Only about1 percent of abortions are estimatedto occur at or after 21 weeks of pregnancy, and the vast majority of them are necessary for the health of the pregnant person, or are the result of fatal fetal abnormalities, meaning that a fetus will never be viable. And even tho...
JD Vance — on the cusp of becoming the vice president-elect as Donald Trump won or leads in all seven battleground states — just called tonight’s results “the greatest political comeback in the history of the United States of America.” “Under Presiden...
Reading Time:4minutesGianna Jessen My biological mother was seven-and-a-half months pregnant when she decided to abort me. I don’t know why she made that decision. It was 1977. She and my biological father were 17 at the time and weren’t married. She went to a clinic in Los Angele...
For many women, facing the issue of abortion is the first time they have had to make a decision for themselves that no one else, finally, can make. It is their body at risk, their fetus at risk, their personal, family and financial future at risk. In fact, women may make moral deci...
Abortions can be performed for any reason through the full nine months of pregnancy. States may regulate where, when, who, how an abortion can occur in the second and third trimesters of pregnancy, but they cannot forbid a woman from having an abortion at any time throughout the pregnancy....
“You can ask slaves what happens when we forget. We have to remember slavery in America so it won’t come back,” said Republican Rep. Cindy Crawford,according to the Arkansas Times. “We have to remember abortion in Arkansas so it won’t come back. There’s no reason why we can’...
…theHouston Chronicle…reports that in 2023, at least 100 minors had to leave Texas for abortion care; at least six of the minors were children under 12 years old. This number…is ninefold from what it was five years ago. Prior to 2022…between 1,000 and 1,400 Texas minors received ...
“The men of America are seeing their daughters and wives and sisters and mothers put at risk because their rights have been taken from them. The men of America don't want this,” Harris said. She used similar language at her Saturday rally in Kalamazoo, Michigan, where...
In America, almost half of American women have aborted at least one pregnancy, and millions of people of both sexes have helped them, as parents, partners, health-care workers, physicians, counselors, and friends. Amongst Americans, it would seem that there is quite a bit of knowledge and ...
” She pushed the trauma from her mind and continued working in restaurants to save enough money to eventually find a place to rent. Over five months after the rape, this young woman experienced what seemed to be an extreme amount of blood loss for her monthly period. At first she ...