Mar 31, 2026
By Kelcie Moseley-Morris
States with and without abortion bans are advancing bills that would shield anti-abortion pregnancy resource centers from certain government mandates and attempts at regulation, allowing them to sue for damages if any part of the law is violated.
At least four states introduced the legislation this session, and two of them, Kansas and Wyoming, made it law. Montana also passed a similar law in 2025. The bills are still pending in Oklahoma and New Hampshire.
Photograph, first published by anti-abortion campaigner Joanna Howe, purportedly taken at Townsville hospital
Tony Shepherd
Mon 9 Feb 2026
Authorities are trying to have the image removed from social media, while the Townsville Hospital and Health Service (THHS) is investigating how it was taken and shared.
Anti-abortion activist Joanna Howe first published the photo.
She claims that after a woman at Townsville hospital had an abortion, a “whistleblower” took the photo in a room for grieving parents at the hospital and leaked it to her.
As abortion clinics disappear nationwide, “crisis pregnancy centers” are transforming reproductive healthcare into a far-right fantasy—quietly collecting hundreds of millions in public funds as Medicaid faces historic cuts.
Sonia Chajet Wides
February 3, 2026
LAWRENCEVILLE, Ga. — A small crowd of abortion rights advocates gathered at a public comment session of the Gwinnett County Department of Planning and Development in July 2025. The most diverse and second-most populous county in Georgia, Gwinnett County distributed millions of dollars in U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development grants to local nonprofits in 2025, with most recipients receiving something in the tens of thousands.
One organization, Georgia Wellness Group, was set to receive a much bigger prize: $450,000.
Continued: https://inthesetimes.com/article/fake-clinics-crisis-pregnancy-abortion-reproductive-healthcare
The three day waiting period for abortions has no medical basis, but it remains in Irish law as a way to slow women down, second guess their decisions, and keep the idea of abortion as regret firmly in place, writes Roe McDermott.
by Roe McDermott
19th Jan 2026
Ireland likes to tell itself that the abortion debate is over, that Repeal shut down moral panic and state control over women’s bodies, and that whatever is left is just bureaucratic tidying up. The mandatory three day waiting period blows that story apart. It is not a neutral safeguard or a quiet moment for medical reflection. It is a moral speed bump, deliberately placed to remind women that certainty is suspicious, that abortion should feel heavy, and that even in supposedly post Repeal Ireland, reproductive autonomy still comes with strings attached.
This waiting period has never been about medicine. It has always been about mistrust. It rests on the belief that women cannot be relied upon to know their own minds, that they need to be slowed down in case they change them, and that the law should gently but firmly steer them away from abortion if given the chance.
Continued: https://www.image.ie/self/ireland-still-doesnt-trust-women-to-be-sure-about-abortion-979834
December 17, 2025
Carly Thomsen
The latest Supreme Court case related to abortion is not technically about the legal right to have one. When the court heard oral arguments on Dec. 2, 2025, the word “abortion” came up only three times. The first instance was more than an hour into the 82-minute hearing.
Instead, First Choice Women’s Resource Centers Inc. v. Platkin hinges on whether First Amendment rights to freedom of speech and association give a chain of five crisis pregnancy centers in New Jersey the right to protect its donor records from disclosure to state authorities. The centers are Christian nonprofits that try to stop pregnant women from obtaining abortions.
New Jersey’s broad subpoena against an anti-abortion chain has made for some strange bedfellows.
Nina Martin, Mother Jones
Dec 1, 2025
Even if you have no idea what a crisis pregnancy center is, the donor website for the First Choice Women’s Resource Centers chain in northeastern New Jersey offers plenty of clues: Prominent logos for the anti-abortion groups Heartbeat International and CareNet. A home page banner proclaiming “Sanctity of Human Life Sunday 2026.” An agreement for prospective volunteers that states, “I openly acknowledge my personal faith in Jesus Christ as my Lord and Savior,” and “[I] reject abortion as an acceptable option for any woman.”
How Ethiopians are resisting U.S.-backed disinformation on abortions.
By Maya Misikir, a reporter and editor based in Ethiopia.
November 13, 2025
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia—It’s the faces of the women and girls receiving treatment for botched abortions that still haunt nurse Hanna, 47 years into her nursing career.
“They had a look in their eyes. It was a plea to be saved from their misery,” she said in Amharic, during an interview last month.
Continued: https://archive.is/RQ7rE
(https://foreignpolicy.com/2025/11/13/ethiopia-abortion-fight-propaganda-america-trump-pro-life/)
A new study being used to call for mifepristone restrictions relies on vague and dubious definitions of drug-related complications.
Elizabeth Nolan Brown
May 5, 2025
The abortion pill mifepristone "is not safe and effective," argue the authors of a new study that uses insurance claim data to examine adverse reactions to the pill. They claim to have found a "serious adverse event" rate of 10.93 percent, and they say this finding justifies renewed restrictions on mifepristone.
Sen. Josh Hawley (R–Mo.) seems to agree. The day the Ethics & Public Policy Center (EPPC) released its new mifepristone study, Hawley wrote to Food and Drug Administration (FDA) chief Marty Makary, urging the commissioner to "follow this new data and take all appropriate action to restore critical safeguards on the use of mifepristone."
Continued: https://reason.com/2025/05/05/the-bad-data-backing-josh-hawleys-attack-on-abortion-pills/
By Ross Pomeroy
May 2, 2025
A new report from the Ethics & Public Policy Center, a religious conservative think tank, is being hailed amongst right-wingers as “the statistical equivalent of a category 5 hurricane hitting the prevailing narrative of the abortion industry.”
According to the report, the rate of serious adverse events amongst women who used mifepristone to medically induce an abortion is not 0.5 percent, but rather 11 percent. Mifepristone, which blocks the hormone progesterone (needed for a pregnancy to continue), is commonly used with the ulcer prevention drug misoprostol to safely and effectively end pregnancies at fewer than ten weeks gestation.
Some on the right are using the report to cudgel FDA Commissioner Martin Makary to restrict or even ban the use of mifepristone. Makary last week said he has “no plans to take action” to restrict the availability of mifepristone. He did, however, leave the door open to take action if the data changed.
Continued: https://www.splinter.com/the-bogus-category-5-hurricane-hitting-the-abortion-pill
Post-Dobbs, the GOP has given them millions in taxpayer dollars.
Laura C. Morel, Mother Jones
April 10, 2025
Last month, during an Indiana state legislative hearing, Republican Sen. Jeff Raatz from Richmond, a small city in the eastern part of the state, discussed a resolution he filed declaring that the state’s General Assembly “strongly supports pregnancy care centers in their unique, positive contributions to the individual lives of women, men, and babies—both born and unborn,” the Indiana Capital Chronicle reported. “We have hospitals in rural Indiana that have no OB-GYNs,” Raatz said during the session. “Why not have an innocent individual stand alongside someone and help them make decisions and connect them with resources?” Abortion is banned in Indiana with limited exceptions.
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