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Legal Workers Protest After Woman Forced to Give Birth in Brooklyn Courtroom
“Arraignments have become a place where people now die in cuffs and give birth in cuffs,” said one legal advocate.
Battle Over Medication Abortion Threatens to Revert US Back to 19th Century
SCOTUS has temporarily paused a Fifth Circuit Court ruling that echoed the Comstock Act of 1873, an anti-obscenity law.
Absence of the Word “Black” in Black Maternal Health Bills Concerns Advocates
Advocates worry that the changes attempt to avoid anti-DEI attacks at the expense of making legislation less effective.
Decades of Stigmatization Fueled Growing Threat of Pregnancy Criminalization
States are weaponizing unrelated laws – or even rejected bills – to police pregnancy.
Temporary Supreme Court Stay Restores Mail Access to Mifepristone for 1 Week
A court had previously blocked an FDA rule allowing telehealth prescriptions for the abortion drug.
US Appeals Court Ruling Targets Access to Abortion Medication
“Louisiana’s legal attack on mifepristone shamelessly packaged lies and propaganda," an ACLU senior attorney said.
Reproductive Health Care Restrictions May Exacerbate Health Care Shortages
In some states, abortion bans have definitively led to an exodus of OB-GYNs and maternal fetal medicine specialists.
Some States Are Boosting Reproductive Health Access, Maternal Health, Child Care
Meanwhile, other states with already strict abortion bans continue to pass and advance new restrictions.
Georgia Woman Charged With Murder After Attempted Abortion
“It’s mind-blowing that she got charged with that over something like this,” a friend of the woman said.
Sen. Josh Hawley’s Bill Would Undo Federal Approval of Mifepristone Nationwide
Bills in Alaska, Kentucky, Oklahoma, Mississippi, South Dakota, and West Virginia also target medication abortion.