The Harms of Abortion Restrictions During the COVID-19 Pandemic
These policies restricting abortion are unlikely to conserve PPE, and more importantly, they mischaracterize the nature and importance of abortions.
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Read more: New TWIHL 182: Abortion Exceptionalism During COVID-19 New TWIHL 182: Abortion Exceptionalism During COVID-19
I welcome three excellent guests this week. Our discussion centered around new abortion restrictions issued as part of state responses to COVID-19.
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Read more: Increased Restrictions and Court Activity for Reproductive Rights in the US in 2019 Increased Restrictions and Court Activity for Reproductive Rights in the US in 2019
The landscape of abortion law in the United States saw increases in targeted restrictions in 2019, but also some efforts to protect access by state governments and courts, according to new data published this week to LawAtlas.org. The data capture abortion-focused statutes and regulations (or amendments to existing laws) in effect between December 1, 2018…
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Read more: Access as Equity: Efforts to Use Telemedicine to Expand Abortion Access Access as Equity: Efforts to Use Telemedicine to Expand Abortion Access
By Oliver Kim I’ve written here before about areas where technology could play a role in providing access to complicated, controversial healthcare services. Earlier this year, I presented a forthcoming paper co-authored with a colleague on how technology can be used to provide greater equity in women’s health and how the law is being used…
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Read more: New Dataset: Conscience Protections for Providers and Patients New Dataset: Conscience Protections for Providers and Patients
A new dataset of health care conscience laws relating to abortion reveals broad scope of protection for providers, limited protection for patients.
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Read more: A Lawsuit Involving an Alabama Man and a Fetus Is Particularly Threatening to Reproductive Rights A Lawsuit Involving an Alabama Man and a Fetus Is Particularly Threatening to Reproductive Rights
This troubling decision should worry all those who seek to defend the rights of women in these contexts.
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Read more: Pennsylvania Not Alone in Denying Abortion Coverage for Low-Income Women Pennsylvania Not Alone in Denying Abortion Coverage for Low-Income Women
Pennsylvania is not the only state that imposes funding limitations through state law.
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Read more: New Study Finds That TRAP (Targeted Regulation of Abortion Providers) Laws Are More Pervasive and Stringent Than Laws Regulating Other Office Interventions – Datasets and Mapping Tool Now Available on LawAtlas New Study Finds That TRAP (Targeted Regulation of Abortion Providers) Laws Are More Pervasive and Stringent Than Laws Regulating Other Office Interventions – Datasets and Mapping Tool Now Available on LawAtlas
Researchers from The University of California, San Francisco’s Advancing New Standards in Reproductive Health (ANSIRH) and Temple University’s Policy Surveillance Program of the Center for Public Health Law Research (CPHLR) published a study yesterday in the American Journal of Public Health, comparing laws governing facilities that provide abortions with laws governing facilities that provide other…
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Read more: “That I Don’t Know”: The Uncertain Futures of Our Bodies in America “That I Don’t Know”: The Uncertain Futures of Our Bodies in America
By Wendy S. Salkin I. Our Bodies, Our Body Politic On March 30, at a town hall meeting in Green Bay, Wisconsin, an audience member asked then-presidential-hopeful Donald J. Trump: “[W]hat is your stance on women’s rights and their right to choose in their own reproductive health?” What followed was a lengthy back-and-forth with Chris Matthews….
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Read more: Linda Greenhouse Wins Headline of the Year Linda Greenhouse Wins Headline of the Year
By Gregory M. Lipper “Sex After 50 at the Supreme Court” is the title of today’s Turkey Day column by the peerless Linda Greenhouse. She takes a saucy look at upcoming Supreme Court cases on contraception and abortion and the role of religion in motivating restrictions on reproductive rights and health. Here’s a taste: But…