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Most Americans want health exceptions in abortion bans. Political infighting keeps blocking them.
The vast majority of Americans — 82%, according to a recent Marist poll — support allowing abortions at any stage of pregnancy to protect the life or health of the pregnant person.
Legislators in 49 states ask SCOTUS to preserve access to abortion pill
A group of more than 600 Democratic legislators from 49 states have signed an amicus brief to the U.S. Supreme Court urging the justices to overturn an appellate court decision that would roll back access to mifepristone, one of two drugs used to safely terminate early pregnancies and treat miscarriages. The list includes Pa. Rep. […]
Male anti-abortion religious leaders mull murder charges for pregnant people at national event
An all-male panel of anti-abortion religious leaders from around the country met Friday night to discuss the strategies that should be used to end abortion in every state at any stage of pregnancy, without exceptions for rape and incest, and with criminal punishment for the pregnant person in line with existing criminal penalties for murder, […]
Operation Save America anti-abortion event offers mixed messages of calls to violence
Protesters filled several blocks of sidewalk outside A Preferred Women’s Health Center of Atlanta on Friday morning, the fourth day of protests there this week. Many wore T-shirts and held signs to declare which side they were on, and several congregated near the parking lot entrance to speak into microphones and tell any abortion clinic […]
National abortion ban eyed as group marks ‘Siege of Atlanta’ protests 35 years ago
Members of a national anti-abortion religious organization called Operation Save America are in Atlanta this week to protest at a local abortion clinic and to discuss new strategies for achieving a national prohibition on abortion at any stage of pregnancy. Operation Save America began as Operation Rescue in 1986 and became more well known in […]
Study shows sharp increases in maternal deaths over two decades
Researchers touted it as the first study to provide such maternal mortality calculations for every state.
Appeals court judges embrace anti-abortion speculation
Mifepristone remains legal and on the market as the case winds its way through the legal system.
Post-Roe abortion bans force pregnant people with life-threatening complications to travel
Idaho woman traveled to Oregon to terminate pregnancy with fatal fetal anomalies.
Physicians react to ruling placing abortion pill use in jeopardy
'Any delay in abortion care is unnecessary and cruel, and it’s a dangerous precedent to deny access to a safe medication that science tells us is safe,' a physician said.
Ending a pregnancy in 14 states leaves few options. Some are looking to Europe and India for help
States with abortion bans struggle to stop mailed abortion pills from overseas.
Pa.’s Shapiro among Dem governors joining reproductive rights alliance
Coalition commits to expanding access as other states introduce more restrictions.