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Texas Midwife Charged With Performing Illegal Abortions
A Texas midwife has been arrested for performing illegal abortions, state Attorney General Ken Paxton said Monday. Maria Margarita Rojas,...
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Mar 181 min read
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Louisiana Women Pleads Not Guilty In Unprecedented Abortion Case
A Louisiana woman pleads not guilty Tuesday to a felony, after allegedly getting abortion pills from a New York doctor and giving them to...
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Mar 122 min read
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Abortion Providers Concerned Over Trump Plans To Stop Enforcing FACE
One morning in August 2021, Phebe Brandt was attending to patients at a Planned Parenthood facility in Philadelphia, where she works as a...
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Mar 102 min read
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Pending State Bills Would Allow Homicide Charges In Abortions
Conservative state legislators have filed a new batch of bills that would grant legal rights to fetuses and fertilized embryos. Lawmakers...
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Mar 62 min read
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NY Rejects Extradition Request For LA Doctor Sending Abortion Pills
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul rejected Louisiana’s request to extradite a doctor from her state accused of prescribing and mailing abortion...
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Feb 142 min read
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In Abortion Legal Test, NY Doctor Indicted For Sending Pills to LA
A Louisiana grand jury indicted a New York doctor for providing abortion pills to a Louisiana resident. It may be the first time...
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Feb 22 min read
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DOJ Cuts Back Prosecutions For Interfering With Abortion Clinics
The Justice Department will scale back prosecutions of demonstrators who interfere with patient access to reproductive health clinics,...
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Jan 262 min read
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Appeals Court Rules Idaho Doctors Can’t Be Cited In Abortion Referrals
A federal appeals court upheld an injunction blocking Idaho Attorney General Raúl Labrador from prosecuting medical professionals for...
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Dec 6, 20242 min read
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New State Abortion Measures Could Face Legal Action, Trump Moves
Widespread support for abortion rights defied partisan labels in last week’s election, but several of the ballot measures that voters...
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Nov 11, 20242 min read
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Abortion Rights Win In 7 States, 3 States Retain Bans
Voters in Missouri cleared the way to undo one of the nation’s most restrictive abortion bans in one of seven election victories for...
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Nov 6, 20242 min read
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How Nevada Woman Was Convicted For Having Miscarriage
When the police showed up at her door in Nevada, Patience Frazier assumed the officers had come for someone else. As a woman in uniform...
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Oct 29, 20242 min read
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Police K-9s Intercepting Abortion Pills Sent Via Mail
A tip brought a dog to the main post office in downtown Jackson, Miss. An employee there reported seeing someone in the lobby putting...
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Oct 17, 20242 min read
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Florida Threatens TV Stations Over Abortion Ad
In a move that critics are calling a flagrant abuse of power, Florida’s Department of Health is threatening to bring criminal charges...
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Oct 10, 20242 min read
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Judge Blocks Georgia Law Banning Abortion After 6 Weeks
A Georgia judge on Monday blocked a law banning abortion after about six weeks of pregnancy, finding it violated the rights to privacy...
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Oct 1, 20242 min read
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210 Women Charged In Pregnancy-Related Crimes After Roe’s End
It became more common for authorities to charge women with crimes related to their pregnancies after the fall of Roe v. Wade in 2022, a...
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Sep 26, 20242 min read
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Police Question Florida Voters Over Abortion Rights Amendment
Florida state police officers are showing up at voters’ homes to question them about signing a petition to get an abortion rights...
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Sep 10, 20242 min read
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Some States Criminalize Helping a Minor Travel For Abortions
Helping a pregnant minor travel to get a legal abortion without parental consent is now a crime in two Republican-led states, prompting...
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Aug 23, 20242 min read
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AP Investigation: ERs Turn Away or Neglect Pregnant Women in Medical Distress
In February, emergency room doctors in Texas handed a bleeding Kyleigh Thornton a pamphlet on miscarriage and told her to “let nature...
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Aug 13, 20241 min read
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New Wave Of Abortion Cases On Its Way To High Court
The Supreme Court’s decision to sidestep key legal questions in its abortion decisions sets up another showdown as early as next year....
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Jul 2, 20242 min read
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Justices Avoid Idaho Abortion Issue In First Test Of Post-Roe State Law
The Supreme Court on Thursday ducked a major abortion issue, sending a controversial Idaho law back to a lower court. For now, while the...
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Jun 27, 20242 min read
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