Can states limit abortion and gender-affirming treatments outside their borders? But now there's a new twist in a broader Republican strategy: Representatives in multiple states are pushing bills that would attempt to limit what residents can and can't do beyond state lines. The Associated Press reports that Coleman's bill is "among at least 17 bills restricting or banning abortion filed …
As is widely known by now, the anti-abortion law that took effect in Texas last month set a new standard for malicious attacks on women’s reproductive health rights. “By eliminating safe and legal options, they only force abortion care underground with potentially devastating consequences,” Melaney Linton, the head of the Houston-area Planned Parenthood unit, testified in Pitman’s court. Pitman observed …
A Louisiana clinic struggles to absorb the surge created by Texas' new abortion law Enlarge this image toggle caption Sarah McCammon/NPR Sarah McCammon/NPR The day before a federal judge blocked enforcement of Texas' restrictive new abortion law, the parking lot of Hope Medical Group for Women in Shreveport, La., was filled with Texas license plates. "I drove 6 hours and …