AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A federal judge ordered Texas to suspend the most restrictive abortion law in the U.S., calling it an “offensive deprivation” of a constitutional right by banning most abortions in the nation’s second-most populous state since September….
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Biden calls on U.S. Supreme Court to protect abortion rights
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Joe Biden’s administration urged the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday not to overturn the landmark 1973 Roe v. Wade ruling that legalized abortion nationwide in an upcoming case concerning a restrictive Mississippi law.FILE PHOTO: Storm clouds…
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Mexican Supreme Court Decriminalizes Abortion in Historic Shift
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – Mexico’s Supreme Court unanimously ruled on Tuesday that penalizing abortion is unconstitutional, a major victory for advocates of women’s health and human rights, just as parts of the United States enact tougher laws against the practice….
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8 Celebrities Who Have Openly Discussed Having An Abortion
Stevie Nicks In an interview with The Guardian, Nicks opened up about how abortion rights should have been her “generation’s fight.” She revealed that she chose to have an abortion in 1979, when Fleetwood Mac was at its peak. “If…
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Texas's near-total abortion ban takes effect after Supreme Court inaction
(Reuters) -A Texas ban on abortions after six weeks of pregnancy took effect on Wednesday after the U.S. Supreme Court did not act on a request by abortion rights groups to block the law, which would prohibit the vast majority…
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Australias surgical abortion rate is dropping by 5.1% per year as access to abortion drugs improves
The rate of surgical abortions nationally has declined by 5.1% per year since the listing of mifepristone/misoprostol (medical abortion) on the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme in 2013, according to research published by the Medical Journal of Australia. “It is difficult to…
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Federal Appeals Court Blocks Sweeping Missouri Abortion Law
A federal appeals court panel on Wednesday blocked Missouri from enforcing a sweeping state abortion law that bans the procedures at or after eight weeks of pregnancy. A three-judge panel of the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in St….
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Texas Governor Signs Law Banning Abortions as Early as 6 Weeks
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Republican Gov. Greg Abbott on Wednesday signed a law that bans abortions in Texas before many women even know they are pregnant and differs singularly from similar efforts nationwide: leaving enforcement to private citizens, who can…
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FDA Lifts In-Person Dispensing Requirement for Mifepristone
The Food and Drug Administration has lifted in-person dispensing requirements for mifepristone when used for medical termination of early pregnancy. In an April 12, 2021, letter to the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists and the Society of Maternal-Fetal Medicine,…
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Only 50% of CO clinicians are willing and able to counsel women on abortion
Pregnant patients in Colorado may be told about parenting and adoption, but not abortion. This is according to a new study led by Kate Coleman-Minahan of the University of Colorado College of Nursing published in the Journal of Midwifery and…
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