wants Texas-like law to ban assault guns

Associated Press  

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California Gov. The Texas law allows private citizens to enforce the ban, empowering them to sue abortion clinics and anyone else who “aids and abets” with the procedure. “If states can now shield their laws from review by the federal courts that compare assault weapons to Swiss Army knives, then California will use that authority to protect …

California governor says he will use legal tactics of Texas abortion ban to implement gun control
3 years ago

California governor says he will use legal tactics of Texas abortion ban to implement gun control

CNN  

CNN — California Gov. Gavin Newsom expressed his “outrage” Saturday at a Supreme Court decision to allow the Texas six-week abortion ban to remain in effect and said he would use similar legal tactics to tackle gun control in his state. “I am outraged by yesterday’s US Supreme Court decision allowing Texas’s ban on most abortion services to remain in …

What John Roberts’ role in Texas’ abortion case could signal for the future of Roe
3 years ago

What John Roberts’ role in Texas’ abortion case could signal for the future of Roe

CNN  

CNN — Chief Justice John Roberts wrote a razor-sharp opinion Friday emphasizing that Texas’ abortion law defies Supreme Court precedent and should expose the many state officials who play a key role in the “scheme” to federal lawsuit. 8,” Roberts wrote, referring to the Texas ban on abortions after roughly six weeks of pregnancy, “has been to nullify this Court’s …

Judge: Texas abortion law’s enforcement mechanism not valid
3 years ago

Judge: Texas abortion law’s enforcement mechanism not valid

Associated Press  

AUSTIN, Texas — A Texas judge said Thursday the enforcement mechanism behind the nation’s strictest abortion law— which rewards lawsuits against violators by awarding judgments of $10,000 — is unconstitutional in a narrow ruling that still leaves a near-total ban on abortions in place. Planned Parenthood celebrated the state ruling but said abortion services still remain “virtually inaccessible” in Texas, …

Supreme Court refuses to block Texas abortion law as legal fights move forward
3 years ago

Supreme Court refuses to block Texas abortion law as legal fights move forward

NPR  

Supreme Court refuses to block Texas abortion law as legal fights move forward Enlarge this image toggle caption Jacquelyn Martin/AP Jacquelyn Martin/AP The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday refused for a second time to block a Texas law that has virtually brought abortions to a halt for anyone more than six weeks pregnant, a time so early that many women …

Supreme Court leaves Texas abortion law in effect, allows only a narrow challenge to it
3 years ago

Supreme Court leaves Texas abortion law in effect, allows only a narrow challenge to it

LA Times  

Abortion rights advocates and abortion opponents demonstrate in front of the Supreme Court on Dec. 1. A divided Supreme Court declined Friday to block a Texas law that has banned most abortions there and left doctors and abortion clinics with few legal options for challenging it. Speaking for the fractured court on Friday, Justice Neil M. Gorsuch said abortion providers …

Alabama Is The 4th State To File A Copycat Version Of Texas’ Extreme Abortion Ban
3 years ago

Alabama Is The 4th State To File A Copycat Version Of Texas’ Extreme Abortion Ban

Huff Post  

LOADING ERROR LOADING Pro-choice advocates warned a domino effect would happen in the wake of Texas’ extreme abortion restriction – and it’s officially underway. “And these lawmakers will stop at nothing to attack abortion from every angle imaginable.” Some believe that Kiel’s copycat bill and others like it in Arkansas, Florida and Ohio are nothing more than political grandstanding since …

Preview of ‘a post-Roe world’ in Texas over abortion access
3 years ago

Preview of ‘a post-Roe world’ in Texas over abortion access

Associated Press  

AUSTIN, Texas — Texas offers a glimpse in real time of what would be a striking new national landscape if the Supreme Court drastically curtails abortion rights: GOP-led states allowing almost no access to abortion, and women traveling hundreds of miles to end their pregnancies. “What we’ve experienced the past three months in Texas is a preview of a post-Roe …

Preview of ‘a post-Roe world’ in Texas over abortion access
3 years ago

Preview of ‘a post-Roe world’ in Texas over abortion access

Associated Press  

AUSTIN, Texas — Texas offers a glimpse in real time of what would be a striking new national landscape if the Supreme Court drastically curtails abortion rights: GOP-led states allowing almost no access to abortion, and women traveling hundreds of miles to end their pregnancies. “What we’ve experienced the past three months in Texas is a preview of a post-Roe …

Texas abortion ban stays in force as justices mull outcome
3 years, 1 month ago

Texas abortion ban stays in force as justices mull outcome

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — More than two weeks have passed since the Supreme Court’s extraordinarily rushed arguments over Texas’ unique abortion law without any word from the justices. The law has been in effect since Sept. 1 and the court has been unable to muster five votes to stop it, said Mary Ziegler, a legal historian at Florida State University’s law school. …

