AP reports: Wyoming Gov. Mark Gordon signed a bill Friday night prohibiting abortion pills in the state and also allowed a separate measure restricting abortion to become law without his signature. The pills are already banned in 13 states with blanket bans on all forms of abortion, and 15 states already have limited access to…
Category: Healthcare
Death Penalty For Abortions Is On The Table In South Carolina
Lydia O’Connor reports: A South Carolina lawmaker is defending a bill he authored that could result in the death penalty for people who have abortions, even as onetime co-sponsors of the legislation back away from it. The proposal from Republican state Rep. Rob Harris seeks to amend South Carolina’s criminal code so that all references to a “person”…
Three Texas women sued for allegedly helping friend seek abortion
Earlier this week, PogoWasRight linked to a story about women suing Texas after being denied life-saving emergency abortions. Today, you can read about a man in Texas who has sued three women who helped his ex-wife seek an abortion. The erosion of women’s autonomy and healthcare rights under the current Supreme Court and some state…
Patient claims and medical secrecy within the EU
Christian Di Mauro, Charles-Henri Caron, Margaux Renard, Valerie Datzer, and Elisa Rossi of Hogan Lovells write: In many health care contexts, the European Union (EU) provides a unified framework for standardization across Member States. However, this is not universally true. In the context of medical records, for example, the existing fragmented approach can have important ramifications for…