Abortion
Before and after Dobbs, questions of ‘when and where’ affect abortion access
DakotaRei Frausto was 17 years old and 12 weeks pregnant when they had to travel 11 hours by car from San Antonio, Texas, to New Mexico to terminate a pregnancy after contraception failed them. The appointment was April 1, 2022, about six months after Senate Bill 8 initially took effect in Texas, banning abortions after […]
U.S. Supreme Court schedules March 26 oral arguments in abortion pill access case
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Supreme Court will hear oral arguments on March 26 in the case that could significantly curtail access to a prescription drug used for both abortions and miscarriage care. The case centers on when and how patients can access mifepristone, a pharmaceutical the U.S. Food and Drug Administration originally approved in 2000. […]
On Roe anniversary, abortion opponents look to White House to fast-track national ban
Falling snow and flight delays thinned this year’s anti-abortion March for Life in Washington, D.C., on Friday, but did not deter the most impatient activists in the movement, those unsatisfied until the entire U.S. map is red with abortion bans. “I’m not okay with abortion states and non-abortion states. I want an abortion-free America,” said […]
Members of U.S. Senate, advocates discuss problems in states that limit abortion access
WASHINGTON — Abortion rights advocates and Democrats in the U.S. Senate pressed for a return to legal, safe access throughout the country during a briefing Wednesday. The nearly three-hour conversation, held in the Capitol Visitors Center, featured doctors speaking about the challenges they and their patients face in states that have implemented restrictions on abortion […]
Democratic senator files bill asking for rape, incest exceptions in Kentucky’s abortion ban
FRANKFORT — Calling Kentucky’s near-total abortion ban “dangerous” and “cruel,” Sen. David Yates, D-Louisville, introduced a bill Tuesday to add exceptions for rape and incest.? The bill will at least make it to a committee, the president of the Republican-controlled and staunchly anti-abortion Senate told Renee Shaw on Kentucky Tonight. Senate President Robert Stivers said […]
Abortion foe Sen. Westerfield proposes sweeping new supports for Kentucky families
A Republican legislator from Western Kentucky has filed a sweeping measure to provide more support for families through a major financial boost to child care, education, housing, health services and other measures aimed at pregnant individuals and women with children. Senate Bill 34, filed Tuesday by Sen. Whitney Westerfield, carries a $551 million price tag […]
Budget, charter schools and abortion: What to watch for as Kentucky legislature convenes
Lawmakers will gather in Frankfort Jan. 2? to begin work on a state budget in a year when they will face voters at the polls. The 60-day session will see the Republican-led General Assembly consider constitutional amendments to put on the November ballot, as well as pass a two-year state spending plan. It will also […]
Physician says residency programs must reassess post-Roe training for miscarriage, abortion care
More than a year after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe, many have raised concerns about training for obstetrician-gynecologists, particularly in states with civil and criminal penalties for providers if they perform abortions. But researchers from the Person-Centered Reproductive Health Program at the University of California San Francisco have found there is reason to be […]
‘Like trying to run a clinic on a foundation of quicksand,’ Maryland abortion provider says
Morgan Nuzzo, an advanced practice clinician nurse-midwife, started Partners in Abortion Care in Maryland about a year ago with Dr. Diane Horvath, an OB-GYN who specializes in complex family planning. The clinic is among the few in the country that provides abortions in the third trimester of pregnancy. Abortions that late in pregnancy are rare […]
Challenge to Kentucky’s abortion ban ends after pregnancy becomes nonviable
Lawyers for a Kentucky woman challenging the state’s abortion ban asked that the case be dismissed on Monday, a week after the fetus lost cardiac activity.? This came a week after the Kentucky woman who sued for the right to abortion announced her pregnancy was no longer viable. At the time she filed her lawsuit, […]
Fear and confusion over abortion access persist as SCOTUS takes its first post-Dobbs case
This year will end on a major cliffhanger for abortion access. Last November, anti-abortion activists via a powerful conservative Christian law firm asked a federal court to effectively ban or widely restrict the abortion drug mifepristone. Finally on Wednesday, the U.S. Supreme Court agreed to take the case, making Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine v. U.S. […]
Kentucky woman who sued for right to abortion now carrying embryo with no ‘cardiac activity’
Four days after a Kentucky woman sued for the right to an abortion, her lawyers said the embryo she carried “no longer had cardiac activity” as of Monday morning. A spokesperson for the American Civil Liberties Union of Kentucky declined to say whether Jane Doe, as the woman is called in her suit, will now […]