Why providers say abortion ban exceptions continue to cause confusion
9 months, 4 weeks ago

Why providers say abortion ban exceptions continue to cause confusion

NPR  

Why providers say abortion ban exceptions continue to cause confusion toggle caption Joe Raedle/Getty Images North America TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — When Dr. Rachel Humphrey went to medical school, she says she never imagined caring for her patients could land her in prison. Humphrey says an exemption to protect a pregnant person’s life makes sense on the surface, but that it means the state has ascribed her and her colleagues a “superhuman ability to predict outcomes that we don’t necessarily have that ability to predict.” The Florida Agency for Health Care Administration issued a set of temporary emergency rules, in an attempt, officials say, to clear up confusion. Humphrey says a woman under her care had survived a heart attack not long before becoming pregnant and that conditions common in pregnancy, like hypertension and bleeding, could pose a threat to the patient’s life. Sponsor Message “Let’s say that this patient who’s had heart attacks actually has children at home” and has a great fear of dying because her mother died in her mid-40s, Humphrey says.

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How Republican State Lawmakers Are Trying to Have It Both Ways on Lifesaving Abortions
1 week, 3 days ago

How Republican State Lawmakers Are Trying to Have It Both Ways on Lifesaving Abortions

Slate  

Sign up for the Slatest to get the most insightful analysis, criticism, and advice out there, delivered to your inbox daily. For example, Texas state Sen. Bryan Hughes, who has been behind many of the state’s most consequential criminal abortion laws, has proposed modifying the existing medical-emergency exception by striking the word life-saving and authorizing training on the meaning of …

Kentucky lawmakers add specific medical exceptions to the state’s near-total abortion ban
2 weeks, 6 days ago

Kentucky lawmakers add specific medical exceptions to the state’s near-total abortion ban

Associated Press  

FRANKFORT, Ky. — Republican lawmakers inserted several medical exceptions into Kentucky’s near-total abortion ban on Thursday, seeking to offer clarity to doctors fearful of breaking the law for terminating pregnancies while treating expectant mothers with grave complications. “It ensures women facing life-threatening situations receive timely, appropriate medical care, and gives providers the legal certainty they need to act decisively,” said …

Infant mortality rises in states with abortion bans, study finds
1 month, 2 weeks ago

Infant mortality rises in states with abortion bans, study finds

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 Your briefing on the latest headlines from across the US SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. After the bans took effect, infant mortality rates …

Idaho’s strict abortion ban faces scrutiny in federal appeals court hearing
3 months, 3 weeks 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, …

'Worried': Experts concerned as Texas board declines to investigate abortion ban deaths
4 months, 1 week 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 months, 1 week 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, …

Doctors reaching for riskier miscarriage treatment as a third woman dies under Texas’ abortion ban
4 months, 1 week ago

Doctors reaching for riskier miscarriage treatment as a third woman dies under Texas’ abortion ban

Salon  

Series: Life of the Mother: How Abortion Bans Lead to Preventable Deaths More in this series 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 …

Women suing over Idaho’s abortion ban describe dangerous pregnancies, becoming ‘medical refugees’
4 months, 3 weeks ago

Women suing over Idaho’s abortion ban describe dangerous pregnancies, becoming ‘medical refugees’

Associated Press  

BOISE, Idaho — Four women suing over Idaho’s strict abortion bans told a judge Tuesday how excitement over their pregnancies turned to grief and fear after they learned their fetuses were not likely to survive to birth — and how they had to leave the state to get abortions amid fears that pregnancy complications would put their own health in …

'Unspoken' abortion ban in regions
5 months ago

'Unspoken' abortion ban in regions

ABC  

Sally Sara: Abortion is a legal right across the country, but doctors say an unspoken ban is denying some women access in rural and regional areas. Your story has uncovered the case of a woman who was turned away from a scheduled abortion in southern New South Wales. But Melissa was booked in, as you said, for a surgical termination …

Texas Woman's Heart-Wrenching Story: A Tale of Sepsis and Loss
5 months, 1 week ago

Texas Woman's Heart-Wrenching Story: A Tale of Sepsis and Loss

Associated Press  

A new series of Kamala Harris campaign ads highlights the precarious medical care for women since the fall of Roe v. Wade. One ad features a Texas woman who lost her baby to sepsis due to a lack of proper medical care. Another ad focuses on the emotional impact of the issue on both the woman and her husband.

