Florida

They Didn’t Want to Have C-Sections. A Judge Would Decide How They Gave Birth.
By Amy Yurkanin, ProPublica
On the afternoon of Sept. 9, 2024, Cherise Doyley was in her 12th hour of contractions at University of Florida Health in downtown Jacksonville when a nurse came in with a bedsheet and told her to cover up.

Reproductive rights advocates say they ‘dodged a bullet’ this Session
By Jacob Ogles, Florida Politics
With the Republican-controlled Legislature concluding the Regular Session, at least one group is happy with how little was accomplished.

Halt sought in Florida abortion drugs lawsuit
By Jim Saunders, State Affairs
Federal health officials want a judge to halt a lawsuit that Florida and Texas filed last year challenging more than two decades of decisions allowing abortion drugs.

Mobile maternity clinics can help improve Florida health care
By Adetola F. Louis-Jacques, Arielle Ayotte and Michelle Nall, Tampa Bay Times
Chỉ có ba trong số 14 quận ở miền bắc trung tâm Florida cung cấp đầy đủ các dịch vụ chăm sóc sản khoa.

Florida law allowing pregnant women to use disabled parking spaces faces backlash
By Dave Elias, WVZN Fort Myers
In Florida, a law passed last year allows pregnant women to use disabled parking spaces if they have a placard, but some disabled drivers are calling for its repeal unless it is medically necessary.

Memoir recounts a Florida mother’s journey through postpartum psychosis
By Rick Mayer and Matthew Peddie, Health News Florida
Days after the birth of her daughter, Pasco County writer Ayana Lage recalls hearing that loud voice.

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Rhetoric versus reality: Facts about the abortion pill
By Kelcie Moseley-Morris, States Newsroom
As telehealth access to abortion medication has grown in the years after the U.S. Supreme Court’s Dobbs decision, anti-abortion groups and attorneys general from states with abortion bans are accelerating efforts to ban access to the medication, including by attempting to revoke the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s approval.

U.S Rep files bill to strip abortion pill of FDA approval
By Chris Young, WMNF Tampa Bay
Last week, a U.S. senator filed a bill to strip FDA approval from the abortion pill Mifepristone.

Trump administration launches investigation of states that mandate health insurance covers abortion
By Geoff Mulvihill and Ali Swenson, Associated Press
The Trump administration said Thursday that it has launched investigations into 13 states that require state-regulated health insurance plans to cover abortion.

Reproductive health clinics scramble as Title X funding cliff approaches
By Selena Simmons-Duffin, NPR
A group of 128 Democratic members of Congress is calling on the federal government to prevent a funding shortfall for reproductive health clinics in two weeks.

Contraception services dropped after ‘defunding’ provision hit clinics
By Kelcie Moseley-Morris, States Newsroom
Visits for contraception and cancer screenings at Planned Parenthood clinics have dropped by double-digits after Congress passed a bill cutting off Medicaid funding to certain reproductive health care providers last year, according to a new Democratic congressional report.

A Georgia Hospital Turned Her In, Now She’s Charged With Murder
By Jessica Valenti and Kylie Cheung, Abortion, Every Day
A 31-year-old woman in Georgia has been charged with murder after allegedly taking abortion pills.

Unpopular abortion-homicide bills won’t fade, concerning reproductive rights advocates
Bởi Sofia Resnick, Florida Phoenix
Republican lawmakers in several states so far this year introduced bills that would legally treat abortion as homicide.

Abortion bans led to higher preterm birth rates among Black women, study finds
By Nada Hassanein, States Newsroom
Black women living in states with abortion bans were more likely to have preterm babies, compared with what would be expected in the absence of those bans, according to a study published in this month’s issue of the American Journal of Public Health.

How Blue States Got Around the GOP’s Efforts to Ban Abortion in Red States
By Nina Martin, Mother Jones
When Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill announced last month that she was planning to sue the governors of New York and California for refusing to extradite doctors accused of mailing abortion pills to her state, Gavin Newsom was unfazed.

Pregnancy Care Includes Abortion, Whether We Admit It or Not
By Jennifer Lincoln, Ms. Magazine
Here’s what I know as an OB-GYN: Any book about birth that ignores abortion access isn’t just incomplete—it’s dangerous.

The snip shift: March Madness used to drive vasectomies. Now abortion bans do.
By Shefali Luthra, The 19^th
“Vas Madness.” “Vasectomy Vacation.” Urologists have used these terms for years to signal that when real men get snipped, they get to watch sports on the couch.

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Majority of Americans Continue to Say Abortion Should Be Legal in All or Most Cases
By Hannah Hartig, Andy Cerda and Asta Kallo, Pew Research Center
Nearly four years after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, a majority of Americans continue to say abortion should be legal in all or most cases.