“Today’s ruling acknowledges that these regulations do nothing to protect public health while imposing new burdens and uncertainty on health care providers and the diverse communities they serve,” said Nancy Northup, president and CEO of the Center for Reproductive Rights.
Before the Winston-Salem Journal published a five-part series on North Carolina’s eugenics program in 2002, few had ever heard of the issue of coerced sterilization in the state, even though it was hiding in plain sight.
The case of Amanda Mellet, who had to leave Ireland to get an abortion due to a fatal fetal condition, has created a roadmap for advocates to call out the prohibition and criminalization of abortion by any country as a violation of human rights.
Pence was among the Trump administration officials who told March for Life attendees that scientific advances had helped their cause, despite the outright rejection of medical consensus by the anti-choice movement.
Though the U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that “spousal consent” requirements are unconstitutional, anti-choice state lawmakers continue to push the measures.
Learn what’s going on in your state, and advocate for your rights and the rights of your community so that nobody is left behind, say reproductive rights advocates.
Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich last year demanded that Camelback Family Planning turn over medical documents about the clinic’s procurement and disposal of fetal tissue, and subpoenaed the clinic director to testify about patient records.
If abortion care had been treated like any other medical care, the atrocities that took place at Kermit Gosnell's medical office could have been avoided, and the women of West Philadelphia who were treated by him could have sought care from competent professionals instead.
"Trump took the oath, but he didn't take the steps necessary to ensure that he and his family’s business interests comply with the Constitution and other federal statutes,” said Anthony D. Romero, executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union.
