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News Articles: abortion bans

Anti-abortion protesters march past the Planned Parenthood in Bloomington, Ind., after the Rally for Life march in January 2023. The facility offers birth control and testing for sexually transmitted diseases now that abortion is banned in Indiana.

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Abortion providers — and patients — are on the move, as state laws keep shifting

Clinics in states where most abortions are legal, such as Kansas and Illinois, are reporting an influx of inquiries from patients hundreds of miles away — and are expanding in response.

September 17, 2024
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By:
  • Bram Sable-Smith
The "Rally for Life" march at the Texas State Capitol in Austin in January. Even groups that oppose abortion are asking for more clarity on exceptions to the state's abortion bans.

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  • Health

New rules are in the works about abortion bans in Texas. Almost nobody's happy.

The Texas Medical Board has drafted guidelines for doctors to decide when an abortion is necessary and legal under the state's strict ban. The rules were widely panned at a recent public hearing.

May 25, 2024
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By:
  • Selena Simmons-Duffin and
  • Diane Webber
Abortion rights activists at the Supreme Court in Washington, D.C. on March 26, the day the case about the abortion drug mifepristone was heard. The number of abortions in the U.S. increased, a study says, surprising researchers.

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Despite state bans, abortions nationwide are up, driven by telehealth

Telehealth accounts for 19% of all abortions, new research finds. And while the number of abortions did plummet in ban states, overall abortions across the country are up.

May 14, 2024
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By:
  • Elissa Nadworny
The Match Day ceremony at the University of California, Irvine, on March 15. Match Day is the day when medical students seeking residency and fellowship training positions find out their options. Increasingly, medical students are choosing to go to states that don't restrict abortion.

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  • Health

Medical residents are starting to avoid states with abortion bans, data shows

A new analysis shows that students graduating from U.S. medical schools this year were less likely to apply for residencies across specialties in states with restrictions on abortion.

May 10, 2024
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By:
  • Julie Rovner and
  • Rachana Pradhan
The medical community dates pregnancy to the first day of a woman's last period, even though fertilization generally happens two weeks after that. It's a long-standing practice but a confusing one.

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  • Health Care

Why is a 6-week abortion ban nearly a total ban? It's about how we date a pregnancy

The time a person has to decide whether to have an abortion in Florida and other states with six-week abortion bans is at most two weeks. Why? It's has to do with how we date early pregnancy.

May 01, 2024
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  • Selena Simmons-Duffin
ProLife Across America, a national nonprofit, has placed multiple anti-abortion billboards in Rapid City, South Dakota.

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  • Health Care

What counts as an exception to South Dakota's abortion ban? A video may soon explain

South Dakota allows doctors to terminate a pregnancy only if a patient's life is in jeopardy. Lawmakers say a government-created video would clarify what that exception actually means.

February 27, 2024
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  • Arielle Zionts
Kate Cox is about 21 weeks pregnant and her fetus has a condition that is almost always fatal. She is also having problems with her own health that has sent her to the emergency room multiple times.

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  • Health

A woman who sued Texas for access to abortion seeks a procedure out of state instead

Kate Cox, a 31-year-old mother of two, is ill and carrying a fetus with a genetic condition that is almost always fatal. She decided to leave Texas to get an abortion.

December 12, 2023
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  • Selena Simmons-Duffin
Nicole Blackmon says she is mourning two children, the teenager she lost to gun violence and her stillborn baby. She is suing Tennessee because she says abortion bans interfered with her care.

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  • Health

Women fight abortion bans in 3 more states with legal actions

Patients and doctors in Tennessee, Idaho and Oklahoma are taking legal action against state abortion bans. Women told dramatic stories of dangerous pregnancies and delayed care.

September 13, 2023
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  • Selena Simmons-Duffin

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  • Health

New state abortion numbers show increases in some surprising places

What happened to abortion numbers since Roe v. Wade fell? The Guttmacher Institute has new state-by-state numbers that show people are traveling for the procedure.

September 07, 2023
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By:
  • Selena Simmons-Duffin
Rep. Ann Johnson, a Democrat from Houston, authored a Texas law that doctors say will be life-saving for women with two pregnancy complications. She worked across the aisle with the author of S.B. 8.

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  • Health

To expand abortion access in Texas, a lawmaker gets creative

Starting Sept. 1, limited abortion care will be legal in Texas in two pregnancy circumstances. Getting that through the conservative Texas legislature required "masterful and discreet" lawmaking.

August 22, 2023
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By:
  • Selena Simmons-Duffin
Dr. Austin Dennard at her home in Dallas in May. She is one of 13 patients and two other doctors suing Texas over its abortion bans.

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  • Health

For one Texas doctor, abortion bans are personal and professional

Dr. Austin Dennard is an OB-GYN who is going to give birth very soon. She also had to leave Texas to terminate a previous pregnancy because the fetus had a fatal condition.

August 21, 2023
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By:
  • Selena Simmons-Duffin
A woman has her arm bandaged by a nurse.

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  • Health

California grads headed to HBCUs in the South prepare for college under abortion bans

As young adults prepare to leave blue states and head to historically black colleges in states where abortion is banned, they're getting ready to safeguard their reproductive health during college.

August 15, 2023
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By:
  • April Dembosky
The Center for Reproductive Rights brought the lawsuit on behalf of 13 women and two doctors. The women had pregnancy complications that endangered their lives or had fetuses with fatal anomalies.

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  • National

Texas abortion bans are back in place after state appeals judge's order

A day earlier, a Texas judge temporarily blocked the state's abortion bans from being enforced against doctors who perform abortions in cases of medical emergencies and fetal anomalies.

August 05, 2023
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By:
  • Sarah McCammon and
  • Emma Bowman
Abortion rights supporters demonstrate outside the U.S. Supreme Court on June 24, 2022, in response to its decision in <em>Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization</em>.

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  • National

Some states are restricting abortion. Others are spending millions to fund it

Nearly a year after the U.S. Supreme Court allowed abortion bans around the country to take effect, some cities and states are pushing in the other direction, a new report finds.

June 20, 2023
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  • Sarah McCammon
Democratic Sen. Tammy Baldwin in Washington, D.C., in 2019. Her state of Wisconsin now has near total ban on abortion under an 1849 law.

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  • Health

Abortion care training is banned in some states. A new bill could help OB-GYNs get it

Medical schools in states that have banned abortion can't teach abortion care. Sen. Tammy Baldwin wants to make funds available for students in those states to travel for the training.

June 15, 2023
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  • Pien Huang
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