Florida

Notable bills on verge of dying as Florida’s legislative session nears an end
By Ana Goñi-Lessan, News Service of Florida
For the third time, Sen. Erin Grall, R-Fort Pierce, this year filed a measure (SB 164) to give parents the ability to sue for damages for the wrongful death of an unborn child.

Surrogacy and adoption ban added to Florida’s foreign interference bill
By Ana Goñi-Lessan, News Service of Florida
A bill critics say would disrupt the ability of American citizens to adopt children or use a surrogate from China passed through the House on Tuesday.

Taxpayer dollars flood pregnancy centers. Oversight hasn’t followed.
By Anna Claire Vollers, Kelcie Moseley-Morris, Nada Hassanein Shalina Chatlani Sofia Resnick, States Newsroom
Có liên quan: ‘What’s your plan for this pregnancy?’ Comfort, shame and a missed diagnosis
Có liên quan: Federal funding for people in poverty heading to anti-abortion centers instead
The patient came in with a belly full of blood, Dr. Leilah Zahedi-Spung recalled.

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Bills that would classify abortion as homicide fizzle, while pill crackdowns advance
By Elisha Brown, States Newsroom
Some Republican lawmakers have routinely proposed criminally prosecuting women for getting abortions since the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, despite bipartisan condemnation and criticism from national anti-abortion organizations.

US moving pregnant immigrant girls to Texas to avoid providing abortions, critics say
By Melody Schreiber, The Guardian
All unaccompanied immigrant children who are pregnant, many by rape, are being moved to a single facility in Texas in order to avoid providing abortion services in a significant human rights violation, critics say.

Arguing an abortion procedure is unlawfully barbaric worked once. Will it work again?
By Sofia Resnick, States Newsroom
There is a content warning on page 7 of a friend-of-the-court brief recently submitted in a high-stakes abortion medication case by women who say they were injured or traumatized from taking the pills.

Telehealth abortion is in the courts. Share your experience.
Staff Report, NPR
Mifepristone is facing another major legal challenge.

By Elizabeth Tobin-Tyler, Health Affairs
National epidemiologic studies of trends in violence against women in the US provide evidence that directly contradicts the legal arguments in these cases: restricted access to abortion increases reproductive coercion and intimate partner violence.

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Early prenatal care declines across US, reversing years of progress
By Anna Claire Vollers, States Newsroom
Nearly a quarter of pregnant women aren’t getting prenatal care in the early stages of pregnancy, according to a new analysis from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.