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Modern-day 鈥楥omstocks鈥 look to police travel, information as another strategy to end abortion
Mark Lee Dickson says he鈥檚 been home maybe once in the two years since the U.S. Supreme Court vanished federal abortion rights in Dobbs v. Jackson Women鈥檚 Health Organization. The 38-year-old director of Right to Life of East Texas in Longview has been on an endless road trip trying to set legal traps for people […]
Abortion surveillance isn鈥檛 new but monitoring has increased post Dobbs, activists say
Abortion surveillance is something former President Donald Trump, the presumptive Republican nominee for president,聽has said聽is up to states. But for abortion providers and advocates, surveillance and monitoring by anti-abortion activists has long been the reality. And post-Dobbs many states are actively trying to expand聽government surveillance. 鈥淭here is a lot of confusion in our patient population […]
Anti-abortion groups say Supreme Court鈥檚 mifepristone ruling won鈥檛 deter them
In the aftermath of the U.S. Supreme Court鈥檚 unanimous ruling last week to maintain current access to the abortion medication mifepristone, abortion-rights advocates and opponents vowed to continue their respective battles over the drug. Mifepristone is one of two drugs used to treat miscarriages and terminate a pregnancy during the first trimester, and is the […]
On abortion, advocates and opponents unite on policies to address root causes
Editor鈥檚 note: This story is the聽third聽in a series about a group of people from Wisconsin trying to come up with policies to address abortion and its root causes that could be applied nationwide. Their larger goal is to find common ground on one of the most divisive issues in America.聽 MADISON, Wis. 鈥 The Starts […]
Where is the common ground for abortion-rights opponents and supporters?
Editor鈥檚 note: This story is the second in a聽series聽about a group of people from Wisconsin trying to come up with policies to address abortion and its root causes that could be applied nationwide. Their larger goal is to find common ground on one of the most divisive issues in America. MADISON, Wis. 鈥 For the […]
Can 14 strangers from Wisconsin help America find common ground on abortion?
Editor鈥檚 note: This is the first in a series about a group of Wisconsin residents trying to come up with policies to address abortion and its root causes that could be applied nationwide. MADISON, Wis. 鈥 Thomas Lang, 61, is white, deeply Catholic and opposes abortion. 鈥淓ach one of us has a beginning, and that […]
Hundreds protest outside the U.S. Supreme Court to keep abortion medication accessible
WASHINGTON 鈥 As the enormous yellow banner unfurled in front of the steps of the U.S. Supreme Court Tuesday morning, Laura Clime-Coates turned to her 9-year-old daughter and said, 鈥淭hose are the names of people who agree with us.鈥 On the sign, titled 鈥淲e the People Support Medication Abortion,鈥 were what activists estimated to be […]
Planned Parenthood affiliates train abortion doulas to reduce stress for patients
A 39-year-old single mother of two got up extra early on a recent Wednesday morning, hoping to be one of the first outside the Planned Parenthood clinic near Phoenix, Arizona. The upside of not telling anyone about her abortion was that she wasn鈥檛 going to have to explain herself. The downside was that she couldn鈥檛 […]
Alabama passes IVF protections while red states still push 鈥榩ersonhood鈥 abortion laws
All but six state legislatures are聽now in session, and abortion-related bills continue to be introduced, especially in states where the procedure is already banned. It can be hard to monitor them all, so States Newsroom鈥檚 Reproductive Rights Today team will track certain bills that could become law in their respective states in a biweekly legislative […]
Telehealth abortions on the rise since Dobbs, new report shows
Researchers studying national abortion trends found that in the 15 months since Roe v. Wade fell, abortion rates remained elevated despite more limited access throughout the U.S., according to the Society of Family Planning鈥檚聽latest #WeCount report聽published Wednesday. Partially explaining this is a rise in people having abortions via telemedicine, Ushma Upadhyay, co-chair of #WeCount, told […]
Researchers call for more abortion studies to be retracted
Health and science experts published a聽commentary in the British Medical Journal聽on Tuesday calling for the retraction of four older abortion-related studies that, despite documented flaws, have influenced major anti-abortion decisions over the past 20 years, including the 2022 U.S. Supreme Court decision that overturned federal abortion rights. The commentary comes the same month academic publisher […]
Retracted studies the latest in a decadeslong abortion-science fight
Chris Adkins is worried. The Georgia pharmaceutical sciences professor who sparked an investigation into scientific studies that led to recent聽news-making retractions聽is worried about the 鈥渁ppropriate legal action鈥 researchers have vaguely told media outlets they鈥檙e pursuing. But even more than being sued, Adkins is worried it might be too late to correct the scientific record about […]