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 […]
Tag: abortion
Feb. 11 letters to the editor
Lawmakers can do more to protect women I fail to understand how our Legislature continues to get it so wrong! The women of West Virginia should be protected from […]
Two key antiabortion studies retracted as junk science. Will SCOTUS care?
by Michael Hiltzik If the effort to ban medication abortion now before the Supreme Court demonstrates anything, it’s that the damage caused in our society by junk science can be […]
House, Senate move measures dealing with voting and students
MORGANTOWN – A voting measure and a handful of bills dealing with students and students’ healthcare cleared the House and Senate on Tuesday. HJR 21 proposes a constitutional amendment to […]
Notes from under the gold dome
Some thoughts about a couple of pieces of legislation at the state house: The first is a resolution. Delegate Kayla Young (D-Kanawha) has introduced House Joint Resolution 27 calling for […]
Post-Roe America’s national shame: 65,000 forced pregnancies
by Lisa Jarvis It’s now been about a year and a half since the Supreme Court’s decision to revoke the constitutional right to abortion. Over that time, new data has […]
Barbara Fleischauer takes job with Feminist Majority, won’t seek House of Delegates seat
MORGANTOWN – Former Delegate Barbara Evans Fleischauer has taken a job with the Feminist Majority, a national women’s rights organization. She informed the Monongalia County Democratic Executive Committee and announced […]
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 […]
