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…
Category Archives: Abortion Access
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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…