Abortion Any Time Isn't Just a Rallying Cry -- It's True Reproductive Freedom

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

64% : Yet national groups like Planned Parenthood and NARAL celebrated the win as absolute.
53% : Although the 1973 ruling included some restrictions (allowing states to regulate abortion after "viability," when they would have an "important and legitimate interest in protecting the potentiality of human life"), and though the 1992 Planned Parenthood v. Casey decision threw out the trimester framework used to consider viability in Roe (allowing states to regulate abortion earlier as medical technology advanced), the Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization ruling overturned those decisions and expanded the state's "interest" in protecting potential life to include the entire pregnancy.
52% : His experience caring for a close relative with complex medical needs helped them decide abortion was the right choice for their family.
49% : A year after the fall of Roe, affordable, meaningful access to abortion throughout pregnancy remains an indispensable goal of reproductive justice for all.
49% : "I realized, 'Wow, there's so many, many patients that have come in here with my story,'" she said.4Having to travel out of state for abortion care is becoming ever more common since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade last summer, ending the national right to abortion.
49% : It allows state lawmakers "to regulate abortion after fetal viability, but not prohibit [it] if medically needed to protect a patient's life or physical or mental health."
49% : A year after the fall of Roe, affordable, meaningful access to abortion throughout pregnancy remains an indispensable goal of reproductive justice for all.31
48% : Despite serving as part of the social safety net, they generally cannot take private insurance or Medicaid and rely on an overloaded, baroque referral and funding model that pushes patients, providers, and funders to the brink.19One day stands out to Morgan Nuzzo, a certified nurse-midwife and co-owner of the Maryland-based Partners in Abortion Care clinic.
45% : No one on the care team presented abortion as an option -- and because it wasn't brought up, she didn't ask about it.
45% : Michigan, New York, Connecticut, Illinois, Washington, and Massachusetts have all passed abortion protection bills in recent years; all, however, contain a ban on abortion after viability.8Erika Christensen, codirector of Patient Forward, the only advocacy group dedicated to later abortion care, explained that national reproductive rights groups routinely stress the rarity of later abortion in their messaging, and then often publicly support abortion legislation with a viability ban.
42% : Katrina Kimport, a professor at the University of California, San Francisco, and one of the few researchers on abortion after 24 weeks, divides later abortion seekers into two groups: those who wanted care earlier and could not get it because of factors like bans or an inability to travel, and those who discovered new information about the pregnancy.
39% : Abortion restrictions even in pro-choice states, as well as broken funding structures, the conservatism of hospitals, and general confusion about what, in fact, constitutes a "later abortion" and how many there are, combine to hamstring access to abortion care throughout a pregnancy.
39% : For decades, the oft-repeated line about abortion after 24 weeks has been that it is vanishingly rare, representing fewer than 1 percent of total abortions per year.
38% : They discovered that official counts of post-24-week care were distorted by the stigma associated with abortion.
37% : Abortion is legal up to 24 weeks in New York State, after which it is banned, with some exceptions.

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