A bill introduced in the Senate Appropriations Committee puts the focus on reproductive rights by proposing an end to the Hyde Amendment and offering an unprecedented level of funding for Title X
Officials have been ordered to transfer minors seeking abortions to facilities outside the state — delaying their access to the procedure.
‘This directly affects a lot of people in our league as a women’s league and a league of people with uteruses,’ the union’s first vice president said.
Across a major abortion clinic network in Texas, only 10 people over six weeks of pregnancy were able to obtain an abortion.
Without Kansas as a safe haven, the Midwestern abortion desert will be bigger than the country of France.
The amicus brief filed in the United States v. Texas shows how patients and providers, even those outside of the state, have had to adjust since Texas’ six-week abortion ban went into effect.
The decision from the federal appeals court makes a pathway for the case to end up before the Supreme Court.
Whole Woman's Health, a network of abortion clinics, said it is making plans to resume abortions up to 18 weeks "as soon as possible."
The federally funded family planning program provides no- and low-cost contraception counseling and dispensation, but a Trump-era ban on mentioning abortion meant the number of providers dropped.
Americans are split on Texas’ strict new abortion ban, with roughly equal numbers supporting and opposing it, but women far more likely to disapprove of the law.