USA – What to Know About Later Abortions: Myths, Barriers and Patient Stories

As abortion bans spread and delays mount, women seeking care later in pregnancy face growing barriers and persistent misconceptions about why they need it.

7/7/2026
by Carrie N. Baker

Later abortion is one of the most stigmatized and least understood aspects of reproductive health—yet some of the voices perpetuating that stigma come from inside the reproductive rights movement itself.

Meanwhile, while most abortions happen in the first trimester, later abortions are increasing as restrictions and bans are delaying care and creating the very conditions that make them necessary. To address these misconceptions, Erika Christensen and Garin Marschall created Patient Forward after Christensen experienced a later abortion in 2016. The organization is dedicated to eliminating later abortion stigma and barriers.

Continued: https://msmagazine.com/2026/07/07/later-abortion-myths-late-term-facts-patient-stories-birth-weeks-gestation/

07.07.2026

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Dr. Diana Foster Greene

USA – More Than Half of American Men Believe Abortion Should Be Legal. They Need to Speak Up.

Men for Choice is a nonprofit that’s mobilizing men to protect reproductive freedom

By Fiorella Valdesolo
Apr 21, 2026

“I hope it’s okay to say that I’m affected by an abortion ban too,” Garin Marschall, a father from New York, said into the mic from the stage of the second-annual convening of Abortion in America, the nonprofit organization founded by the late Cecile Richards, Lauren Peterson, and Kaitlyn Joshua. Marschall’s wife Erika’s first pregnancy ended in a miscarriage and D&C (dilation and curettage) at 10 weeks; her second was mired with complications, culminating with them learning, at 30 weeks, that the pregnancy was no longer viable. It was 2016, they were living in Brooklyn, with a doctor on the Upper West Side, and yet they were told that no one in New York, a deep-blue state, would be able to perform the late-term abortion they needed and they would have to fly to Colorado.

Continued: https://www.harpersbazaar.com/culture/politics/a71086121/men-for-abortion-rights/

21.04.2026

Restore Roe, or Go Beyond It? The Question Is Fracturing the Abortion Rights Movement

“We have an opportunity here to build something better, and we’re not even talking about it.”

MADISON PAULY
SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Not long after Election Day last November, Pamela Merritt joined a call with other abortion-rights activists in Missouri to discuss a daring proposal: sidestepping the state’s ruling Republicans by directly asking voters whether to add abortion rights to their state constitution. The group hoped to capitalize on a recent trend. Since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in June of 2022, pro-choice voters had been showing up to the polls in force, rejecting anti-abortion ballot initiatives in Kansas, Kentucky, and Montana. They went even further in California, Michigan, and Vermont, passing state constitutional amendments to guarantee, among other things, the right to choose abortion.

This unbroken string of victories has energized advocates who see ballot initiatives as a key tool in the post-Roe world, especially in states controlled by Republicans. Even in Missouri, where the anti-abortion movement was so successful that only one clinic remained by 2022, national progressive organizations smell opportunity. “Right now, every single state is dealing with a pro-abortion, riled-up base that wants a Kansas,” Merritt says, referring to the special election about abortion last year that drew greater turnout than any primary in the state’s history. “There’s pressure.

Continued: https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2023/09/roe-v-wade-abortion-rights-amendment-missouri-pro-choice-ohio-arizona-planned-parenthood-viability-limits/

11.09.2023

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Arizona for Abortion Access

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How Abortion Law in New York Will Change, and How It Won’t

How Abortion Law in New York Will Change, and How It Won’t
The Reproductive Health Act will remove barriers for women seeking to get abortions in New York. But some wish it could have gone further.

By Jia Tolentino
January 19, 2019

In the late spring of 2016, Erika Christensen was thirty-one weeks pregnant, and found out that the baby she was carrying would be unable to survive outside the womb. Her doctor told her that he was “incompatible with life.” Christensen and her husband wanted a child desperately—they called him Spartacus, because of how hard he seemed to be fighting—but she decided, immediately, to terminate the pregnancy: if the child was born, he would suffer, and would not live long; she wanted to minimize his suffering to whatever extent she could.

Christensen lived in New York, a state where, since 2014, an estimated twenty-five to twenty-seven per cent of pregnancies end in abortion.

Continued: https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/how-abortion-law-in-new-york-will-change-and-how-it-wont