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What sets the Texas case apart, however, is that the women are believed to be the first in the U.S. to sue a state and testify over being denied abortion following newly enacted bans.
One in three women in America lives in a state with a Trump Abortion Ban. And these hypocrites want to start talking about how this is in the best interest of women and children.
The full ban, meanwhile, makes exceptions for physicians who decide an abortion is necessary to save a pregnant woman’s life, and for cases of rape and incest.
Ellen Russell is a lonely, single, poorly educated Texan who finds herself pregnant with no means to support a child. To avoid giving up the child, she seeks an abortion. Denied an abortion in Texas, the young woman hires a novice lawyer to plead her case in the U.S. Supreme Court.
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.
In the ad, Ondrea says she was denied abortion care under the state’s near-total ban, which threatens physicians who violate the law with felony charges punishable by up to life in prison.
Abortion in the U.S. by gestational age, 2016 [324] According to the Centers for Disease Control, in 2011, most (64.5%) abortions were performed by ≤8 weeks' gestation, and nearly all (91.4%) were performed by ≤13 weeks' gestation. Few abortions (7.3%) were performed between 14 and 20 weeks' gestation or at ≥21 weeks' gestation (1.4%).
As pro-choice activists grow more and more concerned over the fate of Roe v. Wade in the coming weeks, and having just celebrated an uncertain 49th anniversary of the landmark court case giving ...