State Rep. Phelps Anderson, DTS-Roswell, speaks to attendees at a Nov. 2019 meeting of the Chaves County Federated Republican Women. Anderson on Friday voted with 39 House Democrats for Senate Bill 10 (SB 10), which repeals a dormant 1969 law that criminalizes most abortions in New Mexico. All other local legislators voted against the measure. (Daily Record File Photo)
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Legislation to repeal a 52-year-old dormant law that criminalizes most abortions has passed the New Mexico House of Representatives in a 40-30 vote, garnering the support of state Rep. Phelps Anderson, DTS-Roswell, but the opposition of all other Chaves County lawmakers.
Following hours of debate marked by heightened emotions, Senate Bill 10 (SB 10) cleared the House of Representatives Friday. All House Republicans, including local Reps. Candy Ezzell and Greg Nibert of Roswell, and House Minority Leader Jim Townsend of Artesia, voted with six Democrats against passage. The Sena
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Two political newcomers will face off for the chance to represent an Edmond-area state Senate seat.
Republican Jake Merrick, of Yukon, and Democrat Molly Ooten, of Edmond, easily won their respective primary elections Tuesday for a chance to represent Senate District 22, the seat formerly held by U.S. Rep. Stephanie Bice.
The district that includes parts of northern Oklahoma County, eastern Canadian County, Edmond and Yukon and leans heavily Republican.
Merrick, 39, and Ooten, 31, will face off in a special general election on April 6.
Merrick, a licensed minister and personal trainer, defeated Edmond Republican Keri Shipley, 48, despite her cash advantage.
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The Los Altos/Mountain View branch of the American Association of University Women hosted a Zoom seminar Jan. 22 to mark the 48th anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court’s Roe v. Wade ruling, which ensured women’s right to choose whether to maintain a pregnancy.
Laurie Bertram Roberts, founder and executive director of the Yellowhammer Fund, explained to the more than 50 attendees how the abortion fund and reproductive justice organization has evolved.
From a beginning providing funds for abortions to low-income women in Alabama, the organization now offers a variety of support services to low-income women, including child care, adoption services, contraceptive supplies, diapers and financial assistance. During the pandemic, the fund also has supplied bleach and sanitizers.
Claims medication abortions can be reversed stem from a small case study reported by San Diego-based Dr. George Delgado.
He testified he has helped patients stop a medication abortion after they have taken the first of two pills required for the procedure by prescribing high levels of progesterone in an attempt to flush out the system.
Delgado, a self-professed pro-life physician, has continued to prescribe progesterone in those circumstances, he testified. He has published case studies, not formal studies with control groups, on the practice, for the last decade.
In 2017, the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists published a statement saying that claims regarding abortion reversal treatment are not based on science and do not meet clinical standards.
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