Tag: reproductive rights

The list of proposed and pending laws destroying women’s reproductive rights and body autonomy gets longer as Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt signed into law a state-wide ban on abortion on Tuesday.

There has been a recent spread of anti-abortion legislation across the United States showing Republicans interest in controlling women’s bodies, bolstered by a conservative supreme court majority poised to overturn Roe v. Wade, the case that legalized abortion 50 years ago.

Colombia’s Constitutional Court has recently made the decision to allow women to have abortions up to 24 weeks into pregnancy without justification, adding to the growing list of Latin American countries that have decriminalized abortion.

Gov. Gavin Newsom signed two bills into law – both aimed to protect women’s reproductive health and rights – in a virtual ceremony Sept. 22.

Red states are passing bills prohibiting abortion with more extreme provisions than ever before and at an extremely alarming and dangerous rate.

The California Senate is considering a bill that would require health centers at public universities to provide RU-486, the abortion pill.