Antiabortionists caught by 'murder' trap Column


Prosecutor Drops Abortion Charge in Queens Murder Case, Stirring Debate

Abortion rights opponents across the country want to charge women with murder A small but growing faction of the anti-abortion movement is calling for patients to be criminally punished. It's.


Tracking the States Where Abortion Is Now Banned in the U.S. The New

Culture Politics Abortion Is Not Murder Even if we granted the most generous possible terms to the anti-abortion camp, even if we pretended the fetus was fully rational and contemplating.


Opinion How Republicans Hurt the Fight Against Abortion The New

The pills provided in advance by Aid Access were not covered by insurance, Aiken says. "We know that people struggle to afford, say, $100 even for abortion care they currently need," she says. "So.


Citizens, Not the State, Will Enforce New Abortion Law in Texas The

Abortion rights supporters protest the supreme court's decision in the Dobbs v Jackson Women's Health case in Driggs, Idaho, on 2 July 2022. Photograph: Natalie Behring/Getty Images


Abortion pills are safe and could ease growing access crisis for women

July 1, 2022 Saved Stories Before last week, women attempting to have their pregnancies terminated in states hostile to abortion rights already faced a litany of obstacles: lengthy drives,.


Can red states regulate abortions performed outside their borders? A

Killed by abortion laws: five women whose stories we must never forget As the US supreme court threatens to undo 49 years of access to safe and legal terminations, five women who died because of.


Ohio clinic halts abortions, quits court fight

Last week a Louisiana bill classifying abortion as murder was withdrawn after causing a firestorm of controversy, mainly for seeking to subject people seeking to end their own pregnancies to.


Those who decry both abortion and gun control are antiwoman, not pro

Anti-abortion legislators are pushing more restrictive policies across the U.S., she said, with lawmakers in some states with six-week bans pushing total bans, and some discussion of criminalizing.


Ohio lawmakers want to ban all abortions, charging doctors with murder

Pope Francis said on Wednesday that abortion is "murder", even soon after conception, but appeared to criticise some U.S. Catholic bishops for dealing with U.S. President Joe Biden's pro-choice.


Alabama doctors who perform abortions could face up to 99 years in

4. Fetal pain is difficult to define. A bit of biology that's often used to restrict abortions is the claim that fetuses (which form at week 11 of pregnancy) feel pain. "Pain is very complex.


Conservative Truth Pick Your Poison Homicide, Murder, Genocide

Some argue that believe abortion is a safe medical procedure that protects lives, while abortion bans endanger pregnant people not seeking abortions, and deny bodily autonomy, creating wide-ranging repercussions, while others argue that abortion is murder because life begins at conception, that abortion creates a culture in which life is disposable, and that increased access to birth control.


Abortion law Illinois may pass Reproductive Health Act, expand rights

An Anti-Abortion Strategy Says Yes. - The New York Times Advertisement Is a Fetus a Person? An Anti-Abortion Strategy Says Yes. Fetal personhood, which confers legal rights from conception, is.


Alabama abortion law Rape victim who was pregnant at 13 speaks out

Abortion Involves Killing-and That's OK! To be pro-choice is to be against forced life. Sophie Lewis Share (Getty) In 2019, I published a kind of manifesto— Full Surrogacy Now —whose opening.


Antiabortionists caught by 'murder' trap Column

There is no way to seriously deny that abortion is a form of killing. At a less advanced stage of scientific understanding, it was possible to believe that the embryo or fetus was somehow inert.


Republicans will lose the ‘reasonableness’ fight on abortion The

Wade, but 2024 is starting amid a wave of news about court cases and laws restricting abortion access in the United States — and there's even more decisions on the horizon. In recent days, the.


Activists shifting abortion debate to human rights

Abortion is the termination of a pregnancy by removal or expulsion of an embryo or fetus.. the first person to be executed in the United States for murdering an abortion provider. Legal protection of access to abortion has been brought into some countries where abortion is legal. These laws typically seek to protect abortion clinics from.