An estimated 64565 pregnancies have resulted from rape in the 14 US states with total bans on abortion, says a research letter published in JAMA Internal Medicine .1 The researchers wrote, "Thousands of girls and women in states that banned abortion experienced rape-related pregnancy, but few (...
Tennessee has a porous safety net for mothers and young children, recent research and an analysis by the Associated Press found. It’s unknown how many women in the state have given birth because theydidn’t have accessto abortion, but it is clear that from the time ...
Connecticut Governor Ned Lamont has a message for women-owned businesses in states that have passed abortion bans: leave your state and come to ours. On Twitter, the governor posted his open letter toAlabama,GeorgiaandMissouribusiness owners encouraging them to move, and explaining why th...
Nearly one-third of residents in accredited U.S. family medicine programs are training in states that banned abortion or where abortion was very restricted. The overturning of 'Roe v. Wade' will impact family medicine residency training and havelong-term effectsonfamily physicians' ability to prov...
Local election officials have until July 30 to verify the signatures, then it's up to the secretary of state to declare whether there were enough. A group of moderate Republicans have for this year abandoned efforts for an alternate amendment that would have allowed abortion up to 12 weeks, ...
The issue of abortion will be before voters in at least four states this year, and possibly more. Voters have sided with abortion rights supporters every time the issue has been directly on the ballot since the U.S.
Mr. Pritzker, a Democrat, urged executives to rethink basing their providers in “a condition that strips its inhabitants of their dignity.” Most employees, he wrote, did not want to reside under a rigid abortion ban. There was no rapid reaction to his overture. Corporations flourishing in ...
Matsumoto first argued that Idaho’s law was so vague that Idahoans would have no way of knowing what was and wasn’t allowed under the statute. What did it mean, for example, to “recruit” someone for abortion? Would advocating for abortion rights qualify? Matsumoto further claimed that ...
Americans’ opposition to government regulation may be a key part of this finding: 63 percent in that survey said that recent abortion bans and restrictions have made them think about "wanting the government to stay out of abortion decisions all together" — including 38 percent of ...
Supporters of other abortion measures inArizona and Nebraskasubmitted petitions in their respective states on Wednesday. The fate of the measures could reshape or confirm the trendlines that have developed in the two years since the U.S. Supreme Courtremoved the nationwi...