by Jessica Mason Pieklo, Senior Legal Analyst, RH Reality Check

July 25, 2012 - 10:17 pm

The Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals gave constitutional protection to misleading women seeking abortion care. Now it will almost certainly rest on Justice Kennedy to address challenges to informed consent laws, problems with which can be traced back to him in the first place.

by Jodi Jacobson, Editor in Chief, RH Reality Check

July 25, 2012 - 3:50 pm

“Research” and “findings” on which the 8th Circuit Court of Appeals relied for evidence in considering a law mandating that doctors tell women abortion is linked to higher rates of suicide has been found by a large number of researchers and medical bodies to be “an outright lie.”

by Jodi Jacobson, Editor in Chief, RH Reality Check

July 25, 2012 - 10:56 am

Despite ample evidence that there is no link between abortion and suicide, a federal appeals court decides its okay for South Dakota to require doctors to lie to women.