South Carolina Supreme Court takes up state's abortion ban South Carolina Supreme Court Justices grilled lawyers over the extent of the right to privacy in a case Wednesday that could determine the scope of the state's abortion restrictions. The hearing marked the latest legal challenge to South Carolina's 2021 ban on abortions after cardiac activity is detected, typically around six weeks, with exceptions for pregnancies caused by rape or incest, or those that endanger the patient's life. Read more ABC News Covert network provides pills for thousands of abortions in…
Indiana supreme court blocks state from enforcing abortion ban The Indiana supreme court issued an order Wednesday that prevents the state from enforcing a Republican-backed abortion ban while it considers whether it violates the state constitution. The supreme court took over the case after a county judge blocked the ban last month, spurring the attorney general to appeal the decision. The court denied a request from the state attorney general’s office to set aside the preliminary injunction, setting a hearing on the lawsuit filed by abortion clinic operators for 12…
66 clinics across 15 states have stopped offering abortions post-Roe In the 100 days since Roe v. Wade was overturned, 66 clinics in more than a dozen states have stopped providing abortions, according to a new report from the Guttmacher Institute, an abortion-rights advocacy and research group. Of those 66 clinics, 40 still offer non-abortion services while 26 have shut their doors, the analysis found. As of Wednesday, abortions are almost entirely unavailable in 14 states — Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, Idaho, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas,…
AOC says abortion bans ‘conscript’ the poor to work. Research shows restrictions have devastating economic impacts In a hearing on the far-reaching consequences of anti-abortion laws on 29 September, US Rep Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said that denying abortion access to millions of Americans is a “profound economic issue”. “Forcing poor and working class people to give birth against their will, against their consent, against their ability to provide for themselves or their child is a profound economic issue,” she told the House Oversight committee. “It certainly is a way to keep…
Wisconsin's Evers proposes pathway for abortion vote Democratic Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers, who is making abortion rights a central focus of his reelection campaign, called Wednesday for a special session of the Republican-controlled Legislature to pass a measure creating a way for voters to repeal the state's 1849 abortion ban. It’s the latest move by Evers to put pressure on Republicans over abortion and keep the issue in the spotlight ahead of the election. Polls have repeatedly shown that a majority of Wisconsin residents support abortion rights. Evers is in…
Lindsay Graham introduces nationwide 15-week abortion ban Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham introduced a Federal nationwide abortion ban on Tuesday, sending shockwaves through both parties and igniting fresh debate on how Republicans are going to handle the issue on the campaign trail, weeks before the midterm elections that will determine control of Congress. Just as many Republicans are attempting to scrub their sites of anti-abortion rhetoric - in acknowledgement of how unpopular abortion bans are with their consitutents - Graham is trying to center it in the election. Graham’s own Party…
South Carolina House rejects total abortion ban before passing bill with narrow exceptions The South Carolina House on Tuesday approved a bill that outlaws abortion except in the cases of pregnancies caused by rape or incest, and to prevent death of the pregnant person. The chamber initially rejected the bill without rape or incest exceptions by eight votes. But once Republicans saw the outcome, they quickly went through a number of complex procedures and votes to bring the bill back and pass it. This bill is being advanced while the…
The fall of Roe v. Wade leads to new anti-abortion bans enacted in Idaho, Tennessee and Texas, which already had strict abortion restrictions. Near-total bans on abortion went into effect in Idaho, Tennesee and Texas overnight on Thursday, bringing the number of states where abortion has become illegal or been severely restricted to 14 since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade. So-called trigger bans are state laws that were created to automatically ban abortion if Roe fell at the federal level. Many such bans, including in Kentucky, Louisiana and…
Georgia State Court Maintains 6-Week Abortion Ban A few weeks ago on the blog, we discussed the abortion providers’ lawsuit seeking to block Georgia’s 6-week abortion ban while their case against it was proceeding. This week, a state court in Fulton, Georgia declined to block the ban, allowing the state to continue criminalizing essential abortion care services. The ban denies abortion two weeks after a person’s first missed period, before many even know they are pregnant. The decision only denies Georgians immediate emergency relief while the case proceeds, and advocates…
Healthcare Providers Seek To Block Florida’s 15-Week Abortion Ban This week, healthcare providers in Florida have been working to block the state’s ban on abortions after 15 weeks, and are requesting that the Florida Supreme Court review the case after meaningful avenues to block the 15-week ban have been repeatedly dismissed in lower courts. The plaintiffs argue that the ban, which criminalizes essential abortion care and the people who provide it, violates the state constitution and causes irreperable harm to Floridians. In a move that directly contradicted its past decisions,…