Why Record Numbers of People Who Aren’t Pregnant Are Ordering Abortion Medication
5 months, 1 week ago

Why Record Numbers of People Who Aren’t Pregnant Are Ordering Abortion Medication

Slate  

Since the fall of Roe v. Wade in 2022, a growing number of people in the United States are buying abortion pills and keeping them on hand just in case they need them in the future. Some states have been removing the “known pregnancy” requirements since Dobbs, potentially making it easier to prosecute advance provision, missed period pills, and other …

Tennessee judges say doctors can't be disciplined for providing emergency abortions
5 months, 2 weeks ago

Tennessee judges say doctors can't be disciplined for providing emergency 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 three-judge panel on Thursday …

"Dangerously warped": Care for pregnant people since Dobbs is "compromised," doctors say
6 months, 3 weeks ago

"Dangerously warped": Care for pregnant people since Dobbs is "compromised," doctors say

Salon  

Since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade with the Dobbs decision, doctors on the frontlines have shared horror stories about how medical care for pregnant people has changed. "Our findings suggest that, rather than increasing clarity and identifying workarounds over time to provide evidence- based care, abortion bans have fundamentally altered how pregnancy-related care — and even other medical …

Abortion bans are pushing people to terminate later in pregnancy
6 months, 3 weeks ago

Abortion bans are pushing people to terminate later in pregnancy

Salon  

Dr. Diane Horvath is an OB-GYN who has worked in abortion care over the last 15 years. But since the Supreme Court Dobbs decision overturned Roe v. Wade, allowing states to deny access to abortion, she’s noticed a trend at her clinic in Maryland: abortion bans and gestational restrictions are forcing people who try to get abortions earlier in pregnancy …

Letters to the Editor: Shame on ‘pro-life’ states for scaring doctors and endangering patients
7 months, 2 weeks ago

Letters to the Editor: Shame on ‘pro-life’ states for scaring doctors and endangering patients

LA Times  

To the editor: First, let’s distinguish what an abortion is and isn’t. I find it unconscionable that an ER doctor would send away a patient suspected of having an ectopic pregnancy because the physician is scared of possibly receiving jail time. Texas law shields doctors from prosecution for terminating an ectopic pregnancy, even if the diagnosis is incorrect. To the …

Rise in pregnancy terminations in US after verdict favouring abortion overturned
7 months, 3 weeks ago

Rise in pregnancy terminations in US after verdict favouring abortion overturned

India Today  

The number of women getting abortions in the US 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. In March, doctors in states with laws to protect medical providers used telemedicine to prescribe abortion …

Supreme Court stops short of saying doctors must save women's lives and health
9 months ago

Supreme Court stops short of saying doctors must save women's lives and health

Raw Story  

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled on the most recent abortion case mandating that doctors provide life-saving abortions if a pregnant woman is dying and in the event her health is in jeopardy. "An Idaho law prohibits abortions unless necessary to prevent a pregnant woman's death; the law makes no exception for abortions necessary to prevent grave harms to the woman's …

Another major Supreme Court abortion ruling mistakenly posted online: report
9 months, 1 week ago

Another major Supreme Court abortion ruling mistakenly posted online: report

Raw Story  

A Supreme Court opinion mistakenly posted Wednesday showed the justices are poised to allow abortions in medical emergencies in Idaho. The leaked decision shows the justices plan to reinstate a lower court ruling that said Idaho hospitals could continue performing emergency abortions to protect mothers. “The Court’s opinion in Moyle v. United States and Idaho v. United States will be …

Justices seem set to allow emergency abortions in Idaho for now, a prematurely posted opinion says
9 months, 1 week ago

Justices seem set to allow emergency abortions in Idaho for now, a prematurely posted opinion says

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court appears poised to allow emergency abortions in Idaho when a pregnant patient’s health is at serious risk, according to a copy of the opinion briefly posted on the court’s website Wednesday and obtained by Bloomberg News. The decision would reverse the Supreme Court’s earlier order that allowed an Idaho abortion ban to temporarily go into …

Texas medical panel issues new guidelines for doctors but no specific exceptions for abortion ban
9 months, 1 week ago

Texas medical panel issues new guidelines for doctors but no specific exceptions for abortion ban

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 Texas medical panel on …

Continuing Pregnancy Of Woman Unable To Manage Herself Will Be Problematic In Future Life: MP High Court Grants Relief To Disabled Rape Survivor
9 months, 3 weeks ago

Continuing Pregnancy Of Woman Unable To Manage Herself Will Be Problematic In Future Life: MP High Court Grants Relief To Disabled Rape Survivor

Live Law  

Madhya Pradesh High Court has permitted the termination of a 17-year-old rape survivor's pregnancy at 29 weeks, subject to certain conditions, considering the peculiar circumstances involved. After a single judge bench of the High Court agreed with the Medical Board's Report disapproving termination of pregnancy on 06.05.2024, the survivor and her family took the recourse of writ appeal. In X …

