‘How sick is sick enough?’ Abortion bans leave providers, patients questioning when care is OK

Saturday, September 2, 2023
By Elise Catrion Gregg | News21

AUSTIN, Texas — Amanda and Josh Zurawski sit in the house they bought last year, the dream home they intended to share with their future daughter.

They’ve told their story too many times now, but they brace themselves to tell it once more — from a room just above the backyard where they will one day plant a tree in memory of the baby who never made it home.
It will be a willow, in honor of the name they chose for their little girl.

Continued: https://nondoc.com/2023/09/02/how-sick-is-sick-enough-abortion-bans-leave-providers-patients-questioning-when-care-is-ok/


The future of medication abortion in the US is uncertain. These women say they’re glad they got sterilized

By Elizabeth Cohen and Carma Hassan, CNN
Wed May 17, 2023

In January, as a 28th birthday present to herself, Mariah Marsh got herself sterilized. Five months later, she says she’s very glad she did.

On Wednesday, a panel of federal judges in New Orleans will consider whether a drug used in medication abortions should be taken off the market. More than half of all abortions in the US use the drug, called mifepristone, in combination with another pill called misoprostol.

Continued: https://www.cnn.com/2023/05/17/health/sterilization-abortion-rights/index.html


Once a ‘quintessential pro-life Texan,’ she had to flee her home state to get an abortion

By Elizabeth Cohen and Danielle Herman, CNN
September 9, 2022

Nine years ago, Cade DeSpain messaged a friend about a cute girl he saw on her Facebook feed.

The friend introduced him to Kailee Lingo, her sorority sister at Tarleton State University in Stephenville, Texas. Kailee remembers that when she and Cade met, it was "a connection at first sight."

Continued: https://www.cnn.com/2022/09/09/health/abortion-restrictions-texas/index.html