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Oscar-winning actor speaks about the ‘life-altering’ operation she underwent in Mexico with no anaesthetic in 1964: ‘How you can go back to that?’ Link: https://www.theguardian.com/film/2024/oct/08/sally-field-recalls-her-hideous-abortion-at-17-as-she-urges-voters-to-back-kamala-harris

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is putting the full weight of the Florida government behind an effort to defeat a ballot measure that would protect abortion access in the state — including by enlisting government lawyers in a campaign to silence a young mother with terminal brain cancer who is warning of the danger Florida’s strict ban poses to women like her.…

Fulton County Judge Robert McBurney just struck down the Georgia LIFE Act, which makes abortion after six weeks a felony. The filing is a stinging rebuke of the anti-choice law. Link: https://www.muellershewrote.com/p/the-incredible-ruling-striking-down

McEntee received over 11,000 comments on his video, mostly from women describing their own stories, or stories from relatives or friends, of brutal and horrific medical complications that have resulted from providers refusing to provide medically necessary abortion in red states for fear of prosecution. Link: https://meidasnews.com/news/project-2025-staffers-viral-video-on-abortion-massively-backfires

A lifesaving drug used to stop postpartum hemorrhaging will be pulled off emergency response carts once it becomes a ‘controlled dangerous substance.’ Link: https://lailluminator.com/2024/09/03/louisiana-women/

A woman who was denied an abortion at a Kansas hospital after suffering a pregnancy complication that her attorneys say put her at risk of sepsis and even death is suing in a case that already prompted a federal investigation. Link: https://www.medpagetoday.com/obgyn/abortion/111326?xid=nl_mpt_OB/GYN_update_2024-08-01&mh=51907aea4d22470cceb5f843148a8ea0?xid%3Dnl_mpt_OB/GYN_update_2024-08-01&mh=51907aea4d22470cceb5f843148a8ea0&utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Automated%20Specialty%20Update%20OBGYN%202024-08-01&utm_term=NL_Spec_OBGYN_Update_Active

Signaling a new tactic by anti-abortion groups, a Texas man has taken legal action against his ex-girlfriend over her alleged out-of-state abortion. Texas has a strict abortion ban. Link: https://www.npr.org/2024/05/17/1252218618/interstate-travel-becomes-a-target-for-the-anti-abortion-movement-with-texas-fil

As originally written, House Bill 1426 by Rep. Rita Fleming, D-Jeffersonville, would have required hospitals to offer long-acting reversible contraceptives — IUDs and arm implants — to Medicaid-covered women after they give birth. The legislation is meant to help women in vulnerable situations and potentially save the state billions of Medicaid dollars spent on unintended pregnancies. But now the…

The research letter, published by JAMA Internal Medicine, estimated that nearly 520,000 rapes were associated with 64,565 pregnancies across 14 states. Link: https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/64k-women-girls-became-pregnant-due-rape-states-abortion-bans-study-es-rcna135565

Commissioners in this rural Texas county that borders New Mexico on Thursday gave their unanimous blessing to a legally dubious policy that effectively outlaws travel on its local roads to seek an abortion. Link: https://www.ksat.com/news/texas/2023/09/28/with-no-opposition-in-the-room-a-rural-texas-county-makes-traveling-for-an-abortion-on-its-roads-illegal/