abortion ban

Need an abortion in Florida?  If one politician has his way, your doctor would serve a life sentence.

Nevada's attempt at defining a fertilized egg as a "prenatal person" seems likely never to make it past petition stage.

The Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on State, Foreign Affairs, and Related Programs has passed a bill that would amend the current total ban on abortion care for Peace Corps volunteers by allowing the Corps to provide access to safe abortion services in cases of sexual assault, incest or life endangerment.

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The Polish Parliament is considering a total ban on abortions, with no exceptions for the life of women. Meanwhile, women remain without access to safe, legal abortion even under current exceptions; abuse of conscience clauses to deny women both contraception and abortion is rampant; and the medical establishment is making millions off of clandestine illegal abortion.

Finally, a legislature is considering the costs of losing federal funding before passing an unconstitutional bill.

Rhode Island's legislative agenda on abortion; Louisiana state rep introduces abortion ban; and Rwanda unveils national campaign to address cervical cancer.

In anti-choicers latest stunt, a fetus is scheduled to testify in front of Ohio lawmakers in support of a bill that would make all abortions illegal after the detection of a fetal heartbeat. 

Stigmatizing abortion is inherently harmful to women's health. When abortion is inaccessible either legally, financially or physically, women are more likely to turn to the back alley.