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| Feb 28, 2024 | Health | Pregnancy care was always lacking in jails. It could get worse | Renuka Rayasam | (TNS) KFF Health News
It was about midnight in June 2022 when police officers showed up at Angela Collier’s door and told her that someone anonymously requested a welfare check because they thought she might have had a misc... |
| Feb 14, 2024 | National Politics | Mental health emerges as a dividing line in abortion rights initiatives planned for state ballots | By CHRISTINE FERNANDO (Associated Press)
CHICAGO (AP) — The weeks after Kaniya Harris found out she was pregnant were among the hardest in her life.
Final exams were fast approaching for the college junior. Her doctors told her she had an o... |
| Jan 26, 2024 | Inside the Trust Women abortion clinic in Wichita, Kansas, which saw a spike in out-of-state patients after Roe was overturned | Health Inside the Trust Women abortion clinic in Wichita, Kansas, which saw a spike in out-of-state patients after Roe was overturned
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| Dec 29, 2023 | Editorials | Editorial: This Supreme Court decision should be easy – keep medication abortion accessible | The fate of the most commonly used abortion method in the U.S., and a prime target of antiabortion politicians and activists, is now in the hands of the U.S. Supreme Court.
In 2022, the court took away the constitutional right to abortion b... |
| Dec 15, 2023 | Kate Cox is one of hundreds in Texas denied abortions despite serious health risks, data show | A Texas woman’s unsuccessful legal fight for an abortion on medical emergency grounds drew nationwide headlines in recent days, but her plight is hardly a rare occurrence amid vague and highly restrictive state laws in the post-Roe era. Kat... |
| Dec 13, 2023 | Exceptions to abortion restrictions often fail people like Kate Cox whose babies are sure to die | Imagine being in the midst of your pregnancy, and you learn that your baby is unlikely to live for more than a few fleeting moments after birth. There is no cure for their condition. Nothing can prevent their death.
Most people think they w... |
| Oct 27, 2023 | Health | Medical exceptions to abortion bans often exclude mental health conditions | Nada Hassanein | (TNS) Stateline.org
If you are in need of support, call or text the National Maternal Mental Health Hotline at 1-833-TLC-MAMA (1-833-852-6262) for free, confidential and 24/7 support, or dial 988 for the Suicide & Crisi... |
| Oct 24, 2023 | Health | Abortion coverage is limited or unavailable at a quarter of large workplaces | By Rachana Pradhan, KFF Health News
About a quarter of large U.S. employers heavily restrict coverage of legal abortions or don’t cover them at all under health plans for their workers, according to the latest employer health benefits surve... |
| Oct 17, 2023 | Measuring the long-term cost of restricting abortion access | When Diana Greene Foster and her team at the University of California, San Francisco, started their study on the lives of women who were denied abortions in 2008, they sought to investigate a rather commonly held view: That having an aborti... |
| Aug 8, 2023 | Idaho Wants to Jail Professors for Teaching About Abortion | At Idaho’s public universities, professors who teach, discuss, or write about abortion may now face up to 14 years of imprisonment under Idaho’s abortion censorship law, the No Public Funds for Abortion Act (NPFAA). The law, which prohibits... |
| Jun 23, 2023 | Malpractice lawsuits over denied abortion care may be on the horizon | A year after the overturning of Roe v. Wade, many physicians and hospitals in the states that have restricted abortion reportedly are refusing to end the pregnancies of women facing health-threatening complications out of fear they might fa... |
| Jun 23, 2023 | Statement from Catholics for Choice President Jamie L. Manson on the One-Year Anniversary of the Supreme Court’s Overturning of Roe v. Wade | Catholics for Choice recommits to being louder than ever about our faithfully-formed beliefs in conscience, in social justice, and in religious freedom... We will continue to fight until the fundamental right to abortion is once again the l... |
| Apr 8, 2023 | Texas judge's ruling to ban mifepristone nationwide cites Wikipedia, contains pro-life talking points, and gets basic facts about abortion wrong: Experts say it's 'completely flawed' | A person looks at an Abortion Pill (RU-486) for unintended pregnancy from Mifepristone displayed on a computer on May 8, 2020, in Arlington, Virginia OLIVIER DOULIERY/AFP via Getty Images
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| Jan 4, 2023 | New FDA Rules Make It Easier To Get Medication Abortion | 382212 02: The controversial abortion pill known as RU-486, seen here as Mifeprex, is being shipped ... [+] to U.S. physicians for the first time beginning November 20, 2000 following approval of the drug by the Food and Drug Administration... |
| Nov 10, 2022 | AOC says 'it's so out of touch to imply that abortion isn't an economic issue' after reproductive rights were at the top of voters' minds in the midterms | Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) speaks in front of the U.S. Capitol on July 28, 2022. Nathan Posner/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images
