What is a "reasonable medical judgement" that a patient would be harmed before an abortion is permissible?

A recent Texas Supreme Court decision with implications for post-Dobbs jurisprudence on abortion seems to have been a victory for those who oppose the practice. It was widely read as upholding Texas’s very strict anti-abortion legislation. I suggest another possible reading of that decision.

Despite the medical necessity of the abortion, it was delayed and rescheduled twice that day because individual anesthesiologists, technicians, and nurses did not want to be involved in, what several called, “this kind of procedure.”

Many clinicians have followed their conscience to find ways to provide good care within the confines of abortion bans. Henry Morgentaler was a model.

On a cloudy April afternoon, in my home in western Pennsylvania, a headline catches my eye: A federal judge in Texas suspended FDA approval of mifepristone. This abortion-inducing drug has been on the market for more than 20 years. Although the decision is presented with a secular and legal façade, like other recent antiabortion court rulings and legislation, a solid religious motive is at play.

In the nearly three months since the United States Supreme Court’s Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization decision eliminated the constitutional right to an abortion, doctors have reported increased in...

What constitutes a medical emergency for a pregnant patient? ER clinicians in states with abortion bans need to know.

Health care and society will strive to find ways to undercut crude bans inconsistent with perceived medical need and professional duty.

The reversal of Roe may be the beginning of an onslaught on our freedoms. I want to add one more worry to the list and point to self-determination at life's end. Here we have Justice Neil Gorsuch to worry about.

The end of federal abortion rights is a disability justice issue—but not in the way you might think.