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85% of AAPI women want the right to make their own reproductive choices, reports the National Asian-Pacific American Women’s Forum

New research predicts the problem will only worsen, resulting in three-quarters of women under bans giving birth

Pregnant woman attended by physicians. Image credit - Wikimedia Commons. When the U.S. Supreme Court decided Roe vs. Wade in 1973, I was a junior at university. I reread the decision after retirement in 2009, along with dissenting opinions and some of the briefs. I know exactly one thing about House File 732 passed in…

Frontiers in Psychology retracted a paper by Priscilla K. Coleman. The British Journal of Psychiatry declined to retract another, after which editorial board members resigned. It’s a fight over abortion research in the post-Roe era. June 2022 saw the U.S. Supreme Court end the federal constitutional right to abortion, beginning a new era of litigation over whether individual states would preserve that right.

A new peer-reviewed study written by scholars from the Charlotte Lozier Institute (CLI) and American Association of Pro-Life Obstetricians and Gynecologists (AAPLOG) suggests that women whose first pregnancy ends in abortion have worse mental health outcomes than those whose first pregnancy ends in birth.

The hotline told Jezebel how abortion bans are now in the "toolbox of abusive partners."

After Roe v. Wade fell, the National Domestic Violence Hotline saw a 99-percent increase in callers reporting that people were trying to control their reproductive choices.

When women with a history of abortion were asked if abortion was consistent with their values or preferences, 70% said it was not.

It's already harder to get an abortion in many places and access is likely to be limited more with the passage of new laws.

From the moment the Supreme Court decision overturning the right to an abortion was leaked last spring, researchers and pundits began to predict the…