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People of Ohio will be able to vote on a right to abortion
Ohio voters will vote on Tuesday on a constitutional amendment that would protect the state’s right to an abortion. The amendment was placed on the ballot by Republicans to make it harder to amend the state constitution in order to overturn the law against abortion in the fall. The amendment requires parental consent before minors…
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Maternity care suffers as abortions Drive Obstetricians from Red States
Idaho, a state in the US, is the only jurisdiction in the country that bars abortions at any point in a pregnancy with just two exceptions. A federal judge has issued a temporary order permitting abortions in certain cases when the health of the woman is at risk. The American College of Obstetricians and obstetricians…
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South Carolina and Nebraska did not have strict abortion bans
A US Senator, John Riepe, criticised the leaders of Nebraska and South Carolina over their attempts to ban abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy. “Those who continue to push legislation like this are raping us again…with their righteous indignation, taunting us again with their insatiable need to play God while they continue to pass laws…
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The Republican Party’s’suburban women’ problem could be worse because of abortion policies
The Suburban Women Problem is a reference to Lindsey Graham’s remark wherein he had said “we’ve got to address the suburban women problem because it’s real”. Rachel Vindman, a political science professor at UTArlington, said these more extreme policies have made the issue of abortion more salient. She added that these policies have made the…
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The supreme court is considering the abortion pill decision
The US Supreme Court has issued a stay on a lower court’s order to allow mail-delivery of the abortion pill mifepristone in the country. The stay will expire at 11:59 pm EDT today unless it is lifted by the court, which is expected to take up the case on Tuesday. If the stay expires, a…
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There are rallies to support abortion pill access
Several doctors who spoke at a protest in the US said that medical professionals can’t provide high-quality, evidence-based care where abortions are in effect. The doctors said medical professionals couldn’t provide high quality, evidence-based care where abortion restrictions are in effect. They further said that the judges weren’t doctors and that the protesters are anti-abortion.
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The abortion drug’s approval was 23 years ago
The US Supreme Court on Friday extended its temporary hold on a lower court ruling that would have restricted access to an abortion drug. The appeals court had upheld a lower court’s ruling that halted the sale of the abortion drug mifepristone and said that it will allow the drug only to be dispensed up…
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Access to drugs is jeopardized by the abortion pill legal standoff
The US government has urged the Supreme Court to block a lower court ruling that blocked access to abortion drugs in the country. “The district court upended decades of reliance by blocking FDA’s approval…based on the court’s own misguided assessment of the drug’s safety,” Justice Department lawyers said. The court is expected to decide by…
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The Florida house passed a six-week abortion ban
The Florida Legislature on Thursday approved a ban on abortions after six weeks ofpregnancy, a proposal signed into law by Republican Governor Ron DeSantis. “Right to choose begins before you have sex,” state Rep Kiyan Michael, a Jacksonville Republican, said. The law in Florida states that the drugs used in abortions could only be purchased…
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Full access to the abortion pill will be asked to the Supreme Court by the Justice Department
The US Supreme Court has temporarily blocked a judge’s ruling that would have blocked the use of medication abortions. Mifepristone, used in combination with another drug in nearly all medication abortions in the US, was approved by the FDA in 2000. Anti-abortion doctors and plaintiffs had sued the FDA over how the agency changed the…
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The Appeals court can rule in any dispute about the FDA’s suspension of abortion drug approval
The US Food and Drug administration has released proposed rules to protect access to abortion drugs. The administration took similar steps to protect access to abortion after a judge in Texas temporarily suspended the approval of the FDA’s approval of the abortion drug mifepristone. President Joe Biden had asked the administration to ignore the ruling,…
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If the medication abortion case is successful, then it could set up another high-profile Supreme Court ruling
The US Food and Drug Administration has said a judge’s ruling revoking its approval of the abortion pill mifepristone could be the most consequential abortion decision since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Separately, the pill- manufacturer Danco said the judge’s “relentlessly one-sided narrative” never mentions the millions of women who have benefitted from the…
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The judge’s ruling against the abortion pill was filled with activists’ language
