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A Texas federal judge will rule on a lawsuit that seeks to reverse the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) approval of mifepristone. Mifepristone is one of two drugs commonly prescribed by doctors to induce a medical abortion. More than half of abortions in the U.S. use mifepristone. A reversal in FDA approval would remove the drug from the market, jeopardizing abortion access for nearly 40 million potentially pregnant patients in America. The ruling of this lawsuit is a significant step that could restrict abortions, even for pregnant people in states with broad abortion access. The drug is ...
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Gerson Fuentes, the man accused of raping and impregnating a 10-year-old Ohio girl who had to travel out of state to have an abortion, has been indicted. Fuentes, 27, faces two felony accounts of rape after being identified by the victim and admitting to the crime on multiple occasions. The story of the 10-year-old girl who crossed state lines to Indiana for the procedure, following the Supreme Court’s overturning of Roe v. Wade, sent shockwaves around the country. The decision returned the right to individual states to determine what their’ abortion laws will be, and in Ohio, the law is now t...
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The Biden administration announced Wednesday that pharmacies must continue to fill contraception prescriptions and medication that could induce abortion, or they will be in violation of civil rights laws. “We are committed to ensuring that everyone can access health care, free of discrimination,” Human and Health Services Secretary Xavier Becerra said in a Wednesday statement. “This includes access to prescription medications for reproductive health and other types of care.” The federal law affects the nearly 60,000 pharmacies across the nation that benefit from federal funds. The announcement...
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President Joe Biden signed an executive order on Friday to protect abortion rights following the Supreme Court’s late June decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, returning the right to individual states to determine their own abortion laws. While there’s nothing Biden can do to restore the federal right to abortion, the executive order is aimed at bolstering reproductive health care services, including increasing access to abortion pills, directing health care services on better-ensuring patient privacy when it comes to giving authorities information and forming a group of pro bono lawyers to assis...
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A 10-year-old rape victim traveled to Indiana for an abortion after being denied the procedure in Ohio following the Supreme Court’s overturning of Roe v. Wade last month, showcasing the effect their decision to roll back federal abortion rights is already having. The girl, who was six weeks and three days pregnant, was treated by an Indianapolis obstetrician-gynecologist Dr. Caitlin Bernard after she was contacted by an Ohio doctor who specialized in child abuse victims. In Ohio, abortions are illegal at the point of a heartbeat, which is usually around six weeks. Doctors like Bernard have re...
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Justice Samuel Alito is the latest Supreme Court Justice to see protests outside his home following last week’s leaked Supreme Court opinion draft which indicated the court’s intention to overturn the landmark Roe v. Wade ruling. Around 100 protestors marched in front of his house in Alexandria, Virginia on Monday night. Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Brett Kavanaughhave also seen protests outside of their homes since the confidentiality breach. Alito, one of the court’s most consistently conservative justices, was the author of the opinion draft. He was joined by Justices Kavanaugh, C...
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Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell called a national abortion ban “possible” should Roe v. Wade be overturned by the Supreme Court this summer in a new interview with USA Today. “If the leaked opinion became the final opinion, legislative bodies — not only at the state level but at the federal level — certainly could legislate in that area,” McConnell said. “And if this were the final decision, that was the point that it should be resolved one way or another in the legislative process. So yeah, it’s possible.” Last week’s leaked opinion draft strongly suggested that the Supreme Court will ...
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Sen. Mike Braun (R-Indiana) attempted to revise a statement he made in a press conference Tuesday about landmark Supreme Court case, Loving v. Virginia, which legalized interracial marriage in the United States. In the press conference, Braun was discussing the high court’s upcoming ruling on Mississippi’s 15-week abortion ban, in which the court is expected to overturn or limit Roe v. Wade, which outlined federal abortion rights. He said he believed that national policies legalized by the Supreme Court should be left up to the states to decide whether or not they want to adopt the law. A repo...
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California lawmakers backed a bill in a Thursday vote that would make abortions cheaper for people who have private health insurance plans. The bill is a preemptive strike should the U.S. Supreme Court decide to overturn Roe v. Wade, the case that blocks states from banning abortions, this summer. The proposal would make it illegal for insurers to charge co-pay and deductibles, which would save $543 in the case of medication abortion and $887 to have a procedural abortion, according to the California Health Benefits Review Program. California would be the fourth state to adopt these measures, ...
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A Texas high school valedictorian has gone viral for delivering a surprise speech condemning her state’s newest restrictive abortion law. Paxton Smith, 18, did not plan on delivering the speech originally, but when it was her turn to speak at the Lake Highlands High School graduation, she decided to take a stand for what she believed was of the gravest importance that day and pulled out the new, unapproved speech from her gown. She said it “felt wrong” to talk about anything other than the Texas “heartbeat bill.” After quickly thanking her coach for the important role he had played in her high...
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