Half of U.S. trans teens live in a state that restricts their rights: study

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.advocate.com/news/half-transgender-teens-restrictive-laws

New York Attorney General Letitia James said she will intervene in a legal fight over Texas’ ban on abortion pills, escalating a national showdown between states.

https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/news/health-science/abortion/2025/09/08/530292/ny-attorney-general-will-intervene-in-texas-abortion-pill-access-lawsuit/

#Abortion #Court #HealthScience #Healthcare #National #News #Politics #Texas #AttorneyGeneralKenPaxton #ChallengingTexasAbortionLaws #LetitiaJames #ShieldLaws #TexasAbortionBan #TexasAbortionLawsuit

#SCOTUS could also further impede #abortion #access for those living in one of the >15 states w/a strict #AbortionBan in place. A few telemedicine clinics have started allowing US-based doctors to prescribe & mail pills into restricted states, relying on new “#ShieldLaws” passed in several blue states to protect them from prosecution. The largest of these clinics, Aid Access, now mails ~6k doses of #MedicationAbortion into antiabortion states every month, acc/to founder Rebecca Gomperts.

#law

EFF helps #IndyBay fight off a a #warrant. It bears noting that SFPD had promised not harass the press with source warrants after undergoing severe criticism over warrants issued to Bryan Carmody. #Journalism #ShieldLaws https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/03/victory-eff-helps-resist-unlawful-warrant-and-gag-order-issued-independent-news

EFF helps #IndyBay fight off a a #warrant. It bears noting that SFPD had promised not harass the press with source warrants after undergoing severe criticism over warrants issued to Bryan Carmody. #Journalism #ShieldLaws https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/03/victory-eff-helps-resist-unlawful-warrant-and-gag-order-issued-independent-news

People will always find a way to make the decisions about our own bodies that we know are right.

Group using ‘shield laws’ to provide abortion care in states that ban it
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jul/23/shield-laws-provide-abortion-care-aid-access?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

#abortionRights #abortionAccess #shieldLaws

A year since Dobbs, these are the ways many states are protecting abortion
https://www.npr.org/2023/06/23/1183646356/dobbs-roe-abortion-protections-illinois-maryland-michigan-colorado-minnesota

In the year since the U.S. Supreme Court reversed Roe v. Wade 14 states have banned most abortions, but more have moved to protect abortion rights in various ways.

11 states have passed so-called "shield laws," which can safeguard providers and patients against prosecution from other states. ...

#abortion #SCOTUS #SCOTUSgate #LeonardLeo #ChristianRight #Dobbs #ShieldLaws #Roe #GretchenWhitmer