Illinois – A religious hospital denied her a life-saving drug during an ectopic pregnancy. She lost her fertility

Harmonie Perrone, 28, is suing Advocate Good Shepherd in Illinois, where reproductive rights are enshrined in law

Melody Schreiber
Mon 8 Jun 2026

Harmonie Perrone, 28, knew she was probably having an ectopic pregnancy, and she knew exactly what she needed to do: seek medical care immediately, before life-threatening complications set in.

But she was denied that care twice as she feared for her life – and, after the delay in care, she lost her fertility, she says in a new lawsuit filed Monday. All of this happened in Illinois, a top destination for abortion care, where reproductive rights are enshrined in law and medical providers are required to offer emergency care regardless of religious beliefs.

Continued: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jun/08/illinois-hospital-ectopic-pregnancy

Would Aborting Pregnancy After Down Syndrome Diagnosis Spark Outrage In East Asia?

Dr Alexis Heng Boon Chin
8 June 2026

Jesse Ridgway and his wife’s decision to abort their pregnancy after prenatal testing confirmed the foetus had Trisomy 21 triggered massive outrage in the US. But in East Asia, bringing a severely disabled child into the world may be seen as irresponsible.

The New Jersey-based content creator, known to his eight million subscribers as McJuggerNuggets, posted a heartfelt statement on Instagram Wednesday revealing that he and his wife Ashley had terminated their pregnancy after prenatal testing confirmed the fetus had Trisomy 21 — better known as Down syndrome.

Continued: https://codeblue.galencentre.org/2026/06/would-aborting-pregnancy-after-down-syndrome-diagnosis-spark-outrage-in-east-asia-dr-alexis-heng-boon-chin/

08.06.2026

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Latin American Feminists Train U.S.-Based Doulas on New Mifepristone Protocol for Second-Trimester Abortions

U.S. abortion doulas are turning to decades of Latin American feminist expertise to make second-trimester medication abortions safer, less painful and more accessible

June 5, 2026
by Carrie N. Baker

Across the world, women living in countries that ban licensed clinicians from performing abortions have always found ways to access abortion outside of the medical system. Today, abortion pills have made it much safer.

When the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade and many states banned abortion, U.S.-based activists turned to Latin American feminists who have run collectives supporting women seeking abortions outside of the medical system for decades.

With their guidance, U.S.-based activists have created their own feminist collectives that now serve thousands of women and girls each month in 38 states that ban and restrict abortion access, including the entire Southeast and much of the Midwest of the country. These collectives provide free abortion pills and the doula support to see them through.

Continued: https://msmagazine.com/2026/06/05/two-mifepristone-home-self-managed-abortion-pills-later-late-term-second-trimester-pregnancy/

Geneva Consensus Declaration: Institutionalizing Attacks on Women and LGBTQ+ Rights

May 28, 2026

Trump’s former Special Representative for Global Women’s Health and a long-time anti-abortion activist, Valerie Huber, argued recently in an opinion piece in The Hill that an international anti-abortion agreement she spearheaded is one of the “most underused diplomatic assets in America’s current foreign policy toolkit.”

Huber, now CEO of The Institute for Women’s Health, served during the first Trump administration, where she was instrumental in the creation of the October 2022 Geneva Consensus Declaration (GCD). Signed by 41 countries, the GCD is a nonbinding international agreement with the stated goal of promoting better “health for women, the preservation of human life, strengthening of the family as the foundational unit of society, and protecting every nation’s national sovereignty in global politics.”

Continued: https://globalextremism.org/post/geneva-consensus-declaration/

She Faced a Life-Threatening Miscarriage. Under Arkansas’ Abortion Ban, Even Calls to the Governor’s Office Didn’t Help.

by Kavitha Surana
May 26, 2026

On the morning of Sept. 16, 2024, Emily Waldorf’s preschooler found her curled on the bathroom floor. Waldorf had felt a strange pressure during a shower, like a balloon bulging into her vagina, and was now bleeding. “I can be your pillow, mommy,” her daughter said, nuzzling into her neck.

Waldorf was 17 weeks pregnant. She and her husband, Justin, dropped their daughter off at her grandparents’ and rushed to Washington Regional Hospital in Fayetteville, Arkansas, where Waldorf worked as an acute care physical therapist.

