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It’s a sad day for women’s reproductive rights in Mississippi. Mississippi’s strict new law might soon force its only practicing abortion clinic out of business. The law, which will take effect on Saturday, mandates that all doctors who perform abortions also have admitting privileges at a local hospital. More
An Idaho woman is challenging the state’s ‘fetal pain‘ law, after being charged for taking abortion drugs when she was more than 5 months pregnant. Under Idaho law, 19 weeks is the legal abortion limit, based on the premise that a fetus can feel pain after this point. More
In a case of real-life imitating what I’m sure has been the subject of several Law & Order episodes, an Oregon woman was awarded $900,000 in a lawsuit against a retired Portland dentist who gave her herpes. Though sex between the unnamed 49-year-old plaintiff and her 69-year-old lover was consensual, she said he misled her about wearing a condom and failed to mention he had herpes until after they had sex. More
If all you’ve heard about the sex selective abortion bill in Congress is that it was shot down yesterday, you might be wondering what’s going on here: Isn’t sex selective abortion a practice that’s pretty generally frowned upon by lawmakers? But there’s a good reason why the measure (officially called the Prenatal Nondiscrimination Act) failed—and also why we’ll be hearing about it for months to come. More
If you think some of the “wrongful birth” suits in the United States are strange/controversial, check out this case from Spain. After wrongly telling a pregnant woman her abortion procedure had been successful, a doctor has been ordered to pay for the child’s upkeep—for the next 25 years. But is it right that this doctor has to essentially pay child support for a child that he had no part in creating, well past the child’s 18th birthday, for making a medical error? More
Today, BuzzFeed brought it to everyone’s attention that Brad Fischetti, of the boy band LFO (you know that song “Summer Girls”? About having a summer fling? That was them) spends his days lingering creepily outside of a women’s health clinic in Orlando, trying to talk women out of abortions…and Tweeting about it. Not cool, guy. Not cool. More
To hear some anti-abortion crusaders tell it, the second a pregnant woman mentions that she’s considering an abortion she’s whisked off to an operating table by a salivating cabal of Planned Parenthood harpies. The overarching anti-choice narrative is that most women seeking abortions don’t actually understand the consequences of their choice—hence the need for things like mandatory waiting periods, forced ultrasounds and friendly lectures from crisis pregnancy center staff. A new study published in Perspectives on Reproductive and Sexual Health, however, found that far from being clueless, vulnerable damsels led astray by evil abortionists, the vast majority of women seeking abortions are “highly confident” about their choice. More
In a new Funny or Die video, Kate Beckinsale, Judy Greer and Andrea Savage play Republican women who want the government in their vaginas—and their mothers’, daughters’, and grandmothers’ vaginas—instead of banks and classrooms. They urge viewers to “let the Oval Office take care of your Oval Office” and “open up your legs and let the government in,” but crude jokes aside, the video hits on a question that many women are asking: Do any women really want the government to have total control of their vaginas? More
File this under #ItNeverEndsDoesIt?: Lawmakers in Kansas have passed a bill that would both turn the state’s tax code into a weapon against abortion access and require doctors to lie about the link between abortion and breast cancer. Because what’s a little science in the face of blinding ideology, folks? More
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Everyone agrees that a pregnant woman shouldn’t smoke crack or snort meth, right? And the consensus that they shouldn’t smoke cigarettes or throw back a six-back every night is fairly ironclad, as well. Beyond obviously harmful behaviors like alcohol and drug use, however, things get more complicated. And with good reason: Mothers’ own needs and health must be carefully balanced with the needs and health of potential children they’re carrying. After all, pregnant women aren’t simply baby incubating machines. But try telling that to the state of Alabama. More
In the continuing saga of Texas v. Planned Parenthood, a second federal court has told Gov. Rick Perry et al. that they can’t play political football with women’s health care access, at least for the time being. More
In the May issue of Playboy, Hugh Hefner has penned a full-page editorial criticizing the conservative “war against sex.” It’s the second time this month we’ve been reminded that support for reproductive rights and support for treating women as fully equal and autonomous human beings doesn’t always go hand in hand. But why should they? I’ll take a misogynist or a sleazeball who defends my reproductive rights over a misogynist or sleazeball who doesn’t any day. More
In Arizona yesterday, lawmakers passed three anti-abortion bills, including one that bans abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy; one to prohibit lawsuits against doctors who withhold info from pregnant women; and one mandating how school curriculums must address the topic of unwanted pregnancies. More
In Georgia, a bill intended to prohibit abortions after 20 weeks has passed both the state House and Senate. Speaking in support of the bill—officially HR 954, but referred to by lawmakers as the ‘fetal pain bill’ and opponents as the ‘women as livestock‘ bill—state Rep. Terry England compared pregnant women pigs and cows. The final, compromise bill allows for abortion after 20 weeks in cases where a fetus had “profound and irremediable’ anomalies that would be ‘incompatible with sustaining life after birth.’
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