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H.R.1065 - 117th Congress (2021-2022): Pregnant Workers Fairness Act
Summary of H.R.1065 - 117th Congress (2021-2022): Pregnant Workers Fairness Act
Hobbs issues four more vetoes, bringing her yearly total to 24
Republican state legislators keep sending bills to Democratic Gov. Katie Hobbs and she keeps vetoing them, including one she struck down Monday that critics say would have helped to codify fetal personhood.
Planned Parenthood Seeks to Block Utah Ban on Abortion Clinics
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Yavapai County attorney wants to intervene in Supreme Court abortion battle
In pleadings to the high court, attorneys for McGrane said he does not agree with the decision by the state Court of Appeals that a 2022 law permitting doctors to perform the procedure through the 15th week of pregnancy trumps the older statute.
The Miscarriage and Abortion Hotline 1-833-246-2632
Miscarriage + Abortion Hotline provides anonymous 24/7 abortion helpline support (call or text) and medical information to people having an abortion at home.
House Bill 7 (2023) - The Florida Senate
‘You are not being heard’: the devastating black maternal mortality crisis in the US
Aftershock, a grimly revealing new documentary, focuses on grieving families in a system that endangers women of colour
Shout your abortion - Lindy West writer of foreword. ; Emily Nokes (Graphic designer), editor. ; Amelia Bonow editor.
Presents a collection of photos, essays, and creative work inspired by the movement of the same name, a template for building new communities of healing, and a call to action. Since SYA's inception, people all over the country have shared stories and begun organizing in a range of ways: making art, hosting comedy shows, creating abortion-positive clothing, altering billboards, starting conversations that had never happened before. This book documents some of these projects and illuminates the individuals who have breathed life into this movement, illustrating the liberatory and political power of defying shame and claiming sole authorship of our experiences. --From publisher description.
We live for the we : the political power of Black motherhood - Dani McClain
Black mothering is an inherently political act. Black women are more likely to die during pregnancy or childbirth than women of any other race; black mothers must stand before television cameras reminding the world that their slain children were human beings. The author explores how to ensure her daughter lives with dignity and joy, learning how to parent boldly in uncertain times and cope with the anxieties that sometimes threaten to consume her. McClain spoke with mothers on the frontlines of movements for social, political and cultural change who are grappling with the same questions.
Reproducing race: an ethnography of pregnancy as a site of racialization - Khiara Bridges
Reproducing Race, an ethnography of pregnancy and birth at a large New York City public hospital, explores the role of race in the medical setting. Khiara M. Bridges investigates how race--commonly seen as biological in the medical world--is socially constructed among women dependent on the public healthcare system for prenatal care and childbirth. Bridges argues that race carries powerful material consequences for these women even when it is not explicitly named, showing how they are marginalized by the practices and assumptions of the clinic staff. Deftly weaving ethnographic evidence into broader discussions of Medicaid and racial disparities in infant and maternal mortality, Bridges shines new light on the politics of healthcare for the poor, demonstrating how the "medicalization" of social problems reproduces racial stereotypes and governs the bodies of poor women of color.
Medical bondage : race, gender, and the origins of American gynecology - Deirdre Cooper Owens
The accomplishments of pioneering American doctors such as John Peter Mettauer, James Marion Sims, and Nathan Bozeman are well documented. It is also no secret that these nineteenth-century gynecologists performed experimental cesarean sections, ovariotomies, and obstetric fistula repairs primarily on poor and powerless women. "Medical Bondage" breaks new ground by exploring how and why physicians denied these women their full humanity yet valued them as "medical superbodies" highly suited for medical experimentation. Even as they were advancing, these doctors were legitimizing groundless theories related to whiteness and blackness, men and women, and the inferiority of other races or nationalities. "Medical Bondage" moves between southern plantations and northern urban centers to reveal how nineteenth-century American ideas about race, health, and status influenced doctor-patient relationships in sites of healing like slave cabins, medical colleges, and hospitals. -- From publisher's description.
How a half-eaten burrito led to charges in the firebombing of an anti-abortion office
Federal officials say they've arrested a 29-year-old Wisconsin man in connection with the May 2022 incident. They found him with the help of forensics and fast food.
