A woman is suing the Church of Scientology, claiming the organization forced to have an abortion when she just 17 years old. Laura DeCrescenzo says she signed one of the organization’s notorious“billion-year contracts” in 1991, when she was 12 years old. She alleges she was forced to abort while part of the “Sea Org,”…
On Thursday, April 21, the Republican-dominated Oklahoma House of Representatives approved SB 1552, one of the nation’s most restrictive abortion bills. The bill, which contains no exceptions for rape or incest, would allow the legislature to revoke the license of any doctor who performs an abortion, effectively…
On Friday, the Florida Supreme Court placed an injunction on the state’s 24-hour abortion waiting period, barring the controversial law from being enforced. The waiting period, which requires women to visit a provider, in person, to receive counseling a full day before undergoing an abortion, was signed into law last…
At a hearing Wednesday morning, House Republicans busily “investigating” abortion clinics claimed to have a smoking gun—finally—at last, indisputable proof that fetal tissue is being sold for profit in these here United States. House Democrats, meanwhile, said that “evidence” was absolute bullshit, with one Democratic…
In late March, Indiana passed House Enrolled Act 1337, a comprehensive abortion bill that placed a series of familiar restrictions on the procedure; from requiring doctors to have admitting privileges at nearby hospitals to restricting abortion based on race and gender and outlawing abortion based on disability.…
Mississippi Governor Phil Bryant has signed a bill banning a common second trimester abortion method, dilation and evacuation. The bill leaves just a sliver of a loophole, allowing the procedure only to prevent “irreversible physical impairment.” Mississippi has only one abortion clinic, who are quite likely to sue…
Late yesterday, the Prenatal Nondiscrimination Act (PRENDA) made its way to the floor of a House of Representatives committee. An all-male panel discussed the merits of the bill as its Republican sponsors and supporters invoked the New Testament, the Founding Fathers, and Frederick Douglass.
Northern Ireland’s largest trade union has expressed strong concerns over the country’s draconian abortion laws, following the recent conviction of a 21-year-old woman for taking abortion pills. Unite, the union, said the abortion laws are a “class issue,” criminalizing working-class women and potentially putting them…
In an interview Thursday, self-tanning enthusiast Donald Trump tried to clarify some of his recent positions on abortion. The Washington Post reports that when asked whether or not he’s ever dated a woman who had an abortion, Trump replied, “the answer is no.”
Planned Parenthood has filed suit against Indiana for a new anti-abortion law, arguing that it’s blatantly unconstitutional. The law, signed by Governor Mike Pence in March, prevents abortions based on genetic abnormalities and stipulates that aborted fetuses must be buried or cremated.
Donald Trump is reportedly set to address an an anti-abortion conference Wednesday, Politico reports. Trump—himself an enraged, bewigged fetus blown up to a nightmarish size—has spent a week shakily walking back comments he made saying women should be punished for having abortions if the procedure was made illegal.
Each year, the National Abortion Federation, an association representing abortion providers, releases statistics on violence, harassment and death threats against their members. In a normal year, those numbers are depressing and terrifyingly high. But 2015 was not a normal year. It was worse.
Although abortion is legal in the rest of the United Kingdom, its ban in Northern Ireland remains in place. And as a result, a 21-year-old woman was almost sent to prison for self-inducing a miscarriage.
Today Mississippi’s House of Representatives passed a law legalizing discrimination against the LGBT community. That puts the Magnolia State in such shameful company as North Carolina and West Virginia in codifying discrimination in the 21st century; Georgia recently backed off its own discriminatory law after…
Just when you think Donald Trump’s opinions about women and their rights had reached rocked bottom, he managed to quarry even further into some ring of hell that, until previously, only existed in Dante’s Inferno. On Wednesday, while speaking with Chris Matthews on MSNBC, Trump said that he believes abortion should be…
The U.S. Food and Drug Association has approved new label changes for mifepristone—the drug used with misoprostol to induce abortions—that will make access to medication abortions harder to limit.
Utah Governor Gary Herbert has signed a bill requiring that doctors administer anesthesia to people receiving abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy. The bill, you will be non-surprised to learn, isn’t about concern for a pregnant person’s health, but is based on the bogus notion that 20-week fetuses can feel pain.
Following the series of “sting videos” aimed at Planned Parenthood and produced by the Center for Medical Progress, state legislatures and the House of Representatives opened a series of investigations targeting Planned Parenthood. While the investigations have found no wrongdoing on the part of Planned Parenthood,…
On Thursday, Indiana Governor Mike Pence signed a bill that places more restrictions on abortion in the state. The bill bans women from seeking abortions based on race, gender or disability of the fetus, as well as placing new restrictions on doctors.
With anti-choice legislation closing health centers across America, limiting access not only to abortion but also a plethora of services like STD treatment or cancer screenings, this story is a good reminder that terminating a pregnancy can be an event in a woman’s life rather than a defining tragedy.
