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Washington (AFP) - US President Joe Biden hammered Donald Trump on Tuesday over his role in restricting abortion rights, telling a crowd in Florida that voters will hold his Republican predecessor and opponent personally "accountable" in November. Shortly after Trump departed the New York courtroom where he is on trial, the Democratic president -- whose campaign views the abortion issue as potentially key to winning reelection -- took the stage at a university in Tampa. "Let's be real clear. There's one person responsible for this nightmare. And he's acknowledged it and he brags about it: Dona...
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Washington (AFP) - If the US Supreme Court, which on Tuesday hears a sensitive case on the availability of abortion pills, ultimately decides to restrict their access, it will impinge on the scientific authority of the federal Food and Drug Administration in unprecedented and consequential ways. While the case specifically deals with access to mifepristone -- the first of two pills taken in medication abortions -- a broad ruling could threaten access to a number of other drugs used for a wide variety of conditions, experts tell AFP. The mifepristone pill, first authorized by the FDA in 2000, ...
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Washington (AFP) - Louisiana's strict abortion ban is having spillover effects across women's health care in the US state, leading doctors to turn away patients for routine prenatal visits and perform unnecessary Cesarean sections, according to a report released Tuesday. Conservative Louisiana, in the Deep South, joined a dozen other states in implementing a near-total ban on abortion after the US Supreme Court overturned the federal right to the procedure in 2022. But a joint fact-finding mission conducted from May to November last year by four medical NGOs charges that Louisiana's abortion b...
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Washington (AFP) - The Bidens have invited a Texas woman who was forced to leave the state to have an emergency abortion to attend the State of the Union address, the White House announced on Wednesday. The move comes as the US president is making the defense of reproductive rights a key theme of his reelection campaign. Kate Cox has agreed to attend the annual major policy address, held this year on March 7, that is traditionally given by US presidents to Congress, White House spokeswoman Karine Jean-Pierre told reporters. The story of Cox, a mother of two from Dallas who sued for the right...
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Washington (AFP) - Thousands of anti-abortion demonstrators marched through snowy Washington on Friday, warning Republicans that the sensitive issue of reproductive health will weigh heavily on November's presidential election. "Abortion is murder," chanted several in the group, many of them young adults, as they wound their way up to Capitol Hill past the Supreme Court and US Capitol buildings. Some held up crosses or religious imagery, and urged Americans to "make more babies." The movement that describes itself as "pro-life" scored a historic victory in June 2022 when the conservative-domi...
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Columbus (AFP) - The US state of Ohio voted Tuesday to enshrine abortion rights in its constitution, while the Democratic governor of Kentucky won reelection, in results that boosted President Joe Biden ahead of the 2024 White House race. The "yes" vote victory in Ohio's referendum, known as Issue 1, inserts the right in the Republican-run state's constitution for residents to "make and carry out one's own reproductive decisions," including on abortion. A watch party of "yes" campaigners exploded with joy as the projected results were announced in the midwestern state's capital Columbus, with ...
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Columbus (AFP) - The US state of Ohio will decide whether to guarantee the right to abortion in a potential 2024 bellwether Tuesday as both sides of the American political machine establish their campaign strategies on this crucial issue one year out from the presidential election. Voters will choose whether to amend the midwestern state's constitution to promise the freedom to "make and carry out one's own reproductive decisions, including... abortion," or to leave the document unchanged, allowing for a potential state ban. The US Supreme Court revoked the national right to abortion last yea...
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Washington (AFP) - Donald Trump never misses a chance to remind voters that he was the one to appoint three justices to the US Supreme Court who voted to ditch the federal right to an abortion. But ask the 77-year-old what he thinks personally about abortion, and his position starts to shift, the self-declared "most pro-life president in American history" well aware of what a hardline stance might cost him at the polls. Trump was evasive when asked repeatedly this month about introducing nationwide bans or limits on abortion -- as some of his Republican challengers have proposed. "It could be ...
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Washington (AFP) - A year after the US Supreme Court abolished nationwide access to abortion care, many American women are settling into a new reality: arranging costly trips to terminate their pregnancies in states where the procedure is still allowed. Comprehensive national abortion statistics are hard to come by in the United States because data is split between medical facilities and organizations that provide abortion pills by mail. But a recent study indicates a sharp rise in abortions in states that neighbor those which have moved to ban the procedure following the landmark court decisi...
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Washington (AFP) - For weeks, American nurse Lauren Jacobson has been supervising the daily dispatch of around fifty parcels of abortion pills -- mostly to states where it is illegal to terminate a pregnancy, such as Texas. For the 31-year-old, prescribing the drugs is "an active form of resistance." "People in Texas deserve the same basic human rights and access to health care as people in Connecticut," she told AFP. The effort is coordinated by the activist group Aid Access. Between mid-June and mid-July, it sent abortion pills to 3,500 people living in states where abortions are illegal, pr...
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