States With Abortion Bans Had an Even Higher Than Expected Infant Death Rate. Here’s Why.
USA Today, February 13, 2025
The number of infants dying after states enact abortion bans is even higher than expected, a new study found. But there were stark differences, namely with non-Hispanic Black infants and mothers. Black infants died at an 11% rate higher than expected, or about 265 infant death. Birth rates were higher for Black, Latino and other nonwhite people, as well as people who received Medicaid, didn’t have a college degree, and those who were unmarried or younger.
Abortions To Resume in Missouri After Judge Blocks Restrictions
NBC News, February 14, 2025
Abortions are set to resume in Missouri after a judge blocked regulations that had restricted providers even after voters approved enshrining abortion rights into the state’s constitution. Missouri is one of five states where voters approved ballot measures in 2024 to enshrine abortion rights in their constitutions.
Lawsuit Aims To Remove Final Barriers to Reproductive Health Are in Michigan
CBS News, February 14, 2025
Michigan solidified the right to an abortion in the state constitution back in 2022, but abortion rights advocates say there’s still work to be done. A lawsuit brought by Northland Family Planning could change those remaining laws. Michigan currently requires abortion to be provided through doctors and physician assistants, and nurses with advanced degrees aren’t allowed to perform abortions or prescribe termination medication. Michigan also still requires doctors to provide informed consent which requires information like adoption. The final law at issue is Michigan’s 24-hour waiting period.
Texas Judge Fines New York Doctor for Sending Abortion Pills to Texas
NPR, February 14, 2025
A Texas judge on Thursday ordered a New York doctor to pay more than $100,000 in penalties for prescribing abortion pills to a woman near Dallas, a ruling that could test “shield laws” in Democratic-controlled states where abortion is legal. The ruling was handed down on the same day New York Gov. Kathy Hochul rejected a request from Louisiana to extradite the same doctor, Dr. Maggie Carpenter, who was charged in that state with prescribing abortion pills to a pregnant minor.
Anti-Abortion Centers Face Little Regulation. The SAD Act Could Change That.
The 19th, February 13, 2025
The Stop Anti-Abortion Disinformation (SAD) Act will be reintroduced Thursday by Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren and Rep. Suzanne Bonamici of Oregon. The bill aims to empower the Federal Trade Commission to regulate these often religiously affiliated centers – which are not medical clinics and therefore not subject to the laws that govern health care providers. That would include being able to take disciplinary action, including levying fines, if they provide misleading or false information about abortions, contraception or other forms of reproductive health care.
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A Biden administration settlement to advance Black maternal health outcomes is in jeopardy. Senior Manager of Maternal & Infant Health Amani Echols covers how the Trump administration threatens this historic progress. Originally published in @MsMagazine.https://t.co/oulh1VnS02
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