Abortion
In the News
The majority of state attacks on reproductive health have targeted access to abortion care. Some efforts are bans on specific procedures or bans based on gestational age or the reasons the woman is seeking an abortion. Insurance coverage for abortion has also come under attack with laws limiting both private and public coverage. Other efforts put barriers between women and abortion care by interfering with aspects of a woman's medical care, for example with medication abortion and TRAP laws. This includes requiring medically unnecessary procedures, such as mandatory ultrasounds, as well as waiting periods, biased counseling and parental involvement laws, all of which delay or impede women from accessing abortion services and add significant emotional stress and expense to the process. This also includes laws and litigation around crisis pregnancy centers (CPC), which interfere with women's access to adequate health care services.
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N.C. House Approves Bill Prohibiting Abortion Coverage in State Insurance Marketplace |
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Okla. Gov. Approves Stricter Parental Consent Requirements |
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Challengers to Ark. 12-Week Abortion Ban Argue Case Should Go Forward Now |
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Mo. Bill Requiring Physician's Presence During Medication Abortion Goes to Gov. |
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N.C. Senate Passes Education Bill Claiming Link Between Abortion, Preterm Births |
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AT-A-GLANCE
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Repro Health Watch — an exciting new edition of the Women’s Health Policy Report — compiles and distributes media coverage of proposed and enacted state laws and ballot initiatives affecting women's access to comprehensive reproductive health care, as well as litigation in response to those provisions.
