RELIGIOUS WOMEN HAVE ABORTIONS TOO, AND MANY FAITHS AFFIRM ABORTION RIGHTS.

The imminent threat to Roe v. Wade elicited significant concern from many religious communities, and an amicus brief to the Supreme Court signed onto by Muslim, Christian, Jewish, Unitarian, Sikh and other groups reflects a challenge to the dominant narrative that religions are anti-abortion. >

(NBC News)

A REPRODUCTIVE-RIGHTS ACTIVIST EXPLAINS THE REALITIES OF ABORTION FOR LATINA WOMEN

“Given the Supreme Court’s recent decision to allow the Texas abortion ban to stand, I think white feminists are now seeing what Black and brown and Indigenous feminists have been saying from the very beginning: the Court is not going to protect our rights. They’re not going to make abortion access available to us.” >

(The New Yorker)

FBI WARNS ABORTION PROVIDER OF THREAT TO KIDNAP HER DAUGHTER

An anti-abortion group supported by Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett is inviting threats to health providers. The group behind that ad, Right to Life Michiana, publishes a list of abortion providers and where they work on its web site—a move that invites threats and harassment. >

(Jezebel) 

ROE LAWYER SARAH WEDDINGTON HELPED REDEFINE ABORTION RIGHTS

In honor of Sarah Weddington, we share this remembrance of her many accomplishments. Weddington was only 26 years old when she successfully argued Roe v. Wade in front of the U.S. Supreme Court. >

(U.S. News & World Report)

INVESTIGATING THE PRE-NATAL TESTING MARKET

Yael Geller and her son. A prenatal test indicated that her fetus might be missing part of a chromosome, but her son has no signs of the condition.

“In just over a decade, prenatal tests have gone from laboratory experiments to an industry that serves more than a third of the pregnant women in America. The grave predictions of rare genetic disorders made by newer tests, however, are usually wrong.”  >

(The New York Times – read or listen)