This week in good, bad and weird reproductive health news: An anti-abortion activist fetishizes ultrasounds*in Idaho;*October Baby, a feature film about a "failed abortion survivor," has Christian audiences raving; five executives quit Susan G. Komen for the Cure; and a study finds gynecologists...
News outlets report on state initiatives to limit abortions by requiring an ultrasound before the procedure. "Over the last decade, ultrasound has quietly become a new front in the grinding state-by-state battle over abortion," The New York Times reports. "With backing from anti-abortion groups...
Various states have passed or are considering bills to tighten abortion regulations. "Florida's Republican-led Senate pushed through an 11th-hour provision Wednesday that would require women seeking an abortion in their first trimester of pregnancy to pay for ultrasound exams ... unless they...
Various states have passed or are considering bills to tighten abortion regulations. "Florida's Republican-led Senate pushed through an 11th-hour provision Wednesday that would require women seeking an abortion in their first trimester of pregnancy to pay for ultrasound exams ... unless they...
Various states have passed or are considering bills to tighten abortion regulations. "Florida's Republican-led Senate pushed through an 11th-hour provision Wednesday that would require women seeking an abortion in their first trimester of pregnancy to pay for ultrasound exams ... unless they...
Various states have passed or are considering bills to tighten abortion regulations. "Florida's Republican-led Senate pushed through an 11th-hour provision Wednesday that would require women seeking an abortion in their first trimester of pregnancy to pay for ultrasound exams ... unless they...
The West Virginia House Health and Human Resources Committee on Monday voted 16-9 to approve a bill (HB 4517) that would require physicians to give women the opportunity to view an ultrasound image at least one hour before performing an abortion, the Charleston Gazette reports. According to the...
The West Virginia House Health and Human Resources Committee on Monday voted 16-9 to approve a bill (HB 4517) that would require physicians to give women the opportunity to view an ultrasound image at least one hour before performing an abortion, the Charleston Gazette reports. According to the...
The Kentucky Senate on Monday voted 32-4 to approve a bill (SB 38) that would require physicians to show women an ultrasound and describe "the dimensions of the embryo or fetus and the presence of external members and internal organs, if present and viewable," the Louisville Courier-Journal...