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A Southwest Virginia family is suing the Bristol Women’s Health clinic and Dickenson County Department of Social Services (DSS) for allegedly pressuring their 15-year-old daughter into obtaining an abortion. The plaintiffs allege in the $15million lawsuit that a DSS employee persuaded the teenager to book an appointment for a wanted pregnancy, leading to negative physical […]

On March 9, Colorado Democrats unveiled multiple pro-abortion bills in their state Senate. One of them, SB 190, titled “Deceptive Trade Practice Pregnancy-Related Service”, purports to regulate false advertising among organizations providing pregnancy services. The bill would make it a deceptive trade practice for a person to publicly disseminate information indicating that an organization provides

A study published in Contraception by Vinekar et al. finds that pregnancy resource centers (PRCs) make their pregnancy confirmation services more accessible than abortion clinics do. The study sought to characterize access to early pregnancy confirmation at PRCs compared to abortion facilities nationwide, and to understand the role that state policies on PRCs plays in

On March 15, oral arguments began for the federal case Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine v FDA. The suit was filed in Amarillo, Texas in November 2022 on behalf of several plaintiffs, including AAPLOG, seeking to reverse the FDA’s approval and subsequent expansion of the abortion drugs Mifepristone and Misoprostol. Erik Baptist, Senior Counsel for Alliance Defending