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Reproductive Rights
Some Worry SCOTUS Mifepristone Ruling Could Offer Roadmap for Future Challenges
Legal scholar Michele Goodwin discusses the anti-abortion movement’s playbook of attacks on reproductive health care.
Experts Say Contraception Is Still a Battlefront in War on Reproductive Rights
“I think from ‘Dobbs,’ it's very obvious that contraception is at risk,” said one health law and bioethics expert.
SCOTUS Blocks Mifepristone Challenge, Keeping Abortion Medication Legal for Now
The high court ruled that the challengers to the FDA approval of mifepristone lacked standing to make their case.
Hundreds of Arizona Doctors Urge Voters to Back Abortion Rights Amendment
“Every person should be able to make their own decisions” regarding abortion, the doctors wrote.
Poll Shows Most South Dakota Voters Back Abortion Rights Ballot Amendment
South Dakota currently bans abortion at all stages of pregnancy, with no exceptions for rape or incest.
GOP Senators Block Bill to Enshrine Contraception Protections
Republicans filibustered the advancement of the bill, which would have codified the right to access birth control.
Arizona Organizers Are Putting Abortion Front and Center
Arizona for Abortion Access wants to destigmatize open discussion of abortion in their ballot measure campaign.
TX Supreme Court Rules Ban on Abortions in Medical Emergencies Will Continue
The ruling means physicians must wait until patients are dangerously ill before terminating their pregnancies.
Louisiana Banned Abortion Pills. It Also Faces a Maternal Mortality Crisis.
Instead of addressing sky-high rates of pregnancy-related death, Louisiana lawmakers criminalized abortion pills.
Texas GOP Platform States “Abortion Is Not Healthcare, It Is Homicide”
Reproductive rights advocates warn that the party may push the death penalty on those who obtain abortion care.