Monica Kelly

6/24/2024
by CARRIE N. BAKER, Ms. Magazine

A decision from the U.S. Supreme Court will be coming any day now in two cases, Idaho v. United States and Moyle v. United States, about whether states can prohibit doctors from treating women with life-threatening pregnancies until a patient’s condition deteriorates to the point where they are about to die.

The National Women’s Law Center (NWLC) filed an amicus brief in these cases describing several of the more than 70 documented cases of women almost dying—and at least one who did die—when they were denied emergency medical care because of abortion bans enacted across the country after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in June 2022. And “the true number of cases is likely significantly higher,” according the NWLC brief.

Continued: https://msmagazine.com/2024/06/24/emtala-supreme-court-women-die-abortion-bans-pregnant/

Number of pregnant people harmed by U.S. state abortion bans continues to grow.

Center for Reproductive Rights
Jan 8, 2024

As the number of pregnant people harmed by state abortion bans continues to grow, four more women have joined the Center for Reproductive Rights lawsuit against Tennessee after being denied medically necessary abortion care for their severe and dangerous pregnancy complications. With today’s filing, there are now nine plaintiffs in the case, Blackmon v. State of Tennessee.

The plaintiffs added today faced pregnancy complications including devastating fetal diagnoses and life-threatening sepsis infections. Because of Tennessee’s total abortion ban, they were forced to travel hundreds of miles out of state to receive the care they needed, rather than wait until they were near death to receive abortion care in their home state.

Continued: https://reproductiverights.org/blackmon-v-tennessee-abortion-ban-more-plaintiffs/

Will SCOTUS Allow Pregnant Women to Die?

More Women Denied Abortion Care Join Center’s Case Against Tennessee