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Pressure mounts for NSW Health to improve abortion access statewide
By Joanna Woodburn

The NSW government is asked to explain what it is doing to guarantee and enhance access to abortions at public hospitals after temporary bans at some regional hospitals.

abc.net.au/news/2025-03-17/pre

ABC News · NSW Health urged to outline actions underway to expand abortion accessBy Joanna Woodburn

Missouri AG issues order barring Planned Parenthood clinics from providing medication abortions

"AG Bailey's attempt to gin up a fake story and score political points is a clear attempt to threaten and intimidate the state's only abortion providers, but Planned Parenthood will not be deterred," leaders stated Wednesday in a press release before the desist order was issued.

stltoday.com/news/local/crime-

STLtoday.comMissouri AG issues order barring Planned Parenthood clinics from providing medication abortionsMissouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey’s office on Wednesday issued an order prohibiting Missouri’s Planned Parenthood clinics from providing medication abortions, even though the clinics are not yet providing medication abortions.

"Less than a year later, St. Luke’s is the one major institution — other than advocacy groups — standing in the way of restrictions on emergency abortion care in Idaho, a state with one of the most absolute abortion bans in the country."

propublica.org/article/st-luke

ProPublicaThis Hospital System Fought COVID, Then a Far-Right Leader. Now It’s Taking on Idaho’s Abortion Ban.
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A Health System Is Fighting Idaho’s Abortion Ban. It’s Not Its First Controversial Stance.

St. Luke’s, Idaho’s largest health system, was outspoken in defending its staff during a backlash against masks and vaccines. It also sued right-wing figure Ammon Bundy — and won. Now it’s backing its doctors on the abortion front.
propublica.org/article/st-luke

ProPublicaThis Hospital System Fought COVID, Then a Far-Right Leader. Now It’s Taking on Idaho’s Abortion Ban.
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From physical blockades to "sidewalk counseling," anti-#abortion tactics have shifted over decades. The FACE Act aimed to curb violence, but protests continue to impact reproductive healthcare access. A women’s studies professor explains: buff.ly/NCM5TZM
#reproductivehealth

The ConversationThe FACE Act was enacted to protect reproductive health clinics − here’s why its history matters today
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States' rights human rights:

"Legislators in at least four states have introduced bills this year that would change the legal definition of “homicide” to include abortion – proposals that pave the way for states to charge abortion patients with murder."

theguardian.com/world/2025/jan

The Guardian · As Trump returns, state lawmakers pursue bills that would treat abortion as homicideBy Carter Sherman

“64% of Americans oppose a law that would ban access to medication – the use of prescribed pills to end a pregnancy. There was broad partisan consensus on that – 73% of Democrats opposed such a ban, along with 57% of independents and 55% of Republicans” theguardian.com/world/2023/apr

The GuardianMajority of Americans oppose bans of medication abortion drugs, poll findsBy Sam Levine

i've seen some people suggest that we should ban viagra in response to the mife decisions, and just to remind folks: viagra being banned would not make any material difference on .

however, it would stop plenty of people (including disabled and trans/non-binary folks) from being able to have sex or masturbate the way they may want and that is antithetical to supporting bodily autonomy!