Democratic Campaign Group Won’t Support Anti-Abortion Candidates
Kentucky Attorney General Andy Beshear, who won the governor’s race on a pro-choice platform in a deep-red state, acknowledges supporters at his election night party in Louisville on November 5.Bryan Woolston/AP Photo On Saturday, Democratic Gov. John Bel Edwards’ reelection victory in deep-red Louisiana sent a strong signal that there’s a future for anti-abortion candidates…
When Students Can’t Get Emergency Contraception From Vending Machines, Sometimes There’s No Plan B
Plan B sits on a shelf in a pharmacy in Montgomery, Alabama.Seth Herald/AFP via Getty Images In the spring of 2017, Emma Donnelly, a junior at the University of Southern Maine, read an article that inspired her to take action. Students at the University of California, Davis, had organized to get a vending machine on…
Judge Blocks Trump Administration’s “Conscience Rule” to Deny Health Care on Religious Grounds
People gather at the state capitol to rally in support of abortion rights in Sacramento, California, in May.Rich Pedroncelli/AP The Trump administration’s “conscience rule,” which would have allowed health care providers to refuse to offer services such as abortions, contraceptive care, and vaccinations that they disagree with on religious or moral grounds, was declared unconstitutional by…
Missouri Has Been Tracking the Menstrual Cycles of Planned Parenthood Patients, Top Health Official Admits
Protesters rally in St. Louis for abortion rights and in opposition to the ban recently passed by the Missouri legislature in May.Robert Cohen/St. Louis Post-Dispatch via AP Missouri’s top health official admitted that the state government has been tracking the menstrual cycles of Planned Parenthood patients as it weighs the fate of the state’s last remaining abortion…
Judge Blocks Alabama’s Blanket Abortion Ban
Angela Fremont, who is originally from Alabama, joins a protest against abortion bans on May 21 in New York.Mary Altaffer/AP A federal judge blocked an Alabama law on Tuesday that would have banned abortions in nearly all cases and threatened providers with up to 99 years in prison for performing an abortion. Planned Parenthood and…
Will Missouri Become the First State Without an Abortion Clinic Since Roe v. Wade?
Abortion rights supporters take part in a protest on May 30 in St. Louis. Jeff Roberson/AP Photo A hearing this week will determine the fate of Missouri’s only remaining abortion clinic—and whether Missouri will become the first state in the country not to have a single abortion clinic since Roe v. Wade. At the conclusion…