Abortion laws aren’t working – women deserve the power to choose for themselves
10 months, 1 week ago

Abortion laws aren’t working – women deserve the power to choose for themselves

The Independent  

Abortion is ancient history – literally. One is that a young woman in England who was 19 years old at the time of her alleged illegal abortion currently faces a prison sentence, and the other is that our ability as a society to have meaningful discussions about the lived experience of abortion and to take care of women during the …

'Foetus Has Fundamental Right To Live': SC Rejects Plea For 27-Week-Pregnancy Termination
10 months, 2 weeks ago

'Foetus Has Fundamental Right To Live': SC Rejects Plea For 27-Week-Pregnancy Termination

ABP News  

The Supreme Court on Wednesday refused to entertain a plea of a 20-year-old unmarried woman seeking termination of her over 27-week pregnancy, saying the foetus in the womb also has a fundamental right to live. A bench headed by Justice B R Gavai passed the order while hearing the woman's plea challenging the Delhi High Court's May 3 order refusing …

Florida clarified abortion rules after enacting ban. Doctors say it's "gaslighting" and unhelpful
10 months, 3 weeks ago

Florida clarified abortion rules after enacting ban. Doctors say it's "gaslighting" and unhelpful

Salon  

One day after Florida’s six-week abortion went into effect, the state’s Agency for Health Care Administration issued clarifying “rules” ​​in the face of what the agency called a “deeply dishonest scare campaign and disinformation” by the media, the Biden Administration, and advocacy groups to misrepresent the new law. But in Florida’s attempt to clarify the rules, doctors tell Salon it’s …

Supreme Court Debates Emergency Abortion Care
11 months, 1 week ago

Supreme Court Debates Emergency Abortion Care

Huff Post  

LOADING ERROR LOADING The Supreme Court heard heated arguments on Wednesday over whether states can criminalize life-saving, stabilizing abortion care in emergency medical situations. The Supreme Court case focuses on one of the Idaho ban’s three narrowly defined exceptions: when an abortion is “necessary to prevent the death of the pregnant woman.” Federal law states that physicians are legally required …

Supreme Court weighs whether hospitals obligated to provide emergency abortions
11 months, 1 week ago

Supreme Court weighs whether hospitals obligated to provide emergency abortions

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 Get our free Inside Washington email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy The Supreme Court will hear arguments on Wednesday in a …

Opinion: Here’s How Dangerous This SCOTUS Abortion Ruling Could Be
11 months, 1 week ago

Opinion: Here’s How Dangerous This SCOTUS Abortion Ruling Could Be

Huff Post  

The U.S. Supreme Court is about to rule on a case in which abortion bans in several states collide with the daily reality of emergency medicine in hospitals across the nation ― and its decision will have life-and-death implications. At the heart of Idaho v. United States and Moyle v. United States is whether hospital emergency departments in states that …

Editorial: Pregnant women are not incubators. Antiabortion states should not deny them emergency care
11 months, 1 week ago

Editorial: Pregnant women are not incubators. Antiabortion states should not deny them emergency care

LA Times  

Hundreds march in a rally organized by Abortion Safe House LBC, a coalition of volunteers providing abortion services and safe shelter for pregnant people, in support of nationwide protests by Rise Up 4 Abortion Rights in Long Beach in 2022. It’s absurd that in the 21st century, the Supreme Court is debating how close to death pregnant women need to …

"Slippery slope": Supreme Court ruling on emergency abortion protocols threatens stark ripple effect
11 months, 1 week ago

"Slippery slope": Supreme Court ruling on emergency abortion protocols threatens stark ripple effect

Salon  

In Idaho, OBGYNs and family medicine doctors live in constant fear that they will have to deny a pregnant patient stabilizing, emergency care. “We’re looking at this as state-sanctioned discrimination against pregnant patients and we're looking at it as state-sanctioned emotional and physical distress that pregnant patients will have to be subjected to because of how Idaho is interpreting EMTALA.” …

SC Allows Abortion for 30-Week Pregnant Minor Rape Victim, Understanding Medical Termination of Pregnancy Act
11 months, 1 week ago

SC Allows Abortion for 30-Week Pregnant Minor Rape Victim, Understanding Medical Termination of Pregnancy Act

News 18  

In a significant step, the Supreme Court has allowed medical termination of almost 30-week pregnancy of a 14-year-old rape survivor. According to the Medical Termination of Pregnancy Act, abortion is allowed up to 24 weeks for married women, rape survivors and differently-abled and minors. Before the enactment of the MTP Act in 1971, the medical termination of pregnancy was governed …

