It’s taking longer to get an abortion in the US. Doctors fear riskier, more complex procedures

BY LAURA UNGAR
December 9, 2023

A woman whose fetus was unlikely to survive called more than a dozen abortion clinics before finding one that would take her, only to be put on weekslong waiting lists. A teen waited seven weeks for an abortion because it took her mother that long to get her an appointment. Others seeking the procedure faced waits because they struggled to travel hundreds of miles for care.

Such obstacles have grown more common since Roe v. Wade was overturned in June 2022, doctors and researchers say, causing delays that can lead to abortions that are more complex, costly and in some cases riskier — especially as pregnancies get further along.

Continued: https://apnews.com/article/abortion-care-wait-times-us-roe-dobbs-7b0a328bb34b0acb3d37e359a63712fc

Idaho physicians must have greater discretion over when abortion exceptions are warranted

I’m speaking out so women who will need to make a difficult decision will have the right to make it, writes guest columnist Jillaine St.Michel.

Jillaine St.Michel
SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

I have always considered myself pro-choice on the issue of abortion for all circumstances, but I never had to think about what that really meant until my husband and I were faced with that choice for me and our family last November.

Up until that point, it was a theoretical right, and one I so mistakenly took for granted — the right to bodily autonomy, the right to make health care and personal family decisions without government intrusion. I no longer take these human rights for granted.

Continued: https://idahocapitalsun.com/2023/09/19/idaho-physicians-must-have-greater-discretion-over-when-abortion-exceptions-are-warranted/

19.09.2023

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I didn’t want an abortion. I needed one. Idaho made it degrading. I’m fighting back

Jillaine St. Michel, The Idaho Statesman
Sept 16, 2023

Continued: https://www.union-bulletin.com/opinion/opinion_columns/commentary-i-didn-t-want-an-abortion-i-needed-one-idaho-made-it-degrading-i/article_a52eca08-5316-11ee-8706-ff18de340d31.html

16.09.2023

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When a fetal scan showed problems, she fled Idaho for an abortion – now she’s suing

Jillaine St.Michel is one of four women suing Idaho over the state’s abortion ban, pushing to allow doctors to perform abortions in cases like hers

Carter Sherman
Wed 13 Sep 2023

When Jillaine St.Michel’s chatty ultrasound technician suddenly got quiet, St.Michel didn’t initially think too much of it.

The 37-year-old Idaho mother’s second pregnancy had been smooth. She had been feeling so great that she hadn’t felt the need to bring her husband along to her 20-week scan in late November of last year, a few weeks after they publicly announced the pregnancy.

Continued: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/sep/13/idaho-extreme-abortion-ban-medical-emergency

13.09.2023

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Women, doctors announce legal action against abortion bans in 3 states

The women allege they were denied abortions despite dangerous complications.

By Nadine El-Bawab
September 12, 2023

Women in Idaho, Oklahoma and Tennessee filed legal actions against their states over abortion bans, saying they were denied abortions despite having dangerous pregnancy complications.

Four women in Idaho -- Jennifer Adkins, Jillaine St.Michel, Kayla Smith and Rebecca Vincen-Brown -- and abortion providers filed a suit against the state, Gov. Brad Little, attorney general and the state's board of medicine, claiming the state's ban has "sown confusion, fear and chaos among the medical community, resulting in grave harms to pregnant patients whose health and safety hang in the balance across the state," according to a copy of the lawsuit shared with ABC News.

Continued: https://abcnews.go.com/US/women-doctors-announce-legal-action-abortion-bans-3/story?id=103055654