Bans on abortion and transgender care have criminalized …
4 days ago · Politically motivated state laws that ban abortion and transgender care have criminalized essential medical care, risking the lives of patients and the careers of doctors who try to treat them, two physicians told academic medicine leaders on Nov. 11 at Learn Serve Lead 2024: The AAMC Annual Meeting in Atlanta.. In the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court’s 2022 Dobbs decision, which revoked the ...
How strict abortion bans threaten health care for all women
Nov 4, 2024 · The Supreme Court's landmark 2022 overturning of Roe v. Wade has had an impact on women's health beyond abortion, accelerating a gap in obstetrics and gynecological care in some states across the ...
Bleeding and in pain, a woman endured a harrowing wait for
3 days ago · Had Avery Davis Bell had a miscarriage in Boston, where she lived until 2020, doctors could snap into action. But because she was having a miscarriage in a hospital in Georgia, surgery had to wait.
A shifting landscape of abortion policies means the way women
Oct 22, 2024 · More than 5,000 residents traveled out-of-state for an abortion in half of 2023, compared with about 1,100 in half of 2020, and more than 1,800 accessed medication abortion under shield laws.
Pregnancy deaths rose by 56% in Texas after 2021 abortion ... - NBC News
Sep 21, 2024 · The number of women in Texas who died while pregnant, during labor or soon after childbirth skyrocketed following the state’s 2021 ban on abortion care — far outpacing a slower rise in maternal...
Abortion providers — and patients — are on the move, as state …
Sep 17, 2024 · Over 170,000 people traveled out of their own state to receive abortion care in 2023, according to the institute. Not all of the increase in abortions comes from interstate travel. Telehealth...
Abortion Restrictions and the Threat to Women’s Health
May 19, 2023 · They outlined how abortion restrictions worsen health disparities, how states have responded to Roe’s dismantling, and the potential ramifications of litigation to restrict access to medication abortion for women across the country.
United States: Abortion bans put millions of women and girls at …
Jun 2, 2023 · Abortion bans in 14 States have made abortion services largely inaccessible and denied women and girls their fundamental human rights to comprehensive healthcare including sexual and reproductive health.
The dire health consequences of denying abortions, explained - Vox
Jun 24, 2022 · The Supreme Court’s ruling means more than 20 states are expected to quickly ban abortion in most cases, with half of those having “trigger laws” already on their books (meaning abortion bans...
Negative health implications of restricting abortion | News
Dec 13, 2021 · A recent study estimated that banning abortion in the U.S. would lead to a 21% increase in the number of pregnancy-related deaths overall and a 33% increase among Black women, simply because staying pregnant is more dangerous than having an abortion.