Tennessee court to weigh throwing out abortion ban challenge, blocking portions of the law
11 months, 4 weeks ago

Tennessee court to weigh throwing out abortion ban challenge, blocking portions of the law

Associated Press  

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Attorneys defending Tennessee’s sweeping abortion ban alleged Thursday that doctors challenging the law do not want any oversight when deciding to terminate a pregnancy and instead are improperly withholding care to women facing serious medical emergencies. “And that’s not been how things have worked in the abortion context.” The Center for Reproductive Rights, which is representing the …

Tennessee women fight to block state’s abortion ban after being denied treatment for dangerous pregnancies
11 months, 4 weeks ago

Tennessee women fight to block state’s abortion ban after being denied treatment for dangerous pregnancies

The Independent  

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

Standard pregnancy care is now dangerously disrupted in Louisiana, report reveals
1 year ago

Standard pregnancy care is now dangerously disrupted in Louisiana, report reveals

NPR  

Standard pregnancy care is now dangerously disrupted in Louisiana, report reveals Enlarge this image toggle caption Christiana Botic Christiana Botic In the wake of Louisiana's abortion ban, pregnant women have been given risky, unnecessary surgeries, denied swift treatment for miscarriages and ectopic pregnancies, and forced to wait until their life is at risk before getting an abortion, according to a …

Kate Cox sought an abortion in Texas. A court said no because she didn’t show her life was in danger
1 year, 3 months ago

Kate Cox sought an abortion in Texas. A court said no because she didn’t show her life was in danger

Associated Press  

AUSTIN, Texas — Kate Cox, whose fetus had a fatal condition, did not qualify for an abortion in Texas: not after four emergency room visits, elevated vital signs, risks of a uterine rupture and with her ability to have more children in jeopardy. The Texas Supreme Court’s rejection of the mother of two’s request for an exception under the state’s …

‘Incorrect to Call It Abortion’: Medical Fraternity Divided on SC’s Rejection of Plea to End 26-Week Pregnancy
1 year, 5 months ago

‘Incorrect to Call It Abortion’: Medical Fraternity Divided on SC’s Rejection of Plea to End 26-Week Pregnancy

News 18  

On Monday, the Supreme Court dismissed the request of a married woman to terminate her pregnancy which had progressed beyond 26 weeks. C-Section is avoided.” “For instance,” she said citing examples from other countries, “such drugs are injected but only in cases where the foetus has a proven anomaly such as Down Syndrome or the mother’s life is at critical …

Supreme Court refuses to permit married woman to terminate her over 26-week pregnancy
1 year, 5 months ago

Supreme Court refuses to permit married woman to terminate her over 26-week pregnancy

The Hindu  

The Supreme Court on Monday declined a married woman’s plea to medically terminate her 26-week pregnancy, saying the court is averse to ordering doctors to “stop the heartbeat” of the foetus when medical reports say she will give birth to a “viable baby”. Chandrachud made it clear that the woman cannot claim an “absolute, overriding right” to abort, especially when …

Why are abortion laws in the spotlight again? | Explained
1 year, 5 months ago

Why are abortion laws in the spotlight again? | Explained

The Hindu  

The story so far: A married woman 26 weeks pregnant has approached the Supreme Court seeking to terminate her pregnancy citing inability to take care of the child due to post-partum depression and other health issues. The Supreme Court on October 9 agreed to her plea, but two days later, a two-judge Bench of Justices Hima Kohli and B.V. Nagarathna …

South Carolina abortion ban with unclear ‘fetal heartbeat’ definition creates confusion, doctors say
1 year, 7 months ago

South Carolina abortion ban with unclear ‘fetal heartbeat’ definition creates confusion, doctors say

Associated Press  

COLUMBIA, S.C. — When the South Carolina Supreme Court upheld a ban on most abortions this week, the majority wrote that they were leaving “for another day” a decision on when, exactly, the “fetal heartbeat” limit begins during pregnancy. “This language creates uncertainty among medical providers who may be unsure they’re legally allowed to terminate a pregnancy.” South Carolina and …

Trump judge's actual argument for abortion bans: Doctors are harmed without cute sonograms
1 year, 7 months ago

Trump judge's actual argument for abortion bans: Doctors are harmed without cute sonograms

Salon  

Watch out, Justice Samuel Alito! He was sworn in by Justice Clarence Thomas at the home of billionaire Harlan Crow, but Ho routinely paints himself as the victim of "elites" like, uh, college students and everyday women who need abortion access. As James LaRock at Balls and Strikes writes, "Ho often confuses being a federal judge with being a speechwriter …

