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Marlise Munoz, 33, is 18 weeks pregnant and suffered a suspected pulmonary embolism and collapsed on November 26. Her husband, Erick, says his wife is brain dead and wants her removed from a respirator because she had previously stated she wouldn't want to live in such circumstances. However, Texas law favors the preborn child.

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Every six months, the women were asked whether they felt their decision to have an abortion was the right choice. They were also asked about positive and negative emotions, including relief, happiness, regret, guilt, sadness and anger. Women may experience a mix of positive and negative emotions around an abortion, and these emotions may or may not influence whether they feel they made the right choice, the researchers said.

In the raw data, 95 percent of the women reported they'd made the right choice to have an abortion in each of the follow-up surveys. This number isn't entirely accurate, because some women didn't answer every survey, and it doesn't take into account individual variation over time, Rocca said. After statistical adjustment to account for these factors, the researchers found that more than 99 percent of women reported having made the right decision at every follow-up.

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The state, backed by the appeals court, argued that traveling about 150 miles to obtain an abortion is not an undue burden. Women in west Texas who would not have a clinic even that close could travel into New Mexico, the court said.

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The law in question requires doctors who provide abortions to have admitting privileges at a hospital within 30 miles of where they carry out the procedure.
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A panel of the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals in Chicago in a 2-1 ruling concluded Monday the medical benefit to the requirement was “nonexistent” and “cannot be taken seriously as a measure to improve women’s health.”
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“What makes no sense is to abridge the constitutional right to an abortion on the basis of spurious contentions regarding women’s health – and the abridgment challenged in this case would actually endanger women’s health,” Judge Richard Posner wrote for the majority.

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“It’s one thing for an agency to provide data upon request. It’s quite another to be listed as a ‘co-author’ on a deeply flawed and highly political report,” Nelson told the Associated Press last week. “I’ve communicated strong concerns to the agency. This should not have happened, and we need to make sure it doesn’t happen again.”

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Rick Allgeyer, director of research at the Texas Health and Human Services Commission, had teamed up with researchers from the University of Texas at Austin’s Population Research Center to look at what happened after Texas booted Planned Parenthood from its state-run Women’s Health Program in 2013.

Their study, which was published in the prestigious New England Journal of Medicine early this month...

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For instance, thanks to strict regulations, the states of Mississippi, Missouri, North Dakota, and South Dakota are down to one abortion clinic each.

“That’s right, Mississippi now has four times as many s’s as abortion clinics,” Oliver said.

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But she found that getting an appointment for an abortion, even in one of the country’s largest metropolitan areas, proved almost as stressful as the unwanted pregnancy. The number of abortion clinics in Texas has shrunk by half since a 2013 state law imposed new regulations that many said they found impossible to meet. When Amy called the two clinics here just after New Year’s, and a third in Dallas, the earliest available appointment was on Jan. 22.
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Another patient at the clinic last week, Amber, 22, said that she had initially been told she would have to wait 19 days for an abortion, and that she was relieved when the clinic was able to see her in 10 days, because of a cancellation.
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Women in the Fort Worth area have more options than many others. Smaller cities, including Beaumont, Lubbock, Waco and Killeen, have been left without a single abortion clinic. But even for women here, and in Houston, San Antonio and Dallas, the law has left some waiting for weeks for abortions
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Candice Russell, a 32-year-old administrative assistant from Irving, was 12 weeks along when she learned she was pregnant in 2014, she said, and she faced a wait of two and a half weeks for an abortion in Dallas or Fort Worth.

Instead, Ms. Russell took out a high-interest payday loan and flew to California, where her partner lived and where she was able to get an abortion in a matter of days.

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Stephanie, a 20-year-old student, said she had recently driven through the night to Albuquerque for an abortion 16 weeks into her pregnancy after she could not come up with the money in time to have the procedure done at a clinic in El Paso, where she lives. Because of the earlier Texas law that requires all abortions after 16 weeks to be done in surgical centers, her options were limited to the closest such center, 550 miles away in San Antonio, or a regular abortion clinic in New Mexico.

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Other patients at the clinic that weekend had driven from Lubbock, about 300 miles away, and Odessa, 320 miles away.

(GORDON @ Mar. 18 2016,15:32)

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A gentleman like.me.leaves them a plan b pill next to the bed when be leaves in the middle of the night.

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The morning after pill is over the counter for anyone over 17 — regardless of gender. Unless, of course, you live in Texas or Mississippi, where pharmacists are refusing to dispense it to men.

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According to the study, 73 percent of the pharmacies that didn’t give emergency contraception to men said they needed to see the woman taking the pill or needed to see her ID card. Twenty-seven percent of them said they didn’t have the pills in stock.

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Supporters of the legislation said it’s needed to ensure state funds go to “more comprehensive providers” of health care services.

“The governor is clearly listening to his friends in the abortion lobby, rather than ensuring that women have access to quality care,” said Del. Ben Cline, the measure’s sponsor.