RICHMOND — A state law requiring women to receive an ultrasound at least a day before having an abortion has already caused a Northern Virginia health clinic to reduce its non-abortion services in the month since it took effect, according to a clinic official. More…
Last week, Virginia became the latest state to consider mandating ultrasounds for all women who want an abortion. But as more states inject mandatory ultrasound policies into their abortion laws, a group of scientists is attempting to influence the debate with new research showing that ultrasounds, while useful and informative, do More…
While the U.S. House is trying to prevent More… Planned Parenthood from receiving federal dollars, other legislation pending in the House — albeit quietly — would direct taxpayer money to crisis pregnancy centers, which, in recent years, have become anti-abortion rights groups’ low-income alternative to reproductive health clinics.
More…The Texas Senate passed legislation Thursday that would require all doctors in the state to perform an ultrasound before every abortion. The woman would then have the right whether or not to view the ultrasound and listen to the fetal heartbeat.
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