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| Oct 26, 2022 | Low-wage working women bear financial brunt of denied abortions | A Texas mother of a toddler, scraping by on her husband's income, was desperate to return to work but struggling to afford child care. A young Florida warehouse worker had barely left behind a turbulent past of homelessness and abuse only t... |
| Oct 12, 2022 | How are new abortion laws affecting women in the United States? | On Wednesday, October 12 at 19:30 GMT:
It’s been more than 100 days since the United States Supreme Court ended the constitutional right to abortion. In that time, life has changed dramatically for millions of Americans when it comes to the... |
| Oct 11, 2022 | How to Get the Morning-After Pill or Abortion Medication | Would you be able to quickly obtain an emergency contraception pill or abortion pill if the need arose? In the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision striking down Roe v. Wade, millions of health care consumers have pivoted to this quest... |
| Aug 22, 2022 | The Biden-Harris administration needs to end fake abortion clinics | In the aftermath of the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, President Biden signed an executive order directing federal agencies to consider ways to protect abortion access. Three weeks later, at the first meeting of the new I... |
| Aug 11, 2022 | Companies Not Changing Health Benefits Despite Roe V. Wade Ruling, Study Finds | A majority of companies remain quiet about Roe v. Wade. getty |
| Jul 1, 2022 | "People will die": OB-GYNs explain how ectopic pregnancy and other complications threaten lives without abortion care | When Sarah was 24, she was a newly single mother of two small children, including one with significant special health needs. Days before Mother's Day and just a few months after escaping her abusive partner, she doubled over in pain and had... |
| Jun 27, 2022 | Under new abortion laws, prenatal genetic test results can come too late | Ann was 15 weeks pregnant with her fourth child when the results of her prenatal genetic test came back last August. The test suggested that her daughter, whom she and her husband planned to name Juliet, was missing one of her two X chromos... |
| Jun 21, 2022 | These researchers study abortion in states likely to ban it. That will make their jobs even harder | Last year, Texas lawmakers passed the most restrictive abortion policy in the country. The state’s leading researchers on reproductive health care weren’t consulted when it was being crafted. But they started studying it the moment it passe... |
| May 19, 2022 | 5 ways abortion bans could hurt women in the workforce | Roe vs. Wade is all but certain to be overturned, which could effectively make abortion illegal in about half of US states. If that happens, historical data tells us that not only will this affect women personally, but it will jeopardize th... |
| Dec 1, 2021 | Supreme Court Hears Oral Arguments In Case That Could Impact Abortion Care Access For Millions | “Abortion care is an essential part of the full spectrum of reproductive health services and a common part of the reproductive life-course for many people,” said Dr. Raegan McDonald-Mosley, CEO of Power to Decide.
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| Nov 1, 2021 | As FDA Considers Easing Medication Abortion Restrictions, New Study Finds Patients Prefer Flexibility | In this photo illustration, a person looks at an Abortion Pill (RU-486) for unintended pregnancy ... [+] from Mifepristone displayed on a smartphone on May 8, 2020, in Arlington, Virginia. - One week after Sally realized she was pregnant, h... |
| Sep 21, 2021 | Over 100 Social Scientists Across the Country File Amicus Brief Urging U.S. Supreme Court to Find Mississippi’s 15-Week Abortion Ban Unconstitutional | "The Mississippi ban will increase the considerable barriers to obtaining an abortion and ultimately put abortion out of reach for millions across the country. We urge the Supreme Court to reject this law." - Dr. Diana Greene Fost... |
| Apr 8, 2021 | ANSIRH Study Shows Dispensing Medication Abortion Pills at Pharmacy is Safe, Effective, and Satisfying to Patients | “Pharmacists play a critical role in health care delivery. This study shows that they can safely and effectively dispense mifepristone, and that removing or modifying the REMS to allow for this provision would eliminate a significant barrie... |
| Sep 24, 2020 | The FDA approved the abortion pill 20 years ago. It’s time to make it available via telehealth | Twenty years ago this month, the Food and Drug Administration approved a medication destined to become known as the abortion pill. Mifepristone, then called RU486, was going to change everything about abortion — it would expand access and r... |
| Feb 29, 2020 | Women Overwhelmingly Don’t Regret Abortion, Research Finds. But Denying Them Care Is Costly | LOS ANGELES, CA, UNITED STATES - 2019/05/21: An activist seen holding a placard that says I Don't ... [+] Regret My Abortion during a protest against restrictions on abortions after Alabama passed the most restrictive abortion bans in the U... |
| Dec 5, 2018 | When women are denied an abortion, their children fare worse than peers | What will happen if Americans lose the constitutional right to abortion? Not all women who need an abortion would find a way to get one. Many would carry the unwanted pregnancy to term and give birth.