Judge Rules Texas' Abortion Ban Is Too Restrictive For Women With Pregnancy Complications
1 year, 7 months ago

Judge Rules Texas' Abortion Ban Is Too Restrictive For Women With Pregnancy Complications

Huff Post  

LOADING ERROR LOADING AUSTIN, Texas — A Texas judge ruled Friday the state’s abortion ban has proven too restrictive for women with serious pregnancy complications and must allow exceptions without doctors fearing the threat of criminal charges. The ruling is the first to undercut Texas’ law since it took effect in 2022 and delivers a major victory to abortion rights …

A judge has ruled Texas’ abortion ban is too restrictive for women with pregnancy complications
1 year, 7 months ago

A judge has ruled Texas’ abortion ban is too restrictive for women with pregnancy complications

LA Times  

Amanda Zurawski, who developed sepsis and nearly died after being refused an abortion when her water broke at 18 weeks, left, and Samantha Casiano, who was forced to carry a nonviable pregnancy to term and give birth to a baby who died four hours after birth, center, stand with their attorney Molly Duane outside the Travis County Courthouse on July …

Pence would ban abortions when pregnancies aren’t viable. His GOP rivals won’t say if they agree
1 year, 8 months ago

Pence would ban abortions when pregnancies aren’t viable. His GOP rivals won’t say if they agree

Associated Press  

NEW YORK — In a Republican presidential field full of candidates opposed to abortion rights, Mike Pence stands out in his embrace of the cause. “One of the things that you cannot understate is the difficulty for a woman to carry a nonviable pregnancy,” said Alan Peaceman, professor emeritus of obstetrics and gynecology at Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine. …

Pence would ban abortions when pregnancies aren’t viable. GOP rivals won’t say if they agree
1 year, 8 months ago

Pence would ban abortions when pregnancies aren’t viable. GOP rivals won’t say if they agree

LA Times  

Former Vice President Mike Pence meets with supporters after speaking at the National Celebrate Life Rally at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington last month. “One of the things that you cannot understate is the difficulty for a woman to carry a nonviable pregnancy,” said Alan Peaceman, professor emeritus of obstetrics and gynecology at Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine. But …

Unsafe Abortions Can Be Fatal
1 year, 8 months ago

Unsafe Abortions Can Be Fatal

Deccan Chronicle  

Pregnancy is usually considered a happy, blessed occasion, something most women rejoice over. When a foetus is aborted in a healthcare facility by a registered medical practitioner trained in doing MTPs – medical termination of pregnancy – using methods recommended by WHO, it is called ‘safe abortion’. When MTP is a necessity Despite debates in some countries, which ban or …

Strict abortion laws are driving an exodus of women's health specialists
1 year, 9 months ago

Strict abortion laws are driving an exodus of women's health specialists

Salon  

As a fetal surgeon, Dr. Alireza Shamshirsa's job is to give a fetus the best chance of life. "In the weeks that followed, I relived the decision with patients as they realized that the pregnancy they had put all their hopes and dreams into wouldn't result in a live child, but that wasn't a 'good enough' reason to end the …

One year later, the U.S. Supreme Court's decision on right to abortion is both scorned and praised
1 year, 9 months ago

One year later, the U.S. Supreme Court's decision on right to abortion is both scorned and praised

The Hindu  

Activists and politicians are marking the one-year anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court ruling that overturned a nationwide right to abortion with a range of reactions that vary from praise and protests. “I’m absolutely livid that people think that they can interfere with medical decisions between a woman and her doctor,” said Lynn Rust, of Silver Springs, Maryland, at a …

Malpractice lawsuits over denied abortion care may be on the horizon
1 year, 9 months ago

Malpractice lawsuits over denied abortion care may be on the horizon

Salon  

A year after the overturning of Roe v. Wade, many physicians and hospitals in the states that have restricted abortion reportedly are refusing to end the pregnancies of women facing health-threatening complications out of fear they might face criminal prosecution or loss of their medical license. Related How I successfully defended abortion after Dobbs "We will absolutely see medical malpractice …

One year after the fall of Roe v. Wade, abortion care has become a patchwork of confusing state laws
1 year, 9 months ago

One year after the fall of Roe v. Wade, abortion care has become a patchwork of confusing state laws

Salon  

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. In the past year, women's rights organizations and women's health advocates have brought numerous legal challenges to restrictive abortion laws. As a result, physicians are choosing to leave states with the …

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