Robin Marty is the Senior Political Reporter for RH Reality Check. A freelance writer and editor, Robin has spent the last three years tracking state restrictions on reproductive health care rights. Robin’s political, women’s rights and reproductive articles and personal writings have appeared at Ms. Magazine, Truth Out, Alternet, BlogHer and Care2. Robin lives in Minneapolis with her husband and three children. Robin can be reached at robin@rhrealitycheck.org
Everyone is a target just for allowing abortion to exist, and anti-choicers don’t care who might be caught in the crossfire.
With less access to quality preventive care, and more money heading to deceptive crisis pregnancy centers, the 2013 legislative session was another tough one for women.
A closed investigation into Dr. Douglas Karpen in Houston is re-opening amid anti-choice pressure.
The good news is that an employer can’t restrict an employee’s birth control coverage. But they can limit access to coverage for abortion.
Oklahoma’s governor has signed into law a bill that will make getting an abortion much more difficult for teens, while in Louisiana a new bill would make it possible to charge parents with child abuse for “coercing” daughters into abortion.
Clinic operators have informed the health department that the clinic will no longer use methotrexate orally and filed a “quality improvement plan” with the department.
An amended bill has clarified that women seeking medication abortions would only need to make three trips to a clinic, not the potential four trips bill opponents feared.
HB 370 would let employers opt out of birth control coverage for employees in company health insurance plans if the employer finds birth control “immoral.”
The North Carolina senate voted 38-10 Monday on a bill that will list abortion as one of the causes of preterm labor, despite a lack of medical research supporting the claim.
Women in Pennsylvania went to Gosnell because they couldn’t afford quality care. Now, some lawmakers in the state want to make safe abortion care even harder to access for low-income women.
