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The Latest Breaking News from Abortion

Afternoon Edition: May 6, 2022

Today’s update is a 5-minute read that will brief you on the day’s biggest stories.

Chicago Sun-Times

Abortion adds to Biden's all-but-impossible to-do list

President Joe Biden is under pressure to preserve access to abortion, but he has few good options to do it

The Independent UK

What overturning Roe means for medication abortion

The fact that there's an FDA-approved drug for use up to 10 weeks and states are saying ‘no, you can only use it for six,’ makes no sense.”

Inverse

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How overturning Roe v Wade could supercharge the 2022 midterm campaigns

Swing state Democrats are calling for a defense of abortion rights and Republicans doubling down on ending them

The Guardian - US

Tenn. governor signs bill regulating medication abortions

Republican Gov. Bill Lee has signed legislation that will strictly regulate the dispensing of abortion pills, including imposing harsh penalties on doctors who violate them

The Independent UK

Georgians on abortion front line adjust to prospect of Roe's defeat

ATLANTA — About a month ago, as speculation grew that the U.S. Supreme Court was preparing to overturn the landmark decision that made abortion legal throughout the country, Planned Parenthood's Southeastern office quietly created a new position.

Tribune News Service

If Missouri’s abortion ban is triggered, showdown over state constitution likely ahead

If the U.S. Supreme Court overturns Roe v. Wade, as a leaked draft opinion indicates it will, Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt will soon after issue a legal opinion confirming the decision and triggering a near-total abortion ban in the state.

Tribune News Service

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Ex-VP Mike Pence blasts VP Kamala Harris for her denouncement of Supreme Court anti-abortion draft ruling

Get ready for a battle of the veeps over abortion rights.

Tribune News Service

Republicans are lying to you about Roe

GOP talking points include calling forced childbirth "compassion" and concealing plans for a national abortion ban

Salon

This attack on women’s reproductive rights must be resisted

Letters: Women die when access to contraception and safe abortion is denied, says Dr Tricia Cresswell, while Karin Bjornson tells of her own experience of termination. Plus letters from Monica Threlfall, Mary Pimm and Roger Munday

The Guardian - UK

Rhode Island Supreme Court Rejects Challenge to Rhode Island's Abortion Rights Statute

From Wednesday's decision of the Rhode Island Supreme Court in Benson v. McKee (opinion by Justice Maureen McKenna Goldberg, joined by Chief Justice Paul Suttell and Justice William Robinson; Justices Erin Lynch Prata and Melissa Long did not participate): In 2019 the General Assembly enacted the Reproductive Privacy Act (the…

Reason

Gloria Steinem's calls to protect bodily autonomy live on as Roe faces reversal

Activist Gloria Steinem has fought for women's rights for decades. She has no plans to stop even as the Supreme Court is poised to reverse Roe v. Wade.

WEKU

Tesla covers travel costs for workers seeking abortions

Tesla is covering travel costs for employees seeking abortions outside their home state

The Independent UK

Motherhood deferred: US median age for giving birth hits 30

Over the past three decades, birthrates have declined for women in their 20s and jumped for women in their late 30s and early 40s

The Independent UK

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Chicago Sun-Times

In Chicago, advocates and providers brace for influx of patients if abortion rights are rolled back

Changes in abortion rights in neighboring states could mean an additional 20,000 to 30,000 people per year will come to Illinois for abortions, said Jennifer Welch, the president and CEO of Planned Parenthood of Illinois.

Tribune News Service

Calif. state leaders promise haven for women seeking abortions

SAN DIEGO — California will take a national role in abortion access in the event that the landmark ruling Roe v. Wade is overturned, state and local leaders said at a roundtable discussion Thursday.

Reason

When Ted Kennedy Was Pro-Life and Ronald Reagan Was Expanding Abortion Access

The forgotten abortion politics of the pre-Roe era

The Conversation

Roe v Wade to be overturned? What this would mean for reproductive rights around the world

Reproductive rights have been an urgent topic of discussion around the world in recent days, following the leak of a draft opinion of the US supreme court, written by Justice Samuel Alito, in the case of Dobbs v Jackson Women’s Health Organization. If enacted by the court, this opinion would…

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The Independent UK

What is Roe v Wade and did it get overturned?

Ruling enshrined women’s right to terminate a pregnancy

Reason

Ending Roe Threatens More Than Abortion Rights

Plus: Lawsuit against Twitter can move forward, antitrust bills targeting Big Tech falter, and more...

The Conversation

US abortion law decision brings attention to rights of women in Africa

A leaked draft of a majority opinion of the US Supreme Court has revealed the court’s leaning towards undoing its 1973 landmark ruling (Roe v Wade) which gave women in the US a constitutional right to abortion. The leaked document is not the court’s final decision – this is expected…

Axios

Abortion pill startup to seek new VC funds

Over half of U.S. abortions are now done via medication.

WEKU

Timely and urgent, 'Happening' is a film that speaks to today's abortion debate

A 23-year-old literature student discovers she's pregnant after a fling. This movie, based on Annie Ernaux's autobiographical novel, traces her desperate attempt to get an abortion in 1963 France.

Axios

Survey: Over 60% of adults say most abortions should be legal in U.S.

The poll was conducted before the leak of the draft opinion showing the Supreme Court might overturn Roe v. Wade.

Salon

Will Democrats waste this moment?

The GOP is so outside of the mainstream that Democrats have an opportunity to save themselves before the midterms

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