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has said a federal judge’s order temporarily blocking the use of the abortion drug mifepristone should be put on hold. US District Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk ruled last week that the FDA had failed to evaluate the drug’s potential harms. Danco, an abortion drug maker, said that Kacsmaryk’s narrative…
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A Texas court ruling was threatening abortion pill access nationwide
A Texas judge ruled that the Food and Drugs Administration acted oddly when it approved the abortion pill, Mifeprex, over 20 years ago. Mifeprex and misoprostol, which can be taken between a day and a half after the abortion pill, can be taken about a day and a half after the abortion pill is taken…
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I worked at F.D.A and the abortion pill decision is dangerous
The US government on Monday asked a federal judge in Texas to delay his order that halted the use of abortion drug misoprostol. The US Food and Drug Administration had approved Mifepristone, also known as RU-486, for use in women’s abortions in the country 23 years ago. However, the judge had said Mifepristone couldn’t be…
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Mifepristone is used for abortion
A US judge ruled that the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) cannot ban the use of the abortion drug mifepristone. Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk said it’s not clear if a woman would need to have a surgical abortion after taking mifepristone, the second-best-selling abortion drug in the country. The FDA has been criticised for its inaction…
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3 states struck deals to stock up on abortion pill
Texas US Representative Adrian Gonzales has said that he can’t keep the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) away. He made the statement in response to a Republican lawmaker who asked him what he could do to keep the FDA away. This comes after a federal judge ruled that the FDA made a mistake when…
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The judge’s order may make abortion pill unavailable Friday
The US Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar has said women’s medication would be safe and effective after the government launched a legal appeal to stop the suspension. A Texas judge ruled on Friday that the Food and Drug Administration should not have approved the abortion-inducing pill in the first place and a Washington…
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The abortion ban controversy isstarting to freak out Republicans
The US Supreme Court will hear a case on Monday over a judge’s decision to block new restrictions on abortion pills. The US FDA had approved the use of RU-486 for treatment of late-term abortions but the state of Texas had sought a stay on the FDA’s decision. The case was filed by an anti-abortion…
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There is a fight going on over the abortion procedure after Roe
Idaho Governor Raul Labrador wrote a letter to US District Judge David Crane over the legal opinion that said it is not permissible for medical providers to refer patients for abortion services other than in Idaho. Labrador said Idaho’s near-total abortion ban prevents an Idaho medical provider from referring a woman across state lines to…
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A US judge says the FDA wrongly approved a key abortion pill
The US Supreme Court on Friday overturned decades of abortion-rights precedents and allowed states to require doctors to have admitting privileges at a nearby hospital. The justices said the state laws that require doctors to verify that women are taking abortion-inducing drugs can be enforced. They also allowed doctors to use non-FDA-approved pills to terminate…
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Service members who travel for abortions will be paid by the Pentagon
The Pentagon has said it will pay for US military members to travel to another state to undergo abortions after the Supreme Court decision. Over 90 abortions were performed in military hospitals between 2016 and 2021, according to a report by the US House of Representatives Armed Services Committee. The Pentagon is considering moving US…
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The law shouldn’t make me hurt my patients this way
Five women who were denied abortions under Texas law while facing medical emergencies are suing the state. The lawsuit, filed on behalf of the women and two doctors who were denied fertility care, asked a judge to clarify exceptions to the laws. The law requires abortion providers to be board-certified with admitting privileges at a…
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The Biden administration is being sued over abortion pill rules
Walgreens said it won’t sell the first of two drugs in the abortion process in 20 states. This comes after GOP attorneys general in some states wrote to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) asking it to revoke its ban on the medication abortion drug mifepristone. The US Supreme Court last year ruled that women…
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A report says there are higher death rates for babies in states that ban or restrict abortion
In states that restrict abortion access, there is more than a higher number of deliveries in rural areas, where it is harder to get maternity care, a study by the Guttmacher Institute showed. Rural areas had 17% of births in abortion-restriction states but 8% in abortion-access states. The study analysed data on deaths and other…