The discourse around abortion tends to ... |
| May 15, 2018 | Millions of American Women Live More Than 100 Miles from an Abortion Clinic | One in four women in the United States will make the decision to end a pregnancy in her lifetime. The journey to access that important, life-changing health care, however, may be much longer and cumbersome than she anticipates. According to... |
| Jan 2, 2018 | 'Black Mirror' Equated the Morning-After Pill with the Abortion Pill | This post contains spoilers from the Arkangel episode of Black Mirror, Season 4.
The fourth season of Black Mirror hit Netflix on Friday and people were less than pleased with how the show portrayed emergency contraception, a form of birth ... |
| Aug 10, 2017 | Women Shoulder the Invisible Burden of Preventing Pregnancy Alone | Even though it takes two to make a baby, a study published in April in the Journal of Sex Research points out that the burden of trying to prevent a pregnancy usually unfairly falls on the woman.
Most forms of highly effective birth control... |
| Aug 31, 2016 | Ohio's Abortion Pill Restrictions Literally Made Women Sick, Study Finds | Conservative politicians often insist that their goal in passing severe abortion restrictions is to protect women's health. But new study published in PLOS Medicine, which focuses on a 2011 Ohio law that required abortion providers to follo... |
| Jan 5, 2015 | U.S. bishops take aim at sterilization | The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, shown in New Orleans in June, voted in November to tighten its rules on partnerships and collaborations between Catholic and non-Catholic health care providers. (Gerald Herbert/AP Photo)
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| Abortion ‘desert’ in US south is hurting Black women the most | In the weeks since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, an abortion desert has ballooned in the US South, where bans are hitting Black women hardest.
Across the country Black patients have an abortion rate roughly four times that of th... |
| Biden's Labor Secretary has 'serious concerns' about the economic impacts of Roe v. Wade getting potentially overturned | U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, Labor Secretary Marty Walsh, and Housing and Urban Development Secretary Marcia Fudge speak to members of the press outside the West Wing of the White House after a meeting with President Joe Bi... |
| The Supreme Court possibly nixing Roe v. Wade is the latest sign of the US neglecting women's financial and personal security | Protesters, demonstrators and activists gather in front of the U.S. Supreme Court as the justices hear arguments in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health, a case about a Mississippi law that bans most abortions after 15 weeks, on December 01, 202... |
| Overturning Roe v. Wade could have long-term financial impacts on people who are denied abortions, research shows | The Supreme Court's recent 5-4 decision to overturn Roe v. Wade and allow states to outlaw abortion could have long-lasting financial effects on those seeking the procedure, researchers have found.
Those who are unable to get an abortion an... |
| Treasury Secretary Yellen says abortion restrictions will hurt the US economy — there's significant research that proves this | Abortion-rights advocates demonstrate in front of the U.S. Supreme Court Building on May 3, 2022, in Washington, DC. Win McNamee/Getty Images
Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said restricting abortion rights could hurt the US economy.
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| Supreme Court’s overturning of Roe v. Wade will financially hurt the ‘most marginalized’ women, experts say | The Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade may cause financial hardship for many women, especially those already facing economic instability, research shows.
“It sadly affects the most marginalized women,” said Carolyn McClanahan,... |
| The cost of banning abortion is high: Many families slide into poverty when healthcare is denied | SOPA Images/Contributor/Getty Images
Most people seeking abortions are poor; not being able to afford a child is a key reason they seek the procedure.
Research shows that being denied an abortion is linked with less educational attainment, ... |
| Why abortion access is a personal finance issue, says demographer who studies the effects of unwanted pregnancy | Diana Greene Foster led The Turnaway Study, a landmark research study on the socioeconomic outcomes for Americans who are “turned away” from abortion.
Foster, a demographer and professor at the University of California San Francisco, found ... |
| Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen says banning abortion would damage the economy and 'set women back decades' | Sec. Yellen said at a Senate Banking committee hearing on Tuesday that an abortion ban "would have very damaging effects on the economy and would set women back decades." Al Drago/Associated Press
The Supreme Court seems poised to... |
