Black Americans face a US health care system still impaired by structural racism and implicit bias. The situation is especially dire for Black people going through pregnancies.
A new study published in JAMA Internal Medicine found that 30% of these anti-abortion ‘fake clinics’ promote "abortion pill reversal," a treatment that’s not backed by science and does not meet clinical standards.
For this year’s upcoming General Assembly session in Virginia, there will be a lot of focus on advancing an abortion-care state constitutional amendment, but legislators are also working on bills to bolster women’s reproductive rights in other ways.
Virginia House committee advances three constitutional amendments on abortion, voting rights, and marriage equality.
In an op-ed, Kate Kelly highlights how the 1873 Comstock Act, passed at the behest of Anthony Comstock — a man so obsessed with abortion providers, he drove one to suicide with his relentless harassment — could be revived by Republicans to enact a nationwide abortion ban.
The proposal comes days before Election Day, as Vice President Kamala Harris affixes her presidential campaign to a promise of expanding women's health care access in the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court's decision to undo nationwide abortion rights two years ago.
A new analysis by the Center for American Progress Action shows the devastating day-to-day reality of state abortion bans.
The Senate filibuster rule requires a 60-vote threshold for most legislation to pass, making it virtually impossible to pass abortion rights legislation due to Republican opposition. Without the filibuster, a law restoring Roe v. Wade could pass with a simple majority, or 51 Senate votes.
As Donald Trump ties himself into knots to appear more moderate on reproductive rights after years of bragging about his role in overturning the constitutional right to an abortion, a down-ballot Republican in Virginia is following suit.
The Harris-Walz campaign wants voters to understand that the Democratic ticket will fight to restore abortion rights, while Donald Trump and JD Vance have a record of supporting less reproductive freedom.
