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The anti-abortion rights reactionary foes were dealt a setback in Mississippi as a judge blocked a law from taking effect that would close the state’s only abortion clinic. U.S. District Judge Daniel P. Jordan in Jackson issued a temporary restraining order the day the new law took effect. He set a July 11 hearing to [...]

I haven’t posted about the efforts by the right-wing reactionaries to relegate women’s health care back into second class citizenship in a while. It’s important to keep these issues in the spotlight, so I felt it’s high time we round up the latest news on GOP’s nationwide effort to nibble away at the constitutional right for women [...]

Georgia Gov. Nathan Deal has signed a bill limiting the number of weeks women in the Peach State can seek an abortion. Of course, the measure has been touted as the state’s commitment to protecting life in its most minute forms: Deal’s signature makes Georgia the latest state to generally ban abortion after 20 weeks [...]

A bill considered by a Tennessee State House committee would require the publication of data on abortions, according to the Tennessean. Doctors who perform abortions could see their names listed in the data base and women who receive an abortion could have their identities ”unintentionally” revealed. State lawmakers are debating a measure that would require the Department [...]

Looks like my home state of Georgia has hopped onto the bandwagon of slowly eating away at a woman’s right to an abortion. The Georgia House of Representatives on Wednesday passed a bill that would cut six weeks off the time a woman has to get an abortion in the state. The legislation, House Bill [...]