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 unborn children under the law. Three fertility clinics had suspended treatments, citing ...
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 at least some access to abortion: A 2019 poll showed two-thirds of respondents believed ...
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 sexual assault in their marriages, not have sane nurses removed from our hospitals. We need you to help us feed our ...
Former West Virginia Delegate Barbara Evans Fleischauer announced this week that she will not be running for office this year. Instead, she has taken a position with the Feminist Majority, a national women’s rights organization whose sister company publishes the famous Ms. ...
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 in other states.” — Hoppy Kercheval (DP-12-29-23). What an absurd conclusion ...
by Lisa Jarvis The U.S. Supreme Court next year will decide whether more restrictions should be placed on mifepristone, part of a two-drug regimen for medication abortion. Although mifepristone doesn’t seem to be at risk of being yanked from the market entirely, if the court sides ...