[Most of this info is also available as a Twitter/X thread here.] A new Guttmacher report shows abortions in 2023 are at the highest level since 2012. At an estimated 1,026,690 abortions, the 2023 number is a 10% increase over 2020 levels. Does this mean Dobbs (the 2022 Supreme Court decision to overturn Roe v. […]
The Chronicle for Higher Education recently published “Medical Students Fought to Get Training in Abortion Care. Then Came ‘Dobbs.’” Author Heidi Landecker paints a grim picture of medical students who just want to practice “ethical medicine” (perform abortions), but struggle to get training in states that have been able to restrict elective abortion since Dobbs. […]
The Alabama Supreme Court ruled in favor of infertile couples who conceived through IVF. That bears repeating: the IVF parents won. Here’s the full text of the Court’s opinion so you can confirm for yourself. If you are a casual observer just going off of headlines, you could be forgiven for believing the exact opposite: […]
I’ve recently been seeing headlines like these: On January 2, 2024, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled on Texas v Becerra, a case about what the federal Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act (EMTALA) can require of hospitals. And no, the court did not say Texas can ban emergency abortions. EMTALA requires Medicare-accepting […]
Introducing the WeCount report. You may have recently seen headlines like these: These articles are based on the October 2023 WeCount report. WeCount describes themselves as a “national abortion reporting effort.” Their report focuses on the number of abortions in the United States in the 12 month period after Dobbs (July 2022 through June 2023), […]
In late 2022, NPR published Her miscarriage left her bleeding profusely. An Ohio ER sent her home to wait. This is the story of Christina Zielke and her struggle to get appropriate miscarriage treatment while in Ohio. Abortion rights advocates are pointing to this story as evidence of the harm of abortion bans in general […]
On May 22, 2023, In These Times published “What It’s Like to Have an Abortion Denied by Dobbs,” which profiles Lationna and her newborn son, Kinglsey. I came across the article because of this tweet: The tweet already had a whole lot of quote tweets, many of them saying terrible things about Lationna herself, what […]
In the Guardian’s notorious article “What a pregnancy actually looks like before 10 weeks – in pictures,” Senior Staff writer Poppy Noor implied that images of decidua and pulverized embryos after an abortion (and, for some reason, after being rinsed of all blood) were what a “pregnancy” looks like before 10 weeks. She further suggested […]
Bonner General Health (BGH), a hospital in Sandpoint, Idaho, has announced it is ending it’s labor and delivery services. You may have seen headlines like these: The Dobbs decision overturned Roe v. Wade, which had been around since 1973. That means legislatures across the country are grappling with changes to a decades-long legal status quo. […]
On October 19, Guardian Senior Staff writer Poppy Noor published “What a pregnancy actually looks like before 10 weeks – in pictures.” The article reprints photographs from the MYA Network (“MY Abortion” network) of aborted pregnancy tissue and quotes an abortion provider of the same network, Dr. Joan Fleischman. Given the title and the framing […]
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