Ginsburg Got It Right: Poor Women Are Getting Screwed By Hobby Lobby. Five Reasons That Hobby Lobby Decision Is Bananas — TheLi.st @ Medium. What's Next For Massachusetts Now That It Can't Have Buffer Zones Around Abortion Clinics. The 12 Best Hobby Lobby Signs At The Supreme Court Today. By Tara Culp-Ressler , Abigail Bessler, and Shannon Greenwood.
3 Lies About Birth Control That Were Just Reinforced By The Hobby Lobby Ruling. By Tara Culp-Ressler "3 Lies About Birth Control That Were Just Reinforced By The Hobby Lobby Ruling" A protester outside of the Supreme Court on Monday CREDIT: ThinkProgress On Monday, the Supreme Court ruled in favor of two for-profit businesses that object to covering certain types of birth control, determining that family-owned companies should be able to seek exemptions to Obamacare’s contraceptive mandate based on their owners’ religious beliefs.
The reproductive rights community is condemning the decision for setting a dangerous precedent for women’s health care. Tennessee Arrests First Mother Under Its New Pregnancy Criminalization Law. By Tara Culp-Ressler "Tennessee Arrests First Mother Under Its New Pregnancy Criminalization Law" CREDIT: Shutterstock At the beginning of July, 26-year-old Mallory Loyola gave birth to a baby girl.
Two days later, the state of Tennessee charged her with assault. Loyola is the first woman to be arrested under a new law in Tennessee that allows the state to criminally charge mothers for potentially causing harm to their fetuses by using drugs. The legislation, which officially took effect about a week ago, stipulates that “a woman may be prosecuted for assault for the illegal use of a narcotic drug while pregnant, if her child is born addicted to or harmed by the narcotic drug.”
The Supreme Court Just Made It Harder For Women To Exercise Their Right To Choose. By Tara Culp-Ressler "The Supreme Court Just Made It Harder For Women To Exercise Their Right To Choose" CREDIT: AP Photo/Susan Walsh The Supreme Court unanimously struck down Massachusetts’ abortion buffer zone law on Thursday, ruling in favor of anti-choice protesters who argued that being required to stay 35 feet away from clinic entrances is a violation of their freedom of speech.
The decision rolls back a proactive policy intended to safeguard women’s access to reproductive health care in the face of persistent harassment and intimidation from abortion opponents. “By its very terms, the Act restricts access to ‘public way[s]‘ and ‘sidewalk[s],’ places that have traditionally been open for speech activities and that the Court has accordingly labeled ‘traditional public fora,’ ” the opinion states. Reproductive rights advocates had been hoping the justices would uphold the policy, which they say has gone a long way to ensure that woman can safely enter abortion clinics. What Today's Supreme Court Ruling Means For Other Laws That Protect Clinic Patients. By Nicole Flatow "What Today’s Supreme Court Ruling Means For Other Laws That Protect Clinic Patients" CREDIT: AP Photo/Bill Sikes The U.S.
New Study Helps Explain Why Hobby Lobby Supporters Are So Fiercely Opposed To Birth Control. By Tara Culp-Ressler "New Study Helps Explain Why Hobby Lobby Supporters Are So Fiercely Opposed To Birth Control" A protester outside of the Supreme Court CREDIT: ThinkProgress Throughout the ongoing debate over Obamacare’s contraceptive coverage requirement, a common theme has emerged among many of Hobby Lobby’s supporters: the idea that ensuring access to affordable birth control is harmful to society because it leads to promiscuity and infidelity.
Clergy Protest Supreme Court By Handing Out Condoms At Hobby Lobby. By Jack Jenkins "Clergy Protest Supreme Court By Handing Out Condoms At Hobby Lobby" CREDIT: AP Photo/Ed Andrieski A group of clergy handed out condoms to customers in front of an Illinois Hobby Lobby store on Wednesday, staging a creative, faith-based protest against the U.S.
Supreme Court’s decision to grant the craft store giant religious exemptions from the Affordable Care Act’s contraception mandate. A Woman Wants To Tell You The 5 Most Surprising Things About Her Abortion. Click image to Zoom I ate lunch alone at my desk before driving to the clinic for our appointment.
