Today, Paola's mother had to testify on behalf of her daughter, who can no longer speak for herself because of the heinous crimes committed against her. No mother should have to go through this. We are fighting so that they won't have to. #JusticiaPorPaola
@ReproRightsLAC@CepamGuayaquil We are asking the @CorteIDH to award direct reparations to Paola’s mother, Doña Petita. Further, we are demanding standards for States to recognize the epidemic of sexual violence in schools, the power disparities in relations between girls and adults with serious age gaps...
... and requiring Ecuador to implement structural change that will protect girls from predatory authority figures. In her mother’s own words, “we will ask the Court to bring justice to Paola and restore her name and dignity”. #JusticiaPorPaola
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WATCH: Our courageous client Lauren Miller testified today before the Senate Judiciary Committee about her terrifying experience being denied emergency abortion care under Texas's extreme ban.
Lauren, a plaintiff in our major Zurawski v. Texas abortion rights case, needed abortion care to save her own life, and the life of her viable twin.
Even though her doctors were ready and willing to provide the lifesaving care Lauren needed, Texas's laws instead forced her to flee the state at one of the most vulnerable moments of her life.
Dr. Dennard, an OBGYN and a plaintiff in our Zurawski v TX case, got emotional when she heard the verdict from the Texas Supreme Court. Texas ruled against Dr. Dennard and 20+ other plaintiffs who sued the state after being denied abortions amid dire pregnancy complications.
Dr. Dennard understands the harsh reality of living under Texas’ criminal abortion ban better than anyone. Last summer, she had to flee the state when her own pregnancy was diagnosed with anencephaly, a lethal genetic condition where the brain and skull don’t completely form.
On top of that, Dr. Dennard also has to think of her patients. Because of the extreme criminal penalties written into the state’s cruel ban, she has to think critically about what she can and cannot say to patients experiencing severe pregnancy complications.
LET DOCTORS PRACTICE MEDICINE. That's the common sense request being made in an urgent new letter to the US Supreme Court signed by 6,000 doctors from all 50 states.
🧵Here's what you need to know.
The letter was published as SCOTUS considers a MAJOR abortion case with the potential to utterly unravel the standards of emergency medical care—not just abortion care—across the country.
The Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act (EMTALA) says all hospitals receiving Medicare funds must provide emergency stabilizing care to patients who arrive to the ER crashing. For patients in a pregnancy emergency, abortion care is often the treatment needed.
⚠️With the abortion pill case going before the US Supreme Court today, here are some important reminders about mifepristone, the medication in question.
Mifepristone is extremely safe. In addition to a 20+ year track record of use in the US, the medication’s safety is documented in more than 100 peer-reviewed articles.
Leading medical and scientific organizations recognize mifepristone as safe and effective including the American Medical Association and the American Congress of Obstetricians & Gynecologists (ACOG). It is also classified as an essential medicine by the World Health Organization.
NEWS OUT OF TEXAS: Today, the Texas Medical Board announced that they are publishing proposed rules to purportedly ‘clarify’ exceptions to the state’s harsh abortion bans. However, these rules fall seriously short of the clarity needed.
“The rules Texas Medical Board proposed today contain more of the same rhetoric we have been hearing for years: that physicians should just read the language of the exception and exercise their reasonable medical judgment.” -Molly Duane, @ReproRights Senior Staff Attorney
Further, these rules create a burdensome documentation system physicians must use when providing an abortion, including documenting whether there was ‘adequate time to transfer the patient’ ‘by any means available’ to a different facility to avoid having to perform an abortion.
🔴LIVE: The @SenateBudget Committee is hosting a hearing on the devastating economic impacts of abortion bans. The committee will hear from @ReproRights' Tennessee plaintiff Allie Phillips and other experts. Tune in now and follow our live coverage: budget.senate.gov/hearings/no-ri…
@SenateBudget "Reproductive rights, it turns out, are intrinsically tied to economic opportunity. Reproductive justice is economic justice. Restricting one restricts the other." -@SenWhitehouse
“[The] freedom to decide if and when to have a child affects a women’s life trajectory and her family’s financial security. Women denied an abortion who had to carry a pregnancy to term were 4x more likely to live in poverty." -@SenWhitehouse