Recent Headlines
Obama Signs Government Spending Bill Without Planned Parenthood Defunding Language
President Obama on Friday signed a government spending measure that does not include language defunding Planned Parenthood, the Los Angeles Times reports.
Judge: Antiabortion-Rights Videos Could Endanger Filmed Abortion Providers
A federal judge at a hearing Friday said the recordings made by the antiabortion-rights group Center for Medical Progress did not show evidence of criminal wrongdoing, but that their release could put the abortion providers shown in the videos in danger, AP/Modern Healthcare reports.
NYT Urges SCOTUS To Uphold Women's Constitutional Protections, Rule Against Abortion Restrictions
Calling on the Supreme Court to protect women's right to abortion, a New York Times editorial states, "How many laws making it harder to get an abortion will pass before the Supreme Court sees them for what they are -- part of a tireless, coordinated nationwide assault on the right of women to control what happens with their own bodies without the interference of politicians?"
Video Round Up
In this clip, KMBC's Micheal Mahoney discusses comments made by former HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius at a Planned Parenthood conference in Kansas City, Mo.
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For CNN's "Anderson Cooper 360," CNN National Correspondent Gary Tuchman profiles the security measures in place at an abortion clinic, Cherry Hill Women's Center, in New Jersey.
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MSNBC's Rachel Maddow hears from Cecile Richards, president of Planned Parenthood Federation of America, in the wake of a deadly shooting at a Planned Parenthood clinic in Colorado.
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HuffPost Live! talks with Daniel Grossman, a professor of obstetrics and gynecology at the University of California-San Francisco, about a report that finds at least 100,000 Texas women have attempted to terminate a pregnancy without medical assistance.
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Yahoo! News' Katie Couric talks with activist Gloria Steinem on her decision to dedicate her latest book to the physician who helped her access abortion care in the 1950s
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An abortion provider talks with MSNBC's Melissa Harris-Perry about her experience with antiabortion-rights harassment.
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In this clip, NBC justice correspondent Pete Williams talks about the Supreme Court's decision to hear a challenge to parts of an omnibus Texas antiabortion-rights law (HB 2) in "the most notable abortion case in what could be two decades."
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NBC News Medical Contributor Natalie Azar, a physician, discusses the increase in long-acting reversible contraception use among U.S. women.
Datapoints
In this infographic, the Guttmacher Institute shows how the proportion of uninsured reproductive-age women in the U.S. declined from 17.9% in 2013 to 13.9% in 2014, the first year in which the Affordable Care Act was implemented fully.
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The Guttmacher Institute in this infographic counters antiabortion-rights claims that alternative providers could cover any gaps in health care services if Planned Parenthood is defunded.
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This map, released with a study from the University of Michigan Health System, shows how an increasing number of state Medicaid programs over the last three years are providing reimbursement for immediate postpartum LARC provision.
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This infographic, released with a new Guttmacher Institute study, shows the increase in use of long-acting reversible contraception among U.S. women between 2002 and 2012.
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This map marks the 15th anniversary of medication abortion's FDA approval by detailing certain restrictions on the drugs across the country. According toBuzzfeed News, lawmakers in 38 states have passed these medication abortion restrictions.
At a Glance
"If women are not free to make decisions about their own lives and health, they are not free. And if women are not free, none of us are."
— Abortion provider Warren Hern, in a STAT News opinion piece on why he continues to offer abortion care despite receiving harassment and death threats throughout his 42-year career.
