After President Biden issued an executive order protecting access to reproductive healthcare on Friday, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services announced guidance to clarify that emergency medical care includes abortion services.
Donald Trump portrayed himself as a “protector” of women and claimed that, if elected, women won’t be “thinking about abortion,” but women are fleeing from him.
Thurman died after waiting 20 hours for emergency care under the state’s abortion ban. Sen. Ron Wyden demanded records to review to determine whether the hospital violated the law. “It’s not even a question,” one expert said.
"That story was the personification of the Black maternal health crisis," Harris campaign co-chair Sen. Laphonza Butler said of Harris’ retelling of Amber Nicole Thurman’s death at a Georgia campaign event.
We are celebrating the fact that Montanans will actually get the chance to vote on a measure that will protect Montanans’ right to abortion.
At least two women in Georgia died after they couldn’t access legal abortions and timely medical care in their state, ProPublica has found. This is one of their stories.
In Missouri and Nebraska, abortion opponents unsuccessfully attempted to run out the clock with last-minute court challenges to keep voters from weighing in on abortion ballot measures. A court challenge in South Dakota threatens to invalidate an abortion rights amendment well after voting gets underway. In Florida, advocates are suing a state agency they accuse of using taxpayer funds to spread false and misleading claims about a proposed abortion rights constitutional amendment.
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This week, courts in Missouri and Nebraska shut down last-ditch attempts to keep abortion from the ballot and the ACLU sued a Florida agency over a taxpayer-funded marketing campaign.
By centering “freedom” in her campaign, Harris invoked a key element of Black identity and spirituality rooted in the historic struggle for liberation by formerly enslaved people.
Election police question citizens who signed a petition."This is what state-authorized election interference looks like," said the ACLU of Florida.
The percentage of people who say they’ve tried to end a pregnancy without medical assistance increased after the Supreme Court overturned Roe vs. Wade.
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