“Congress never delegated to the states the ability to just change the eligibility requirements and withhold Title X funds from entities for reasons that are wholly unrelated to the quality of care that they provide,” said Janel George, director of federal reproductive rights and health for the National Women’s Law Center.
Republican lawmakers on Capitol Hill are debating privately whether to keep pushing contraception restrictions and other reproductive health-care riders—poison pills for Democrats.
On Thursday the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals dismissed the case of Tamesha Means, a Michigan woman who had argued a Catholic-affiliated hospital was negligent in following religious directives in treating her miscarriage.
A raft of new restrictions affecting Florida's abortion clinics translate into less care and more fear among the state's providers and prospective patients.
The U.S. District Court in the Western District of Wisconsin ruled Thursday that the state must pay the money to Planned Parenthood of Wisconsin, Planned Parenthood Federation of America, and Affiliated Medical Services, also known as Milwaukee Women’s Medical Services.
New York's Democratic lawmakers have attempted to pass legislation that would amend the state’s law prohibiting abortion care after 24 weeks to include an exception “when necessary to protect a woman’s life or health.”
I gathered my courage and asked her why she didn’t think women were capable of making serious decisions. I told her that I had an abortion in my 20s, and I had thought long and hard about it. I didn’t need a state-sanctioned speech or waiting period to help me make my decision.
The center will offer "abortion reversal," a concept based on a 2012 study that claimed that medication abortions, a two-pill regimen, were reversed among four of six women included in the study. The American Congress of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) has questioned the veracity of the 2012 study.
Though the Florida senator has on several occasions broken from the Republican Party to support efforts to combat the virus, his push to respond to the crisis has not included extending abortion care to those who contract Zika and may want to end their pregnancy.
