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Injunction Stops Oklahoma Ultrasound Law From Going Into Effect
Monday, a district judge issued an injunction to stop the enforcement of an Oklahoma law that would require women to undergo an ultrasound one hour prior to obtaining abortion care and listen to an explanation from the medical professional performing the ultrasound while the image was displayed where she could see it. NAF member clinic…
Read MoreNAF Member: How Nebraska’s Anti-choice Legislators “Protect” Women’s Health
This week, NAF board member Carole Joffe, author of Doctors of Conscience and the recently released Dispatches from the Abortion Wars, published an article about recent anti-choice legislation in Nebraska. Published on RH Reality Check, the article reads in part: Not only is Nebraska’s Women’s Health Protection Act impossible for providers to comply with, this…
Read MorePress Conference: Abortion and the G8 Summit
This week, we held a press conference in Ottawa with other leading Canadian women’s and reproductive rights organizations to address family planning and abortion care in the G8 maternal and child health initiative. Following the press conference, we delivered letters signed by more than 100 international organizations and government officials from the G8 and other…
Read MoreNAF Member: Anti-Choice Woman-Hating Goes Mainstream
NAF board member Carole Joffe, author of Doctors of Conscience and the recently released Dispatches from the Abortion Wars, has just published an article about recent anti-choice actions, from the ongoing controversy over Sister Mary Margaret McBride to Oklahoma’s just-passed ultrasound law. Published on RH Reality Check, the article reads in part: Do these examples…
Read MoreNebraska Restricts Abortion Access
This week, Nebraska governor Dave Heineman (R) signed a law banning most abortions in the state after 20 weeks gestation based on unsubstantiated claims that a fetus has the capacity to feel pain. The law is scheduled to go into effect on October 15. “There is certainly no solid scientific evidence establishing that a fetus…
Read MoreAustin, Texas City Council Votes to Regulate Crisis Pregnancy Centers
Last week, the Austin, TX City Council voted unanimously to require Crisis Pregnancy Centers (CPCs) that don’t offer or refer clients for abortion care or birth control services to post signs with that information at their facilities. This ordinance comes two months after the Baltimore, MD City Council passed a similar law requiring CPCs without…
Read MoreJustice John Paul Stevens Retires from the Supreme Court
Today we issued the following statement: Throughout his 35 years on the Supreme Court, Justice John Paul Stevens has been an influential member of the Court known for his protection of civil rights and civil liberties. We thank him for his years of dedicated public service, and wish him well in his retirement. Justice Stevens…
Read MoreState News Round-Up
Anti-choice legislators in the states continue to restrict women’s access to abortion care by passing bills that ban health insurance coverage for abortion, interfere in the doctor-patient relationship, and place an undue burden on both women and their health care providers. Last week, the Tennessee House Commerce Committee passed a bill that would eliminate insurance…
Read MoreMan Arrested for Threatening NAF Member
A Dallas man is facing federal charges for threatening NAF member Southwestern Women’s Surgery Center in Dallas, TX. Erlyndon Joseph Lo, 27, went to the Plano federal courthouse last Friday and filed a court document saying that at noon that day, he was planning to go to the clinic and “use deadly force…,” according to…
Read MoreNAF Board Member Profiled in The Washington Post
Today, The Washington Post profiled abortion provider and NAF Board Member Dr. Carol Ball. Dr. Ball is one of four physicians who travel from out of state to provide abortions in South Dakota, which has not had an in-state provider of elective abortions since 1994. South Dakota has seen some of the fiercest challenges to…
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