The state Senate voted 34-33 to go a measure guaranteeing some reproductive well being care rights on Saturday. Meanwhile, a small Ohio metropolis has agreed to rewrite its strict abortion ban after strain from advocacy teams and social employees. Abortion ban exceptions are additionally within the information.
Minnesota Public Radio:
Minnesota Senate Votes To Guarantee Abortion Rights, Sends Bill To Governor
A measure guaranteeing the fitting to an abortion — and different reproductive well being care — is on its method to the governor’s desk for a signature after the Minnesota Senate voted 34-33 to go it on early Saturday morning. (Ferguson, 1/28)
AP:
Ohio City Rewrites Abortion Ban, Advocacy Groups End Lawsuit
Groups advocating for skilled social employees and abortion rights stated they’ve succeeded in forcing a small Ohio metropolis to considerably slim its ban on conducting or recommending abortions and so have ended their authorized problem. The lawsuit by the National Association of Social Workers and the Abortion Fund of Ohio argued that the regulation, handed in May 2021, represented an “extraordinarily broad” infringement on the constitutional rights of due course of and free speech. The teams’ legal professionals on the ACLU of Ohio and Democracy Forward additional alleged the ban violated Ohio’s home-rule provisions. The metropolis of Lebanon, in southwest Ohio, opted to revise the regulation fairly than defend it in courtroom. Enforcement had been positioned on maintain whereas that work happened. (Smyth, 1/27)
Stateline:
GOP Leaders In Some States Want To Add Abortion Ban Exceptions
With Tennessee’s so-called set off regulation already on the books, the state enacted its abortion ban nearly instantly after the U.S. Supreme Court struck down Roe v. Wade in June. Yet whilst anti-abortion legislators and advocates celebrated, they thought-about how a lot additional they may go — maybe by barring Tennesseans from searching for abortions in different states, or by proscribing contraception. (Elliot, 1/27)
Stat:
‘A Classic Case’: A Legal Expert On Why Lawsuits Challenging Abortion Pill Restrictions May Succeed
A pair of lawsuits was filed final week difficult restrictions on entry to abortion capsules in two states, a improvement that opens a brand new entrance within the extremely politicized battle over the medication. (Silverman, 1/30)
KHN:
Part I: The State Of The Abortion Debate 50 Years After ‘Roe’
The abortion debate has modified dramatically within the seven months because the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade and its nationwide proper to abortion. Nearly half the states have banned or restricted the process, despite the fact that the general public, on the poll field, continues to indicate help for abortion rights. (1/26)
KHN:
Part II: The State Of The Abortion Debate 50 Years After ‘Roe’
The abortion debate has modified dramatically within the seven months because the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade and its nationwide proper to abortion. Nearly half the states have banned or restricted the process, despite the fact that the general public, on the poll field, continues to indicate help for abortion rights. (1/27)
On being pregnant and parenthood —
The Boston Globe:
It’s Hard To Be A New Mom. For Some, A Lonely Struggle Can Spiral Into Mental Illness
When Melissa Anne DuBois gave start to her first little one 10 years in the past, she was thrilled to lastly take a child into her arms after three miscarriages. But quickly disturbing ideas invaded her thoughts, as a father or mother’s strange fears morphed into nightmare visions. A fear about unintentionally drowning the child within the bathtub turned a imaginative and prescient of holding him below the water and watching him die. The regular concern of dropping the child became a vivid picture of herself hurling her son down the steps to his demise. (Freyer and Lazar, 1/28)
North Carolina Health News:
Two Laws Provide Greater Accommodations For Pregnant And Nursing Workers
Within months of returning to work after giving start in July, Paula Harwick stated she felt her breast milk provide begin to dry up. Harwick stated that was as a result of she had no time to pump all through her day as a highschool Spanish trainer in Durham. (Crumpler, 1/30)
KHN:
A Baby Spent 36 Days In An In-Network NICU. Why Did The Hospital Next Door Send A Bill?
Brenna Kearney was seven months pregnant in December 2019 when she skilled what she thought have been dangerous flu signs. Her husband, Casey Trumble, drove her from their Chicago house to her OB-GYN’s workplace at Northwestern Medicine Prentice Women’s Hospital downtown. With all of the sudden elevated blood strain and protein in her urine, she was recognized with preeclampsia, a doubtlessly deadly however treatable being pregnant complication. Doctors admitted her to the hospital, saying she may anticipate to remain as much as six weeks and have an induced supply. (Meyer, 1/30)
AP:
Baby Girl Found Abandoned In Florida An Hour After Birth
Florida authorities discovered a new child woman wrapped in a blanket and nonetheless hooked up to a placenta on a hill exterior a trailer park early Saturday morning. Polk County deputies responding to a name a few child crying exterior close to Mulberry, east of Tampa, discovered the woman about an hour after she was born, the sheriff’s workplace stated in a information launch. The temperature was within the low 50s (about 11 levels Celsius). (1/29)
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