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Jessen's career as an activist began in 1991, when she was 14, after her adoptive mother, Diana DePaul, told Jessen she was born to a 17-year-old girl, during a failed abortion attempt. Jessen has since campaigned against abortion, saying "It's more comfortable for people to think of abortion as a political decision, or a right. But I am not a ...
At the first Republican primary debate, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis invoked the story of an “abortion survivor” after he was asked about his state’s six-week abortion ban. “I know a lady ...
A new project seeks to memorialize the labor and community of women’s health care workers during a 50-year period when the right to an abortion was legally protected across the US.
Geraldine "Gerri" Santoro (née Twerdy; August 16, 1935 – June 8, 1964) was an American woman who died after attempting a self-induced abortion in 1964. A police photograph of her dead body, published by Ms. in 1973, became a symbol for the abortion-rights movement in the United States.
When Roe was first overturned, Democrats initially focused on limitations on access to abortion to end unwanted pregnancies. But the same medical procedures used for abortions are used to treat miscarriages. And increasingly in 14 states with strict abortion bans, women cannot get medical care until their condition has become life-threatening.
In a hearing at the Court on Nov. 28, attorneys for the Center for Reproductive Rights argued that the state's lack of guidance on enforcing Texas' abortion bans have caused and will cause ...
In response to critics accusing abortion rights activists of exploiting Halappanavar's death, Kate Smurthwaite responded in a column in The Huffington Post titled "Yes, Savita Halappanavar's Death IS a Political Issue" in which she stated, "If I am ever a victim of an unjust legal discrepancy that infringes my human rights and leads to my ...
Joshua said experiencing the effects of an abortion ban "in real time" was "the wildest thing" she'd ever experienced. She told Scripps News she felt like she "was in a movie," particularly when ...