NHPR, April 25, 2012 by Sam Evans-Brown All eyes were on the State Senate today, where lawmakers voted down a bevy of bills that would regulate abortion and allow employers to opt out of covering contraception. State lawmakers have traditionally rejected such measures, but the issue has become a point of friction between the house […]
April 17, 2012
Seattle Times, April 17, 2012 by Rebecca Boone The first challenge to the constitutionality of the so-called fetal pain anti-abortion laws enacted in several states has come from an unlikely place. So has the second. BOISE, Idaho — The first challenge to the constitutionality of the so-called fetal pain anti-abortion laws enacted in several states […]
April 16, 2012
Clarion Ledger, April16, 2012 by The Associated Press Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant on Monday signed a bill putting new requirements on doctors who work at the state’s only abortion clinic. It becomes law July 1. It says anyone performing abortions in an abortion facility must be an obstetrician-gynecologist with admitting privileges at a local hospital. […]
April 13, 2012
BBC News, April 13, 2012 by Paul Mason Outside an abortion clinic in Toledo, Ohio, the protesters gather silently. They clutch crucifixes. Some kneel in the road. Inside it is quiet, calm and the facilities are pretty basic. Because of the protesters, most mainstream hospitals have stopped providing abortions, gynaecologist Dr Martin Ruddock tells me. […]
April 13, 2012
Nashua Telegraph, April 13, 2012 by Kevin Landrigan CONCORD – Supporters of several bills to ban abortions fought against being labeled anti-women, while opponents told lawmakers they risked fouling New Hampshire’s reputation as a state that defends individual rights. These were the philosophical markers laid down as a state Senate committee took hours of testimony […]
April 13, 2012
RH Reality Check, April 13, 2012 by Rachel Benson Gold and Elizabeth Nash In the first three months of 2012, legislators introduced 944 provisions related to reproductive health and rights in 45 of the 46 legislatures that have convened this year. Half of these provisions would restrict abortion access. So far, 75 abortion restrictions have […]
April 12, 2012
The Daily Beast, April 12, 2012 by Allison Yarrow Despite its name, critics derided the Women’s Health and Safety Act that Arizona Governor Jan Brewer signed into law today as cruel, dangerous, and hostile to women—likely to deter many Arizona women from seeking an abortion, and to distress those who nonetheless go through with one. […]
April 12, 2012
RH Reality Check Tumblr Blog, April 12, 2012 Virginia is now the 8th state with forced ultrasounds before abortion. When it passed its law, it joined Alabama, Arizona, Florida, Kansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Texas. Texas has the harshest forced ultrasound law currently in effect. As Andrea Grimes reported, “Texas has the most extreme law that’s […]
April 6, 2012
The Colorado Statesman, April 6, 2012 by Peter Marcus A measure that would offer prosecutors a tool in charging suspects with the same violent crimes against both a pregnant mother and her unborn child is still alive, albeit on life support. House Bill 1130, sponsored by Rep. Janak Joshi, R-Colorado Springs, and Sen. Shawn Mitchell, […]
April 5, 2012
RH Reality Check, April 5, 2012 by Jessica Mason Pieklo Among the new restrictions appearing in anti-choice bills nationwide, it is the medical malpractice liability shields that have the potential to alter, perhaps permanently, women’s relationship with the civil justice system. In both Kansas and Arizona measures are advancing that exempt doctors from medical malpractice suits should […]
April 5, 2012
RH Reality Check, April 5, 2012 by by Jessica Mason Pieklo Among the new restrictions appearing in anti-choice bills nationwide, it is the medical malpractice liability shields that have the potential to alter, perhaps permanently, women’s relationship with the civil justice system. In both Kansas and Arizona measures are advancing that exempt doctors from medical malpractice suits […]
April 4, 2012
The Philly Post, April 4, 2012 by Jessica Goldschmidt Ah, how the rings in the GOP circus of woman-hating cruelty do expand. As if the Amazing Sanctimonious Santorum weren’t enough of a headliner, with his mind-melding feats of lame-brained moralizing (not to mention his Supreme and Startling Selective Memory); as if the All-Male-Birth-Control-Panel-Kickline-Revue didn’t just […]
April 4, 2012
Kaiser Health News, April 4, 2012 by Jeffrey Hess (NPR) The Mississippi legislature has passed a bill that will require any doctor performing abortions in the state to be a board-certified OB-GYN with admitting privileges at a local hospital. The change could make staffing the state’s sole abortion clinic very difficult, since most of the […]
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