Reproductive Rights
Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto (Nev.) and nearly three dozen other Democrats are moving to protect interstate travel for abortion care in the wake of Roe's repeal.
“It’s challenging for employers to navigate what is a rapidly evolving legal landscape,” said Sharon Masling, the head of Morgan Lewis’s reproductive rights task force.
This isn’t the first time the Bishop of Rome has compared the medical procedure to employing a professional assassin.
Providers and patients across the country have been struggling to navigate the evolving legal landscape around abortion laws and access.
WHAT'S HAPPENING
There are enough votes on the Supreme Court to uphold new restrictions on Plan B and birth control, experts say.
"If this goes, what else can go? It makes everything feel precarious," said Debbie Walsh, of the Center for American Women and Politics at Rutgers University.
"It has been 16 years, but I can still hear myself begging my mother, my doctor, not to make me do this ― please don’t make me do this."
"I am overjoyed that both of you seem to have carved out lovely lives for yourselves... lives that would’ve been hugely derailed."
More than 30 million girls and women of reproductive age are staring down the barrel of life in a state without safe and legal abortion access.
For decades, the number of abortions performed in the U.S. had been trending downward.