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cont[rump]inuing [mag]attacks on reproductive rights

Posted in Kids with tags , , , , , , , , , , , , , on June 26, 2025 by xi'an

[From the Center for Reproductive Rights:]

Cancelling the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act (EMTALA), which was requiring hospitals to provide life-saving abortion care

Blocking funding from Title X, a federal program dedicated to providing family planning and preventive reproductive health care services

Supporting the Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act (H.R. 21)

Removing information on reproductive health and rights from government websites, like ReproductiveRights.gov

Abstaining from enforcing the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances (FACE) Act, that protects reproductive health care patients and providers from violence and harassment, by ordering prosecutors to ignore violations, and pardoning individuals convicted of violating the Act

Joining a global anti-abortion pact, along with Uganda, Saudi Arabia and Belarus

Reinstating the global gag rule, denying aid to overseas health centres that provide or support abortion services and counselling

Joining a case against Planned Parenthood

Cutting funding to the United Nations Population Fund

Overturning the previous regulation that prohibited states from defunding abortion facilities as part of their family planning programs

Enforcing a separate payment requirement for abortion coverage in Obamacare

Stopping federal funding of fætal tissue research

Prioritising healthcare entities and individuals’ conscience rights

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mixed news on the Western [abortion] front

Posted in Books, Kids, Travel with tags , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on May 6, 2024 by xi'an

In the past weeks, a mix of negative and positive moves about abortion in Europe and the USA (which among other bans resuscitated a 1864 near-total abortion ban in Arizona and saw sad-faced Mike Pence complain in TNYT (!) about mad-hatter and opportunist Donald Trump “retreat from the pro-life cause”):

France has added that “The law determines the conditions by which is exercised the freedom of women to voluntarily terminate a pregnancy, which is guaranteed” to the Article 34 of the French Constitution, which is intended to make access to abortion a fundamental right but still remains a formal move as it can be reinterpreted restrictively (which conditions?!) and does not state anything about the practical side of universally ensuring this access, which might be severely hindered by a dearth of willing practicians or the introduction of constraints on clinics, as seen for many years in the US, prior to the revocation of Roe vs. Wade.

Poland has seen its MPs from its lower house vote on four bills on abortion for further study, of which two propose legalising abortion until the 12th week of pregnancy and cancel the current quasi-complete ban on abortion.

Germany Bundestag is working on a bill that would outlaw the intimidation of people around abortion clinics offering abortion. The country should however more much further by making abortion legal, which is not the case now (even though there are “exceptions for abortions with counseling in the first trimester, and for medically necessary abortions [incl. or serious social or emotional distress] and abortions due to unlawful sexual acts”) and actual access to abortion practitioners proves a challenge. The Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and the far-right Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) are unsurprisingly opposing this legalisation.

Italy saw Meloni’s far-right government allowing anti-abortion activists to enter abortion consultation clinics!!, as part of a package of measures funded by the EU!!!. with the [newspeak] argument that they “must not criminalise those who are against abortion. [The Government has] always allowed freedom of conscience on issues of this kind [and] believe it is right for everyone to behave according to their own beliefs and conscience.”

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