Texas abortion ban stays in force as justices mull outcome
3 years, 1 month ago

Texas abortion ban stays in force as justices mull outcome

The Independent  

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How the Texas ban on most abortions is harming survivors of rape and incest
3 years, 1 month ago

How the Texas ban on most abortions is harming survivors of rape and incest

NPR  

How the Texas ban on most abortions is harming survivors of rape and incest Enlarge this image toggle caption SERGIO FLORES/Sergio Flores/AFP via Getty Images SERGIO FLORES/Sergio Flores/AFP via Getty Images The SAFE Alliance in Austin helps survivors of child abuse, sexual assault and domestic violence. "Devastating" for survivors of repeated rape and abuse While many people don't realize they …

Supreme Court questions controversial Texas abortion law
3 years, 1 month ago

Supreme Court questions controversial Texas abortion law

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — A majority of the Supreme Court signaled Monday they would allow abortion providers to pursue a court challenge to the controversial Texas law that has virtually ended abortion in the nation’s second-largest state after six weeks of pregnancy. Barrett, too, pressed Stone about provisions of the law that force providers to fight lawsuits one by one and, she …

Live updates: Texas’ abortion law heads to SCOTUS
3 years, 1 month ago

Live updates: Texas’ abortion law heads to SCOTUS

CNN  

The oral arguments on the Texas law that bars abortion at around six weeks of pregnancy have wrapped. What the justices said: Two key conservative justices seemed open to arguments from abortion providers that they should be able to challenge the ban in federal court, but in a separate challenge, brought by the Department of Justice, several conservative justices did …

Supreme Court justices seem to tilt toward abortion providers in Texas
3 years, 1 month ago

Supreme Court justices seem to tilt toward abortion providers in Texas

NPR  

Supreme Court justices seem to tilt toward abortion providers in Texas Enlarge this image toggle caption Jacquelyn Martin/AP Jacquelyn Martin/AP The Supreme Court appeared inclined Monday to allow abortion providers to challenge a controversial Texas law that in effect bans all abortions after six weeks of pregnancy, which is before most women know they are pregnant. Sponsor Message On Monday, …

Supreme Court: Two conservative justices appear open to abortion providers being able to challenge Texas law
3 years, 1 month ago

Supreme Court: Two conservative justices appear open to abortion providers being able to challenge Texas law

CNN  

CNN — Two key conservative justices seemed open to arguments from abortion providers that they should be able to challenge a Texas abortion six-week ban in federal court as the Supreme Court grappled with the issue for nearly three hours on Monday. In a separate challenge, brought by the Department of Justice, however, several conservative justices did express some reservations …

Liberal justices warn that guns, same-sex marriage and religious rights could face limits if Texas wins abortion case
3 years, 1 month ago

Liberal justices warn that guns, same-sex marriage and religious rights could face limits if Texas wins abortion case

CNN  

CNN — Justice Sonia Sotomayor warned that constitutional rights enshrined in Supreme Court decisions concerning gun rights, same-sex marriage, birth control and other contentious issues could be open to attack depending on how the court handled the Texas abortion ban cases that were in front of it Monday. Justice Stephen Breyer at Monday’s hearing referenced the desegregation battles of the …

EXPLAINER: Texas abortion law gets Supreme Court arguments
3 years, 2 months ago

EXPLAINER: Texas abortion law gets Supreme Court arguments

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Friday allowed a Texas law that bans most abortions to remain in effect for now. Those arguments at the high court on Nov. 1 will help the justices decide whether the law, the most restrictive abortion law in the nation, should be blocked while legal challenges continue. The challenges to Texas’ law now before …

Bulletproof glass and 24-hour surveillance: The life of an American abortion doctor
3 years, 2 months ago

Bulletproof glass and 24-hour surveillance: The life of an American abortion doctor

ABC  

Warren Hern doesn’t live like any ordinary doctor. "The people running Texas are against democracy, they’re against having civil society, they’re against having freedom for women – they don’t care if women die." “We’re seeing an increasing number of patients from Texas when Texas started limiting access to abortion more recently within the last 10 years," Dr Hern said. Dr …

EXPLAINER: The Texas abortion law’s swift impact, and future
3 years, 2 months ago

EXPLAINER: The Texas abortion law’s swift impact, and future

Associated Press  

AUSTIN, Texas — Most abortions in Texas are banned again after clinics that had raced to provide them during a two-day legal reprieve canceled appointments Saturday following a whiplash appeals court ruling. Circuit Court of Appeals issued a one-page order Friday night, reinstating a Texas law that prohibits abortions once medical professionals can detect cardiac activity, usually around six weeks …

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