In a key victory for supporters of abortion rights, organizers behind the effort to enshrine abortion rights in Missouri’s constitution announced Friday that they had secured enough signatures for the proposed amendment to go before voters in November. It’s part of the groundswell of such voter-led initiatives to improve abortion access in several states. Earlier last week, abortion rights organizers in South Dakota said that they likewise had surpassed the number of signatures required for a...
New York is suing an anti-abortion group and almost a dozen pregnancy counseling centers for allegedly promoting an unproven method to reverse medication abortions
By Makenzie Huber, South Dakota Searchlight Hundreds of phone calls this week that the South Dakota secretary of state has labeled a “scam” are originating from an anti-abortion group seeking to disqualify an abortion-rights ballot measure. A petition was submitted last week to the Secretary of State’s Office with enough signatures to place the measure on the Nov. 5 ballot, but the signatures must undergo a validation process. Earlier this year, the legislature and Gov. Kristi Noem passed...
Moji Alawode-El was in her early 20s and knew she wanted to have an abortion after she found out she was unexpectedly pregnant in 2003. “I was poor, I was pregnant, I didn’t want to be,” she told Jezebel recently. But when Alawode-El, who now works with Abortion Access Front, went looking to get a pregnancy test from a medical facility to confirm her pregnancy, she wound up at an anti-abortion crisis pregnancy center. A CPC in the Washington Heights neighborhood of Manhattan drew her in with the...
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(The Center Square) — Florida will beef up its efforts to stem human trafficking after legislation was signed into law on Monday. Gov. Ron DeSantis signed House Bill 7063, a bill that will make important updates on how Florida combats human trafficking and extends the lifetime of the statewide Council on Human Trafficking within the Department of Legal Affairs. Under the new law, rest area service plazas, emergency rooms, massage parlors, strip clubs or other...
An Icelandic bioethicist admitted that her country does not offer many positive representations of life with Down syndrome, allowing people to remain fixed on negative, outdated stereotypes of what raising a child with a disability is like.
Waiting in a long post office line with the latest shipment of “abortion aftercare kits,” Kimra Luna got a text. A woman who’d taken abortion pills three weeks earlier was worried about bleeding—and disclosing the cause to a doctor. “Bleeding doesn’t mean you need to go in,” Luna responded on the encrypted messaging app Signal. “Some people bleed on and off for a month." It was a typically busy afternoon for Luna, a doula and reproductive care activist in a state with some of the strictest...
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