In the two weeks since my husband and I found out at our 20-week sonogram that our fetus was abnormal, I’d barely left the house. My entire world collapsed. The baby I had loved since before he was conceived was deemed by doctors “incompatible with life.” My husband told me about a senator from Fort Worth who was filibustering HB-2, a series of restrictions on abortions in Texas that includes a ban on abortions after 20 weeks. Attorneys Confirm The Brain-Dead Texas Woman's Fetus Suffers From Severe Abnormalities. By Tara Culp-Ressler "Attorneys Confirm The Brain-Dead Texas Woman’s Fetus Suffers From Severe Abnormalities" Marlise Muñoz’s husband, Erick, who is suing the Texas hospital CREDIT: AP Photo/The Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Ron T.
Ennis The lawyers representing Marlise Muñoz’s family members, who are suing the Texas hospital that refuses to remove the brain dead woman from life support, have released a statement confirming that Muñoz’s fetus is “distinctly abnormal.” Despite the fact that Muñoz is clinically brain dead, and therefore considered to be deceased under Texas law, hospital officials have been keeping her body on life support because she was 14 weeks pregnant when she lost consciousness.
Muñoz’s family has repeatedly pointed out that the fetus may have suffered severe abnormalities as a result of Muñoz’s brain death. According to the lawyers, the fetus has severe deformities in its lower extremities, so its gender is impossible to determine. Mujer de Texas, EU, será mantenida con vida artificial para completar embarazo; la familia se opone. Dallas, 5 Ene (Notimex).- Una mujer con muerte cerebral será mantenida con vida mediante respiración artificial pese a la oposición de su familia, hasta que su cuerpo incube el feto que alberga para cumplir con las leyes de Texas.
El hospital John Peter Smith en Fort Worth, Texas, informó que cumplirá con la ley cuando un embarazo esté involucrado, aún cuando esto signifique ignorar los deseos de la familia. Marlise Muñoz, de 33 años, tenía 14 semanas de embarazo a finales de noviembre pasado cuando sufrió una embolia pulmonar, luego de la sospecha de que un coágulo de sangre se fue a sus pulmones y obstruyó la respiración. Cuando su esposo Erick la encontró, ella no respiraba y no tenía pulso. Erick Macías, de profesión paramédico, al igual que su esposa, le aplicó la reanimación cardiopulmonar y llamó a una ambulancia. De acuerdo con los médicos, la mujer permaneció sin respiración por mucho tiempo para poder alguna vez recuperarse, por lo que se le ha declarado con muerte cerebral. Sarah Slamen (@VictorianPrude) at the Texas Senate Committee Meeting Re: SB1 (The Abortion Bill)
Justice Kennedy Thinks Hobby Lobby Is An Abortion Case. By Ian Millhiser "Justice Kennedy Thinks Hobby Lobby Is An Abortion Case — That’s Bad News For Birth Control" Justice Anthony Kennedy CREDIT: AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes WASHINGTON, DC — Justice Anthony Kennedy thinks gay people are fabulous. Meet America's Most Hated Doctors. How Texas’ abortion law scares women out of seeking care. Shortly after Texas passed its sweeping abortion restrictions in 2013, researchers at the University of Texas released a report estimating that 22,000 women would be denied medical care as a result of clinic closures and service reductions across the state. Put another way, Texas’ draconian new law will strip roughly one in every three women seeking an abortion of the ability to meaningfully exercise that choice.
But talk to clinic workers and women in Texas, and you will hear another important barrier to access that is about more than just long trips to providers, the cost burden and other impediments. There is a creeping mentality among Texas women that abortion is simply not an option in their state, that the procedure has become so heavily stigmatized to the point where many women likely don’t consider the option when they become pregnant. It’s a problem Olga Khazan ran up against while reporting a story for the Atlantic on the crisis unfolding in Texas. You can read the rest here. After Hearing Someone Shame Women Who Have Abortions, She Bravely Spoke Out About Her Own. National Abortion Rate Sees Huge Drop As More Women Are Using Birth Control. The Side Effect Of Birth Control No One Ever Talks About. Rep. Jackie Speier (D-CA) on Abortion.