About three months into conceiving their second child last fall, the young South Carolina couple was given an earth-shattering prognosis. And two grim choices. Based on multiple genetic tests and an ultrasound that indicated the baby was not growing normally, a maternal-fetal medicine specialist suspected triploidy, a deadly genetic disorder in which chromosomes are tripled […].
The case has already produced the expected political clash over reproductive health rights. A Louisiana grand jury indicted a New York doctor and a Baton Rouge-area mother Friday on felony charges for allegedly causing a criminal abortion by giving her pregnant teen daughter medication obtained through the mail.
Soon afterward, officials from both states immediately went public with their stances on the case. It is the first criminal […]. A Baton Rouge-area grand jury indicted a New York doctor and a Louisiana mother Friday on felony charges for allegedly providing an illegal abortion with drugs obtained through the mail. It is the first criminal case of its kind in the country since the U.
Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in , which triggered […]. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. And […]. Erika Christensen decided to become a patient advocate for abortion later in pregnancy after she had to travel from New York to Colorado to get a third-trimester abortion.
At that time in , New York banned abortion after 24 weeks of pregnancy, and only […]. Since the U. A sample of more than 7, women nationwide […]. Most abortion-rights ballot measures succeeded this year, but November marked the first time since the U. Wade that some citizen-led bids to restore access failed. Prince and her staff were prepared for Indiana to ban abortion, and started trying to move operations to Danville, Illinois, in Abortion Policy.
