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In March 2023, five people sued Texas over its abortion restrictions. By November, the lawsuit had expanded to 20 plaintiffs. [95] In December 2023, Kate Cox, a pregnant woman in Texas, sued for access to an emergency abortion; this was the first publicized lawsuit of its kind in the United States in 50 years, since Roe v. Wade in 1973. [96]
For the first time since the 2022 Dobbs decision, a pregnant woman asked for court pre-authorization of an abortion, and the story out of Texas has drawn national headlines—as well as misleading ...
The fallout from Dobbs v.Jackson Women's Health Organization and the resulting restrictive abortion policies are causing increasing barriers to abortion access in the United States, which is statistically negatively affecting, among other things, the health and well-being of birthing people and young children, with ripple effects to other populations.
Four states restrict the procedure from 6 to 12 weeks after a person's last menstrual period, while seven others restrict abortion after 15 weeks of pregnancy. Abortion is legal until a pregnant ...
A vast majority of Texas OB-GYNs feel they cannot provide the highest-quality care to their pregnant patients under the state's near-total abortion ban — and one in five has considered leaving ...
The abortion debate is a longstanding and contentious discourse that touches on the moral, legal, medical, and religious aspects of induced abortion. [1] In English-speaking countries, the debate has two major sides, commonly referred to as the "pro-choice" and "pro-life" movements.
Moayedi and Ivey both stressed that Texas laws allow medical providers to treat pregnancy complications in which a fetus has died, but that the severity of the penalties associated with the state ...
A Texas medical panel on Friday rebuffed calls to list specific exceptions to one of the most restrictive abortions bans in the U.S., which physicians say is dangerously unclear and has forced ...