Continued: https://www.propublica.org/article/arkansas-abortion-ban-miscarriage-care

Abortion pills “just in case”? Planned Parenthood will offer them in two states

May 21, 2026
Selena Simmons-Duffin

When abortion restrictions are in the news, as they have been for several weeks, research shows that many Americans take that as a signal to stock up on abortion medications even if they're not pregnant.

Now, for the first time, a Planned Parenthood affiliate is offering what's called the "advance provision" of abortion medication. The initiative, shared exclusively with NPR, launched Thursday and is called "Just In Case Abortion Pills." It means people can have the abortion pills mifepristone and misoprostol on their shelf to be used in the future if they want to end an early pregnancy.

Continued: https://www.npr.org/2026/05/21/nx-s1-5827444/abortion-pills-mifepristone-misoprostol-planned-parenthood-advance-provision

Beyond American Exceptionalism: What the Success of the Green Wave Can Teach U.S. Abortion Activists

As abortion rights erode across the United States, feminist organizers are looking to Argentina’s Green Wave and other global movements for lessons in solidarity, strategy and mass mobilization.

5/21/2026
by Clare Daniel and Martha Silva

The United States has long positioned itself as an enlightened exporter of democratic governance, moral correctness and technical expertise. The notion of American exceptionalism—in which the U.S. is thought to possess a distinct character born of its revolutionary history, frontier spirit and democratic structure—dates back to the 1800s and has informed approaches to international development and global governance throughout the 20th century to today.

While the idea of the U.S. as a bastion of moral superiority has always been a myth—evident, for example, in efforts to shield Jim Crow laws from scrutiny in the founding of the United Nations—the overturning of Roe v. Wade is one of the latest reminders of this fallacy, particularly as it pertains to global health and women’s rights. It is also a cautionary tale for the rest of the world about the fragility of reproductive rights.

Continued: https://msmagazine.com/2026/05/21/america-abortion-latin-america-green-wave-activism/

Republicans Are Trying to Kill the Abortion Pill. They Don’t Stand a Chance

They can bring all the lawsuits they want, but abortion providers have them beat.

By Christina Cauterucci
May 18, 2026

In 2022, the Supreme Court overturned the right to legal abortion. Since then, one counterintuitive trend has emerged: Even as 19 states have enacted total or near-total abortion bans, the number of abortions provided in the U.S. each year has risen.

The reason is a confluence of advances in medical, logistical, and communication technology. During the first trimester, a pregnancy can be terminated with a series of pills. Those pills can be sent through the mail, and doctors can easily prescribe them on a video call, over the phone, or through digital forms. The expansion of telehealth services during the COVID-19 pandemic offered a way for clinicians to get abortion medication to patients in every state once Roe v. Wade fell, even in places that outlawed abortion.

Continued; https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2026/05/pill-supreme-court-republican-abortion-ruling-legal-mifepristone.html

USA – Abortion bans are restricting miscarriage care, new study finds

The research is the first national analysis to quantify how abortion restrictions affect people losing their pregnancies.

Shefali Luthra
May 18, 2026

Across the country, abortion bans appear to have made it harder for people experiencing miscarriages to receive appropriate treatment — or even receive treatment at all — a new study suggests.

The study is the first national look at the connection between abortion bans and miscarriage care.
“Pregnancy care is a continuum,” said Dr. Maria Rodriguez, an OBGYN and professor at Oregon Health and Science University, and the study’s lead author. “If you restrict access for one type of care, it’s going to affect all of them.”

Continued: https://19thnews.org/2026/05/abortion-bans-miscarriage-care-research/

18.05.2026

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Trump’s abortion ‘gag rule’ has Canadian aid sector asking Ottawa to show leadership

By The Canadian Press
May 17, 2026

OTTAWA — Canadian aid groups are deliberating how to respond to American policies that block U.S. aid for virtually any group in developing countries that provides abortion, science-based sexual health information or LGBTQ+ advocacy.

The rollback of feminist aid has those groups calling on Prime Minister Mark Carney to assemble a coalition of like-minded nations to defend sexual health programming.

“People are more likely to die because they’re not receiving this kind of assistance,” said Erin Kiley, director of international programs at Oxfam Canada.

Continued: https://www.ctvnews.ca/politics/article/trumps-abortion-gag-rule-has-canadian-aid-sector-asking-ottawa-to-show-leadership/