There are 30 article(s) tagged Roe v. Wade:

• June 2024

  • Supreme Court preserves access to widely used abortion medication

    The Supreme Court on Thursday unanimously preserved access to a medication that was used in nearly two-thirds of all abortions in the U.S. last year.

    By The Associated Press June 13, 2024

• March 2024

  • Choices leader joins Amnesty International abortion panel

    Jennifer Pepper, CEO of Memphis-based Choices, will discuss reproductive and sexual rights in the Americas during a webinar that will be simultaneously interpreted into English, Spanish and Portuguese. 

    By Aisling Mäki March 05, 2024

• January 2024

  • Planned Parenthood opens Illinois clinic offering abortion services

    Easily accessible for out-of-state patients, Planned Parenthood’s Carbondale health center is just four miles from the clinic Memphis-based Choices Center for Reproductive Care opened shortly after Tennessee banned abortion.

    By Aisling Mäki January 09, 2024

• June 2023

  • Choices has made Carbondale a destination city

    A year after Roe v. Wade was overturned, ending abortion access in the Mid-South, a Choices clinic in Illinois is performing 350 procedures per month. By October, leaders expect the number will be 600.

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    Strong-willed leader holds firm on abortion’s eroding turf

    By Jane Roberts June 26, 2023

  • Planned Parenthood, Choices warn of ‘scary time’ near Dobbs anniversary

    “One year ago, Tennessee faced an instant health emergency for pregnant people when we became a forced birth state,” said Ashley Coffield, CEO of Planned Parenthood of Tennessee and North Mississippi.

    By Aisling Mäki June 22, 2023

• May 2023

  • After Dobbs, Choices continues growth in Memphis, Carbondale

    Choices has opened a new walk-in clinic at its existing Poplar Avenue location, where services include birth control, pregnancy confirmation and STI testing.

    By Aisling Mäki May 06, 2023

• December 2022

  • Opinion: Some conservative women support abortion rights

    Conservative Kristina Garner writes about her support of limited government, individual freedoms, the right to bear arms, a strong military, and the importance of state and local rights. But on abortion, she writes that decades of discrimination against women lead her and many other conservatives to disagree with the Republican Party’s position.

    By Kristina Garner December 02, 2022

• November 2022

  • Opinion: Abortion should get you to the polls (and if I was a man, maybe you’d listen)

    “Girls and women in Tennessee need their fathers and husbands and brothers and sons to step up and vote to end the government’s regulation of women’s bodies.”

    By Sarah Hunter Simanson November 03, 2022

• September 2022

  • Reproductive rights advocate walking across state to protest abortion ban

    Outside Planned Parenthood’s Memphis Health Center, supporters joined Francie Hunt on the first leg of her 538-mile trek across Tennessee to protest the state’s abortion ban. 

    By Aisling Mäki September 27, 2022

• August 2022

  • Tennessee’s abortion ban takes effect Thursday

    Criminal defense lawyers say there are effectively no exceptions to the Human Life Protection Act of 2019.

    By Ian Round August 24, 2022

  • Tennessee’s abortion ban expected to increase pregnancy-related deaths

    “If you think abortion access going away does not affect you, you’re going to be mistaken, because this falls out into all areas of medicine,” said a Tennessee OB-GYN.

    By Aisling Mäki August 15, 2022

• July 2022

  • State’s near-total abortion ban to take effect next month

    The Supreme Court issued its judgment in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization Tuesday, initiating the 30-day countdown on Tennessee’s abortion ban.

    By Ian Round July 27, 2022

  • Letter to the Editor: A young white man’s response to the old white men about Old White Men

    “Take a look at abortion policies around the world, and you will see an almost inverse relationship to white population and restrictions on abortion.”

    By Letters to the Editor July 23, 2022

  • Biden executive order unlikely to expand Tennessee’s limited abortion access

    “The executive order ... protects contraception and providers who are going to be needing to do their jobs to save the women that we’re going to see an influx of,” said one local OB-GYN. “I think that’s a good start.”

    By Shera Avi-Yonah, Aisling Mäki July 08, 2022

  • Facing pressure, Biden to sign order on abortion access

    The White House said Biden will speak Friday morning “on protecting access to reproductive health care services.”

    By The Associated Press July 08, 2022

  • Opinion: Dobbs decision not only about abortion but about women’s rights more broadly

    “I find it easy to understand why women see the overturning of Roe v. Wade as rolling back a broad range of rights for women that goes well beyond the matter of abortion.”

    By G. Scott Morris July 02, 2022

• June 2022

  • Several major Memphis employers commit to cover abortion travel

    Some major employers are offering benefits to help employees access abortion services across state lines while others are determining whether they’ll need to make adjustments to their employees’ health care plans.

    By Aisling Mäki June 30, 2022

  • Opinion: Access to birth control is more important than ever

    Executive director of A Step Ahead Foundation: Because an unplanned pregnancy creates challenges to personal stability and growth, free access “to birth control is now more important than ever.”

    By Nikki Gibbs June 29, 2022

  • Opinion: A local law professor on why she supports the overturning of Roe v Wade

    Guest column: “For anyone seeking the truth about the abortion decision, I encourage you to push through the noise and ignore the political rhetoric.”

    By Lynda Wray Black June 29, 2022

  • Planned Parenthood suspends abortion services in Tennessee

    “This decision was not made lightly,” said Ashley Cofield, CEO of Planned Parenthood of Tennessee and North Mississippi. “And it’s due to Tennessee’s legal landscape, which is extremely hostile to abortion access.” 

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    By Aisling Mäki June 28, 2022

  • ‘Fetal heartbeat’ law can go into effect immediately

    Tennessee Attorney General Herbert Slatery wrote to the Sixth Circuit almost immediately after the high court’s decision on Friday, asking it to stay a district court’s injunction immediately and allow the law to take effect.

    By Ian Round June 28, 2022

  • The closest state to Memphis with abortion access? Illinois.

    Between state abortion bans taking effect and the opening of a Choices clinic in Carbondale, Illinois, the closest facilities are in the Illinois suburbs of St. Louis.

    By Ian Round June 25, 2022

  • Tennesseans react to Supreme Court decision on abortion

    Responses to the U.S. Supreme Court ruling Friday, June 24, overturning the nearly 50-year old Roe v. Wade decision fall along party lines in Memphis and across Tennessee.

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    Near-total abortion ban takes effect in 30 days, but a ‘heartbeat bill’ could come sooner

    The closest state to Memphis with abortion access? Illinois.

    By Bill Dries, Ian Round, Aisling Mäki June 25, 2022

  • Letter to the Editor: Choice, baby formula, health and guns

    “Where is my right to safety and personal choice?”

    By Letters to the Editor June 01, 2022

• May 2022

  • Mississippi governor clarifies stance on contraceptives

    “We’re not interested in making it harder to get contraceptives,” Gov. Tate Reeves said Monday after a previous, national news story was headlined that the governor “doesn’t rule out banning contraception if Roe falls.” 

    By Toni Lepeska May 18, 2022