Doug Johnson, chairman of the Kansas Equal Rights Amendment Committee, asked Senate President Ty Masterson, the Republican gubernatorial nominee, to lead the effort to bring the Senate and House together before Dec. 31 to vote on an amendment that could then be placed before Kansas voters. Two-thirds of both chambers would need to endorse an amendment for it to be placed on statewide ballots in Kansas.
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Dr. Kylie Cooper, a maternal-fetal medicine physician, practices in Minnesota after she left Idaho in the spring of 2023, shortly after Idaho’s criminal abortion ban went into effect. Although it has been nearly three years since she left, Cooper retained her Idaho medical license, she said. “I have a sliver of hope that maybe things […]
“I was 25 when I started. I can’t believe I still have to fight for women’s reproductive rights at 75,” Marlene Hammerman told me. Marlene notarized hundreds of signature sheets as a volunteer for the 2024 citizen-led ballot initiative that overturned Missouri’s criminal abortion ban. She’s one of the many women I met when I […]
The campaign opposing a November ballot measure that would reinstate Missouri’s abortion ban has raised more than $6.5 million — including a recent $1.25 million donation from former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg. Stop the Ban, formed last year to oppose Amendment 3 on November’s ballot, reported the Bloomberg donation Wednesday to the Missouri […]
In the midst of navigating a turbulent divorce last year, Claire learned she was pregnant. “It wasn’t the right time for me to have a child,” said Claire, who lives in Kansas City and agreed to speak on the condition that she be identified by her first name, citing concerns for her privacy and the […]
Anti-abortion activist Paul Vaughn was convicted in 2024 on a felony charge of conspiring to prevent access to a Mt. Juliet reproductive clinic, then pardoned the following year by President Donald Trump just days after he retook office for a second term. Earlier this week, attorneys with the Thomas More Society, who represent Vaughn, announced […]
Three women who spoke publicly about seeking abortions amid fatal fetal diagnoses while living in Idaho are among a group demanding an anti-abortion website retract its “defamatory” statements made about them. Attorneys from an abortion-rights legal group called Amplify Legal sent a letter on July 15 to the anti-abortion advocacy website Live Action for posts […]
MISSOULA, Mont. — A Montana court has ordered the state to pay more than $1.3 million in attorneys' fees after plaintiffs prevailed in their challenge to the state's ban on gender-affirming care for transgender minors.
At the Montana Abortion Access Program, we close gaps in abortion access so everyone can receive the abortion care they want, need and deserve. June 24 marked the fourth anniversary of the Dobbs decision, which overturned Roe v. Wade and the federal right to abortion. Since then, 13 states have passed total abortion bans, with an additional six banning abortion within the first trimester. We're grateful for the Montana Constitution's right to privacy, which continues to protect abortion, but we know firsthand that legal standing does not mean access. Since 2022, we've seen a surging need. Abortion is legal here, but how do people reach one of six clinics and afford care that ranges from $300 to $2,300, plus childcare, gas, lodging, and lost wages?