Florida sued over bans on gender-affirming care for transgender youth | CNN Politics
Four families in Florida sued the state on Thursday over new rules prohibiting gender-affirming care for transgender youth, arguing the bans violate the US Constitution and should be thrown out.
In US abortion pill case, FDA may soften blow of court-ordered restrictions | – #abortion #pill #case #FDA #soften #blow #courtordered #restrictions
March 23 (Reuters) - A conservative federal judge in Texas soon USA Food and Medicine To the office USAcould reconsider or order approval of the 22-year-old app
Abortion pills now banned in Wyoming after governor signs bill into law
Wyoming Gov. Mark Gordon signed a bill banning medication abortions into law on Friday, becoming the first state to do so.
North Dakota's top court will not revive state's abortion ban | Law-Order
North Dakota's Supreme Court on Thursday refused to revive a strict abortion ban previously blocked by a lower court, finding that the ban runs afoul of a right under the state constitution to abortion if it is needed to preserve the mother's life or health. The ruling means that abortion remains legal in North Dakota for now.
US maternal death rate rose sharply in 2021, CDC data shows, and experts worry the problem is getting worse | CNN
As women continue to die due to pregnancy or childbirth each year in the United States, new federal data shows that the nation's maternal death rate rose significantly yet again in 2021, with the rates among Black women more than twice as high as those of White women.
Maternal Mortality Rates in the United States, 2021
National Center for Health Statistics
Takeaways from the Texas hearing on medication abortion drugs | CNN Politics
Over the course of about four hours of arguments, a federal judge in Texas asked questions that suggested he is seriously considering undoing the US Food and Drug Administration's approval of a medication abortion drug and the agency's moves to relax the rules around its use.
University of Arizona law professor speaks on potential overturning of Roe v. Wade
U.S. Abortion Ruling Will Not Affect Overseas Aid - Diplomat
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“Catastrophic”: Trump-Appointed Judge in Texas May Restrict Abortion Pill Mifepristone Nationwide
We look at today’s hearing by a federal judge in Texas who could restrict medication abortions throughout the United States and revoke the Food and Drug Administration’s two-decade-old approval of mifepristone, the abortion medication used in a majority of pregnancy terminations across the country. The Trump-appointed judge has ruled against the Biden administration in numerous cases and is widely expected to favor the anti-abortion side in the case, though an appeal of any ruling is all but certain. Amy Littlefield, The Nation's abortion access correspondent, says that while medication abortions are still possible without mifepristone, it can be less effective and more painful. “We're talking about imposing suffering on medication abortion patients across the country,” Littlefield says.
Federal judge in Texas hears case that could force a major abortion pill off market
If the case succeeds, it could have sweeping repercussions — for abortion clinics and patients across the nation, as well as for the FDA's drug-approval process.
EEOC to Add Non-Binary Gender Option to Discrimination Charge Intake Process
WASHINGTON -- The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) announced today that it will promote greater equity and inclusion for members of the LGBTQI+ community by giving individuals the option to select a nonbinary “X” gender marker during the voluntary self-identification questions that are part of the intake process for filing a charge of discrimination. This announcement comes on Transgender Day of Visibility, which recognizes the resilience and accomplishments of the transgender community.
Judge reinstates ban on abortions for fetal abnormalities
The ruling reverses a 2021 decision that previously blocked the law.
The Status Of Abortion Rights In America - Fresh Air
Legal historian Mary Ziegler has chronicled the legal, political and cultural battles around abortion, and says the debate is far from over: "We're at a moment of almost unprecedented uncertainty in the United States when it comes to abortion," Zielger says. Her book is Roe: The History of a National Obsession.
What to Know About the Abortion Case that Could Ban Mifepristone | ACLU
A baseless lawsuit targeting mifepristone could effectively ban the most commonly used method of abortion — very soon.
State Attacks on Sexual and Reproductive Health
Anti-reproductive health politicians are attacking access to birth control, abortion, sex education, and more at the state and local levels.
CSU Law Library Blog | Recent HHS, Labor and Treasury Departments Guidance on ACA Birth Control Coverage