abortion

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Some hospitals in states with bans have provided similar prewritten language their physicians can use to remove ambiguity about why an abortion falls under an emergency exception.

From Salon • May 27, 2026

A friend reached out to Molly Duane, at the time a senior attorney at the Center for Reproductive Rights, who was representing dozens of women denied medical care under abortion bans.

From Salon • May 27, 2026

Giribala Singh has denied the allegations – she says that it was Twisha who insisted on the abortion saying that she did not want children.

From BBC • May 21, 2026

Plan C estimates that 100,000 or more people a year—nearly 10 percent of reported abortion patients—already get their abortion medication through channels that bypass the U.S. regulatory system.

From Slate • May 18, 2026

We have as much distaste for talking about personal death as for thinking about it; it is an indelicacy, like talking in mixed company about venereal disease or abortion in the old days.

From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas