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Maternal Health Pledge Must Include Access to Safe Abortion Care
Today, I issued the following statement: Last week, Prime Minister Harper announced that he plans to make maternal health in the developing world a priority when he hosts the G8 summit in June. If the Prime Minister is truly serious about improving women’s health internationally, his initiatives must address the comprehensive maternal and reproductive health…
Read MoreMontgomery County (MD) Regulates Crisis Pregnancy Centers
This week, the Montgomery County Council in Maryland passed a bill that requires pregnancy centers without licensed medical professionals to post signs telling women that they are not receiving information from medical professionals. This bill is expected to affect the operations of crisis pregnancy centers (CPCs), the majority of which do not have medical professionals…
Read MoreRoeder Found Guilty of First Degree Murder
Today we released the following statement: Today in just 37 minutes, the jury in Wichita found Scott Roeder guilty of first degree murder and two counts of aggravated assault. While this verdict won’t bring back Dr. Tiller, it is important that justice was served. Important for the safety and security of other abortion providers and…
Read MoreNational Abortion Federation and ACLU Ask Court To Preclude Voluntary Manslaughter Charge In Trial Of Dr. Tiller’s Murderer
Today we issued this statement announcing a friend-of-the-court brief filed by the American Civil Liberties Union on behalf of the National Abortion Federation: The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) today filed a friend-of-the-court brief on behalf of the National Abortion Federation, the ACLU, and the ACLU of Kansas in the trial of Scott Roeder, the…
Read MoreNAF Member Shares Stories of Providers, Patients in New Book
NAF member Carole Joffe has just published a new book, Dispatches from the Abortion Wars: The Costs of Fanaticism to Doctors, Patients, and the Rest of Us. After thirty years embedded in reproductive-health research, Joffe relays compelling testimony from doctors, health care workers, and patients as they struggle against barriers that attempt to shame women…
Read MoreKansas Judge Rejects Change of Venue and “Necessity Defense” in Scott Roeder Trial
Statement of Vicki Saporta, President and CEO of the National Abortion Federation (NAF) in response to the pre-trial hearing for Scott Roeder: Today Judge Warren Wilbert denied the requests of Scott Roeder’s defense team to move the trial venue out of Sedgwick County, Kansas, as well as to introduce the so-called “necessity defense” as justification…
Read MoreNAF Patients in the News
Last night, the Senate defeated the Nelson-Hatch Amendment, which would have imposed the same restrictions to insurance coverage for abortion as the Stupak-Pitts Amendment passed by the House. Yesterday, Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) cited some of our patient’s stories during debate on the Senate floor. Today, Women’s eNews profiled one of the patients we brought…
Read MoreIllinois Parental Notification Law Halted for 2009
An Illinois circuit court judge has upheld a restraining order preventing enforcement of a parental notification law. The law, which was originally scheduled to go into effect on November 2, would require physicians to notify a parent or guardian before a minor obtains abortion care. The restraining order will be in effect through the end…
Read MoreIllinois Parental Notification Law Halted
Yesterday, an Illinois court halted the state’s parental notification law, shortly after the Illinois Medical Disciplinary Board decided the state could begin enforcing the law. The temporary restraining order was based on a lawsuit filed in October by a Chicago physician and a women’s medical center in Granite City who believe the law is unconstitutional…
Read MoreNewsweek Examines Anti-Choice Legislative Strategy
Yesterday, Newsweek.com featured an article about the efforts of abortion opponents to put “personhood” initiatives on ballots across the country. Led by the new anti-choice organization Personhood USA, these initiatives aim to revise state constitutions to define a fertilized egg as a person. Seven state-level groups are currently gathering signatures for 2010 ballots. A similar…
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