Roe v. Wade is gone.

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A third Texas woman, Porsha Ngumezi, died under that state’s abortion ban. Instead of the D&C she needed, doctors gave her misoprostol. The bleeding continued and she died.

https://www.propublica.org/article/porsh...ortion-ban

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Watches as 'merica slides slowly into the dark ages

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Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton files first lawsuit against out-of-state abortion provider

The lawsuit will test the strength of Texas' near-total abortion ban against a New York shield law that protects physicians who provide abortions.

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has filed his first lawsuit against an out-of-state abortion provider, alleging that a New York physician prescribed abortion-inducing pills to a Texas woman via telemedicine.

Abortions are outlawed in Texas except when a pregnant person faces a "life-threatening condition," with no exceptions for rape, incest or fatal fetal anomalies.

Paxton is seeking $250,000 in damages for the alleged violations of the state's abortion ban and other laws, including one that requires doctors to be licensed in Texas to administer telehealth services in the state.

It also further escalates Paxton's crusade against pregnancy terminations both inside and outside of Texas' bounds, coming nearly two months after he sued the city of Austin for funding travel expenses for residents seeking out-of-state abortions.

https://www.statesman.com/story/news/pol...967237007/

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In states that ban abortion, social safety net programs often fail families

Tennessee has a porous safety net for mothers and young children, recent research and an analysis by The Associated Press found. It’s unknown how many women in the state have given birth because they didn’t have access to abortion, but it is clear that from the time a Tennessee woman gets pregnant, she faces greater obstacles to a healthy pregnancy, a healthy child and a financially stable family than the average American mom.

Like other states with strict abortion bans, Tennesseans of childbearing age are more likely to live in maternal care deserts and face overall doctor shortages. Women, infants and children are less likely to be enrolled in a government nutrition program known as WIC. And Tennessee is one of only 10 states that hasn’t expanded Medicaid to a greater share of low-income families.

“It’s survival, every day,” said Janie Busbee, founder of Mother to Mother, a Nashville-based nonprofit providing baby supplies for low-income moms. “If we took some of that stress off of them, then maybe they’d have time to dream.”

GOP state leaders in Tennessee and other states that banned abortion after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in 2022 argue that they are bolstering services for families.

Yet, nonprofit leaders and mothers told the AP there are still significant gaps in the safety net.

Other states with similarly restrictive abortion laws — such as Idaho, Alabama, Missouri, Georgia and Mississippi — ranked poorly on numerous measures, too. Researchers said restrictive states had a slightly higher average birth rate and a much lower average abortion rate than the least restrictive states.

https://apnews.com/article/abortion-tenn...b173b67297

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The Muslims on the front line of America’s abortion clampdown

“A lot of the conversation about abortion access here in the US is steeped in Christianity,” says Ja’Loni, an abortion doula working in Georgia. “Even when pro-choice initiatives are presented as targeting faith-based communities, it sort of defaults to Christianity.”

Ja’Loni avoids sharing their full name online due to the nature of their work. They are part of the Ad’iyah Collective — a group that, for the past two years, has been helping Muslim Americans access their “divine right to bodily autonomy” while abortion rights are dramatically rolled back.

Ja’Loni accuses the US of hypocrisy when it comes to reproductive rights. “On the one hand, the west frames Muslims and Islam as inherently misogynistic and anti-abortion,” they say. “Then, when members of this community want to exercise our reproductive freedom in the United States, for example, Muslims can’t find culturally competent reproductive care providers and many of us live in regions where abortion specifically is not accessible.”

Those who need to terminate a pregnancy are then left relying on their own research and resources to access the procedure through medication or by travelling out of state. This is where Ja’Loni steps in.

Maya, who is using a pseudonym, found out six months after Roe was struck down that her foetus had a rare chromosomal condition and would not survive outside the womb. “I felt alone,” she says. “The doctors in Texas told me that my pregnancy was unviable, but that was it.”

They told her only that she could travel out of state to get an abortion: “I had to do all the research myself.”

Health, Education, Advocacy, Research and Training (Heart), a Muslim reproductive rights organisation, has recently launched a Reproductive Justice Fund to help abortion seekers meet the costs of abortion care.

https://hyphenonline.com/2025/01/15/abor...ald-trump/

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Texas Lawmaker Touts Bill To Charge Women Who Have Abortions With Murder On Christian Nationalist’s Show

On Friday, Texas state Rep. Brent Money sat down for an interview with Joel Webbon, a virulently racist, antisemitic, anti-LGBTQ, and misogynistic Christian nationalist pastor. During the interview, Money promoted a bill he introduced to treat self-managed abortions as murder, and claimed that “motherhood” is the “highest and best use for women.”

Money complained to Webbon and his co-hosts, Wesley Todd and Michael Belch, that, in Texas, “if you’re a doctor and you participate in abortion, that’s, you know, that’s not allowed anymore, but yet we still say a self-managed abortion” is “not categorized as anything within our law” and is a “complete and total carve-out.”

Money explained that this was the impetus for his bill, HB 2197, which, as he stated in an interview with the right-wing Texas Scorecard, would categorize self-managed abortions as murder. He further justified the bill by likening it to punishing his own children for disobeying him.

“The law teaches people what is right and what is wrong,” Money said. “I never want to spank the child, but what I don’t want is for the child to get hit by a car driving by, and so I teach him, this is wrong, this is out of bounds, I warn him, if you do this, there are consequences, and then ultimately I provide consequences to serve as a deterrent in the future, and a notice to the other children that I really do mean business.”

Joel Webbon expressed full support for Money’s bill, remarking that by not punishing people who have abortions, it “reinforces” the idea that “women don’t sin” and “can’t really do anything wrong.”

“We can worship women or save babies, but you can’t do both.” He added that “America for quite a while now, at least half a century, has opted for worshiping women.”

Brent Money appeared baffled by the idea that women would prioritize careers over raising children, and declared that “motherhood” is the “highest and best use for women.”

https://angrywhitemen.org/2025/02/01/tex...ists-show/

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Texas’ Abortion Ban Is Forcing Children Under 12 to Travel Out-of-State for Care

Republican lawmakers across the country have spent the last few years fearmongering about LGBTQ “child groomers.” But according to a devastating new report in the Houston Chronicle, one of the graver threats to children’s bodily safety is, predictably, GOP lawmakers and their abortion bans. The Chronicle reports that in 2023, at least 100 minors had to leave Texas for abortion care; at least six of the minors were children under 12 years old. This number—100 minors—is ninefold from what it was five years ago. Prior to 2022, when the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, between 1,000 and 1,400 Texas minors received abortions in the state annually. That number fell to zero in 2023.

Child welfare advocates told the newspaper that many of the minors’ pregnancies resulted from rape and that every child’s pregnancy in the youngest age category resulted from rape. (The age of consent in Texas is 17.) Nonetheless, Texas’ abortion ban, which threatens providers with life in prison among other steep penalties, offers no exception for rape.

https://www.jezebel.com/texas-abortion-b...e-for-care