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We’re excited to bring you U.S. Repro Watch, your go-to source for the latest updates on reproductive health and rights in the U.S. This week, eight new plaintiffs were added to our lawsuit, Zurawski v. State of Texas, a Montana District Court judge blocks several unconstitutional abortion restrictions, and states across the U.S. continue to push forth bans on abortion.
Repro News This Week: May 26
Eight new plaintiffs have joined a Center for Reproductive Rights lawsuit [[link removed]] seeking to clarify the scope of Texas’s “medical emergency” exception under its extreme abortion laws.
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The Center originally filed the lawsuit, Zurawski v. State of Texas, in March on behalf of five women denied abortion care and two doctors who were unable to provide the care their patients needed. Now, more women who were denied abortion care despite facing dangerous pregnancy complications have come forward to tell their stories, bringing the total number of plaintiffs to 15. Read the new plaintiffs’ stories here. [[link removed]]
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The Center’s amended complaint in the case, filed May 22, requests that the court grant a temporary injunction to Texas’s abortion bans as they apply to pregnancy complications while the case proceeds. Read all about the case here. [[link removed]]
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There were several developments on abortion in Montana alone.
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A Montana judge blocked several abortion restrictions, including three measures that would have effectively eliminated abortion access for Medicaid patients in the state. During a hearing May 23, the Center and partners argued that the Medicaid restrictions violate the state constitution.
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Abortion bans passed or are moving quickly in multiple states.
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The South Carolina Senate passed a six-week abortion ban May 23. The bill was signed into law yesterday morning and was immediately challenged by the Center and its partners. The lawsuit argues that the ban is unconstitutional under the South Carolina constitution, violating its guarantees to privacy, equal protection and due process.
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In Nebraska, lawmakers are debating a bill restricting abortions after 12 weeks of pregnancy and access to gender-affirming care for young people.

Did You Know?
An alarming new report illustrates how abortion bans have tied the hands of doctors, severely threatening the health and lives of patients. Through 50 testimonials, the report, Care Post-Roe: Documenting cases of poor-quality care since the Dobbs decision , [[link removed]] details several instances of patients being sent home after their water broke far too early and told to return when labor started or symptoms of an infection emerged. Other patients were forced to travel long distances to get an abortion while suffering dangerous medical conditions. Patients also faced delays in accessing care unrelated to abortion—in one case, a doctor refused to remove an intrauterine device (IUD) from a pregnant patient because of the potential risks of miscarriage.
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“These physician accounts of mass chaos and confusion over exactly when doctors can be jailed just for providing their patients the standard-of-care treatment are consistent with what we are hearing. It is why we are suing Texas in Zurawski v. Texas to try to obtain some desperately needed relief in the face of an ongoing health crisis.”
– Marc Hearron, Senior Counsel at the Center for Reproductive Rights

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