15-week abortion ban. “It’s a state issue, but as the child develops, it can feel pain,” he argued. “States, do it the way you want to do it,” Graham told CNN. “But there comes...
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Data analyzed by CNN shows mifepristone — the first drug in the medication abortion process — is even safer than some common, low-risk prescription drugs, including penicillin and Viagra.
Nearly two dozen US states have banned or severely restricted access to abortion. View CNN’s abortion law map to see where abortions are legal, banned, or in limbo.
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“We’ll be making a statement next week on abortion,” the former president told reporters in Grand Rapids, Michigan. The offhand remark put his team on the clock to weigh in on one of the most delicate and contentious issues in American politics. It came as news to some within his campaign, which only hours earlier released a statement on the Florida law, voicing vague support for “preserving life” and states’ rights. Since launching his third bid for the White House, Trump has struggled to reckon with the political fallout from the ...
A college student in New York with the dream of working in public health, Schurr’s life came to a grinding halt when she discovered she became pregnant as a result of the assault in 2014. ; “My pregnancy couldn’t have been more unplanned or unwanted – it resulted from an encounter that I didn’t want to have and asked to stop,” Schurr told CNN. ; Abortion felt like her only option. But Schurr, raised in a conservative Catholic household, was terrified of what that meant. ; “I was afraid to rely on just Planned Parenthood’s information – because I had been told my whole life how biased they were, and how they only provided abortion services for profit,” Schurr said, referring to the falsehoods pushed against the nonprofit sexual and reproductive health care provider that offers abortion services.
In just a few days, Missouri could become the first state in the country with zero abortion clinics. But several other states are just one closure away from that fate. Six states are now down to one abortion clinic – Kentucky, Mississippi, Missouri, North Dakota, South Dakota and West Virginia, according to the Guttmacher Institute, which advocates for reproductive rights. In most other states, the number of abortion clinics keeps dropping. As states across the country add more restrictions on...
Diana DeGette, a Colorado Democrat who’s the co-leader of the House Pro-Choice Caucus, told CNN’s Jake Tapper that abortion could define the midterm elections. “The voters of America...