Official’s Opposition to IVF Protection Bill ‘Steeped in Fetal Personhood,’ Abortion Fund Organizer Says
Republican lawmakers who are trying to protect in-vitro fertilization treatments risk legalizing “back-door abortion,” a state official claims.
Republican lawmakers who are trying to protect in-vitro fertilization treatments risk legalizing “back-door abortion,” a state official claims.
Mississippi Republicans introduced bills in January to make “abortion trafficking,” advertising abortion information and mail-in abortion pills criminal offenses.
Legislative efforts in Missouri and Mississippi are attempting to prevent voters from having a say over abortion rights.
A federal appeals court should block access to the abortion pill mifepristone nationwide, including in states where it remains legal, Mississippi’s attorney general and four state Republican members of Congress told a three-judge panel in briefs filed Wednesday.
A conservative litigation group filed a lawsuit this week to overturn Pro-Choice Mississippi v. Fordice, with the goal of ending what may be a legal loophole protecting abortion rights in Mississippi.
Just over a month after the State of Mississippi succeeded in getting the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn Roe v. Wade, the traditionally conservative State of Kansas voted overwhelmingly on Tuesday night to keep protections for abortion rights in their state constitution.
A majority of voters in Mississippi, the state whose leaders successfully petitioned the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn Roe v. Wade in June, disagree with the ruling and support some form of legal abortion, a new survey shows.
U.S. Sens. Cindy Hyde-Smith and Roger Wicker of Mississippi are among a group of nine Republicans who on Wednesday unveiled Senate Bill 4512, The Unborn Child Support Act, which would require fathers to pay child support starting in “the first month in which the child was conceived, as determined by a physician.”
Pink House Defender Derenda Hancock felt numb as she stood outside the entrance to the Jackson Women’s Health Organization, waving her arms to beckon abortion patients to ignore the anti-abortion protesters accosting their cars and pull on into the parking lot. The night before, on Monday, May 2, a draft of the ruling in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization had leaked, indicating the U.S. Supreme Court’s intentions to overturn Roe v. Wade.
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