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People rally for broad access to the abortion pill outside the U.S. Supreme Court as justices hear oral arguments on March 26, 2024, in the case of Food and Drug Administration v. Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine. (Mostafa Bassim / Anadolu via Getty Images)

By Carrie N. Baker | A new report revealed the number of abortions in the first three months of 2024 was significantly higher than abortions in the first three months of 2023 and 2022. 

Before telehealth abortion became available, patients had to travel hundreds of miles to brick-and-mortar clinics, walk a gauntlet of protesters and pay on average $560 for medication abortion. Now they can obtain abortion pills by telehealth from the privacy of their own homes and have them mailed directly to all 50 states with prompt delivery.

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The Care Net Pregnancy Center in Edgewood, N.M., on Feb. 21, 2024. (Valerie Macon / AFP via Getty Images)

By Jenifer McKenna | This summer, the antiabortion movement is mounting an offensive against bipartisan bills to establish federal data privacy protections for Americans and long-overdue online protections for children.

While many unregulated pregnancy clinics, or crisis pregnancy centers, claim HIPAA compliance, they operate under no legal requirement to protect client confidentiality. Thus, they are free to share sensitive information they are collecting from pregnant people as they wish.

“No one should have to worry about their personal health information falling into the hands of anyone who might seek to use that information against them.”

Texas law allows doctors to terminate ectopic pregnancies, a condition in which the fertilized egg implants in the fallopian tubes, instead of the uterus. Ectopic pregnancies are always non-viable and can quickly become life-threatening if left untreated. Despite these protections, these women say they were turned away from two separate hospitals that refused to treat them. The complaint alleges that the doctors and hospitals are so fearful of the state’s abortion laws, which carry penalties of up to life in prison when violated, that they are hesitating to perform even protected abortions.

“Texas officials have put doctors in an impossible situation. It is clear that these exceptions are a farce, and that these laws are putting countless lives in jeopardy.”

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By Karla J. Strand | Each month, we provide Ms. readers with a list of new books being published by writers from historically excluded groups.

Here’s this month’s list of 16 releases we’re excited about! Our August Reads include stories of radical resistance, struggles of belonging, and more.

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