The number of Americans supporting Roe v Wade, the legal right to abortion, is the highest it’s been in two decades. 7 out of 10 Americans oppose overturning Roe v Wade. Yet, the Brett Kavanaugh’s nomination to the Supreme Court could put the legal right to abortion in jeopardy. Kavanaugh has already displayed a striking…
Category Archives: Abortion Access
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Questions About Abortion
Questions About Abortion First off — What are your pregnancy choices? [FAQs] Do you have general questions about abortion? Metropolitan Family Planning can help with these questions, and more. Searching the Internet on these topics often provide information that are incorrect, biased, and skewed. Some are even graphic and shame-inducing. If you are feeling a…
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Mississippi May Face the Nation’s Strictest Abortion Law
On March 6th, 2018 the Mississippi Senate passed a version of the Mississippi House Bill 1510, a law that would make it ILLEGAL for women to seek abortion care AFTER 15 weeks of pregnancy. The states’s Republican Governor Phil Bryant’s desk, signed it on April 9th. In response to a suit from the Center for Reproductive…
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Next big fight over abortion rights
This month, a federal district court ruled unconstitutional a Texas provision that bans the most common form of second trimester abortions D&E. The decision was an important win in what is emerging as the next big fight over abortion rights: criminalizing abortion procedures and providers in the name of promoting “fetal life.” Anti-choice lawmakers continue to target abortion clinics for…
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Texas Teen Abortion Rate Rises
After seeing research results provided by Texas A&M University, economics professor Analisa Packham (now at Miami University) Republicans may want to reconsider trying to defund Planned Parenthood as part of an overall effort to limit abortion in America. In 2011 Texas Republicans cut family planning clinics funding and shut down more than 80 women’s health…