by Robin Abcarian Warren Hern is every bit as intense as you would expect of someone who has been threatened with death for most of his career. One of the […]
Tag: abortion ban
Florida’s abortion ban shows the hypocrisy of ‘Right to Life’
by Mary Ellen Klas Florida abortion providers began turning patients away from their clinics this week, even before the state’s six-week ban took effect Wednesday. The state’s mandatory 24-hour waiting […]
As a pregnant law professor in Arizona, I fear the abortion ban
by Caitlin Millat I am 19 weeks pregnant, a legal scholar and a resident of Arizona, whose highest court last Tuesday upheld a 160-year-old law banning nearly all abortions, even […]
IVF: Compromise isn’t out of reach
Belatedly, Alabama lawmakers have passed a bill protecting access to in vitro fertilization. The measure came two weeks after the state Supreme Court ruled that frozen embryos should be considered […]
Abortion access is popular. Legislators want to ban it entirely
There is a vocal group of extreme anti-abortion West Virginians, but despite their outsized presence in the Capitol’s halls, they are a statistical minority. Several polls show West Virginians support […]
Pennsylvania Supreme Court takes aim at politics of cruelty
by Francis Wilkinson The Pennsylvania Supreme Court delivered a victory to abortion-rights advocates in directing a lower court to consider a challenge to the state’s 1982 prohibition on Medicaid funding […]
The harsh legal reality of ‘fetal personhood’
by Grace E. Howard On Oct. 17, the North Carolina Court of Appeals terminated a woman’s parental rights because of abuse that occurred when she was 4 months pregnant. Why? […]
Jan. 7 letters to the editor
On abortion, Hoppy just doesn’t get it “The data show that [post-Dobbs anti-abortion legislation] has prevented abortions within the state boundaries, but it has not stopped women from seeking abortions […]
Border state abortions are on the rise
Data show that in recent years between 1,000 and 1,200 abortions were performed annually in West Virginia. But that was before the Dobbs decision, which overturned Roe vs. Wade and […]
‘Pro-life’ politicians sell a fantasy. Here’s reality
Pro-life politicians are the world’s best salesmen. They sell the fantasy of every baby born perfect, with 10 fingers and 10 toes and scrunched pink faces and chubby little fists. […]
