"More than 50 percent of Black girls and women of reproductive age live in states with little to no abortion access, according to a new report.
The analysis from National Partnership for Women & Families and In Our Own Voice: National Black Women’s Reproductive Justice Agenda found that nearly 7 million Black women ages 15-49 live in the 26 states that have banned or are likely to ban abortion."
As someone who keeps her children (born and unborn) away from data detection, I know how catastrophic the #MOMS bill’s national #pregnancy database is.
But I am also a scholar who studies #NASA, so I know a government handout bill when I see one.
Look past the website to Title II, section 1a, eligibility for government grants for maternal support.
This is a #handout for pro-life nonprofits, with restrictions against funding for orgs like #PlannedParenthood , dressed up as maternal support.
"Through our phones, we are under perpetual surveillance by companies that buy and sell data about what kind of person we are, whom we might vote for, what we might purchase, and what we might be nudged into doing."
"Now, Davis has disclosed his former partner’s abortion to a state district court in Texas, asking for the power to investigate what his lawyer characterizes as potentially illegal activity in a state where almost all abortions are banned."
Monte Francis speaks to Elizabeth Sepper, a law professor at the University of Texas and a nationally recognized scholar of religious liberty, health law, and equality, about #Florida 's ban on most #abortions after six weeks of #pregnancy, which went into effect Wednesday. She says that women across the socio-economic spectrum are going to find that in crisis their lives and #health will be put at risk because of the ban.
"Abortion funds were already straining to meet the need of patients. Now, they must raise more money for people traveling longer distances, later in pregnancy when abortions can be more complicated and expensive. This is the post-Dobbs reality: For all the optimism surrounding state ballot measures in November, abortions are increasingly out of reach or financially ruinous for large numbers of people."
“Cases of infant syphilis have been soaring recently in the United States. Earlier this month, the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) urged syphilis screening for all pregnant women.”
In some #pregnancy emergencies where #abortion is required, there isn’t even a chance the baby will be born. Where #Idaho may argue that is it providing medical care with lifesaving exceptions, it amounted to a potentially fatal game of semantics that increases the likelihood that places like Idaho become #maternity care deserts.
"Earlier this month on the Amicus podcast, Dahlia Lithwick spoke to emergency medicine physician Dara Kass about the health care that happens in the gap between the federal requirement for stabilizing care and the local laws in Idaho and other states that have enacted near-total abortion bans post-Dobbs. Their conversation has been edited and condensed for clarity. You can listen to the whole episode here."
"The extent to which conversation has been silenced is evident from a STAT survey of 100 hospitals — two from each state — asking to speak with physicians about changes in maternal health care since the Dobbs ruling. Only six institutions made physicians available to speak about their work, and five of them were in states where abortion access remains protected."