Wade last Wednesday, Planned Parenthood and We Testify premiered a short film aiming to combat the stigma and misconceptions surrounding abortion.
The film’s mission echoes the tagline of We Testify , an organization empowering people to discuss their experiences to end stigma: «Everyone loves someone who had an abortion.» As one in four women will have an abortion by the age of 45, it’s likely we all know someone who has undergone the procedure.
With Ours to Tell, she hopes those who’ve watched the film and have had an abortion, or are considering having one, will think, «Wow, I feel empowered that someone else can be this example, and I feel more comfortable owning my truth.» Even the subjects in the film were moved to open up after hearing about people they know sharing their own abortion experiences.
We worked with We Testify, an organization dedicated to the leadership and representation of people who have had abortions, and Planned Parenthood, the leading provider of reproductive health care in this country, in order to gain access to storytellers who were authentic and ensure that our film shared their stories in an inclusive and non-stigmatizing manner.
The United States has recognized a right to abortion since the Supreme Court ruled in Roe that the Constitution protects people‘s liberty to end a pregnancy, free of overly burdensome government restrictions, as affirmed in the 1992 decision Planned Parenthood v.
Yet, Roe’s protections have since been under siege, from decades of state restrictions, to the discriminatory Hyde Amendment that prevents the use of government funds to cover abortion and leaves many people with low incomes with no recourse.
These restrictions have led to what are deemed abortion deserts — places where the right to access abortion exists in name only, given income constraints, a lack of providers, or onerous state restrictions.
The campaign advocates for access to safe abortions and amendment of the Medical Termination of Pregnancy Act to make it more inclusive when it comes to unmarried women.
Speaking about the law on abortion, she says, «The most recent amendment to the MTP Act was proposed in 2014. However, one needs to have the proper training and proper knowledge to perform safe termination.» What the law says Section 312 of the Indian Penal Code had earlier criminalised abortion, describing it as intentionally causing miscarriage.
The Dominican Republic is one of few countries in Latin America and the Caribbean where abortion is criminalized and prohibited in all circumstances, even for women and girls who become pregnant from rape or incest, whose lives are endangered by pregnancy, or who are carrying pregnancies that are not viable, meaning the fetus will not survive outside the womb, The Human Rights Watch study continued.
In season one, Maeve Wiley decides to get an abortion.
Considering the controversy and stigmatisms surrounding abortions, the topic is rarely portrayed on television.
Mackey told Teen Vogue, «I think the main point with this episode is we didn’t want to sensationalize abortions, and we didn’t want to make it this huge, dramatic difficult decision.» In season two, Aimee Gibbs is sexually assaulted on a bus ride to school.
For over an hour, Ginsburg, the leading liberal on the bench, engaged in a high stakes constitutional version of whack-a-mole , taking down arguments put forward by supporters of a Louisiana abortion access law that requires doctors to have admitting privileges at a nearby hospital. In the case at hand, Louisiana and the Trump administration argue that the challenge should be dismissed, without the justices ever reaching the merits, because the doctors and clinics don’t have the legal right to stand in the place of women seeking abortion and bring the case. After allowing Alito to go on, and mindful that the Court has often allowed doctors to stand in the shoes of women challenging such laws, Ginsburg spoke up again dryly. Ginsburg noted that in most hospitals in Louisiana, in order to get admitting privileges, you have to have admitted a threshold number of patients. What she didn’t say in Court, but what she often says in public appearances, is that restrictive abortion laws are likely to have a disproportionate impact on women without the means to travel longer distances to obtain the procedure.
Washington The Supreme Court appeared divided after over an hour of arguments Wednesday concerning a controversial Louisiana abortion access law that critics say will leave just one doctor in the state to perform the procedure. The case marks the first time President Donald Trump‘s nominees — Neil Gorsuch and Kavanaugh — have heard an abortion-related dispute at the high court. Back in 2016, when Justice Anthony Kennedy was still on the bench, the court struck down a similar law out of Texas in a case referred to as Whole Woman’s Health. Louisiana Solicitor General Elizabeth B. Murrill says that clinics in the state have a long disturbing history of serious health and safety problems, abortion carries known risks for serious complications and that the act would bring abortion practice into conformity with the privilege requirements for doctors performing other outpatient surgeries. As a threshold matter, Murrill argues that the justices shouldn’t even get to the merits of the case because the doctors and the clinics bringing the case don’t have the legal right — or standing — to be in court. Murrill notes that Louisiana women can challenge abortion regulations if they wish to do so — as individual women have done in numerous other abortion cases across the country — but that the clinics and doctors can’t stand in their place.
There are so many things that women don’t speak truths about. We learn that there’s no room for the speaking when we accidentally say something out loud that we haven’t internalized that we’re supposed to keep quiet about, and then we get the side-eye and the embarrassed sighs and the gentle commands to hush about it… often from other women, because women can be the patriarchy’s best enforcers. Sometimes people with uteruses who aren’t women also experience these things, and their experiences are even less heard, and that’s a whole ’nother cluster of taboos that need to die. Dudes, women have endured your onscreen comedy about embarrassing boners and all your other secret private boy things, so you can shut up and sit down and learn how to empathize with women at last. Which is why Saint Frances is so very necessary, to open up the range of women’s experiences seen as baseline and perfectly normal.
With her equally inexperienced cousin Skylar along for support, Autumn takes a bus to New York City to avoid her home state’s strict parental-consent abortion laws. Hittman’s film, which won the Silver Bear Grand Jury Prize at the Berlin Film Festival earlier this year, is a sobering reminder of the importance of sexual autonomy, the right to choose, and what happens when those rights are slowly stripped away. Hittman sat down with ELLE.com to talk about the inspiration for this poignant film, demystifying what happens behind Planned Parenthood‘s walls onscreen, and how Autumn’s plight across state lines will become a reality for many women if Roe v. Wade gets overturned. Angal Field From the way the town is shot to Autumn’s interactions inside Planned Parenthood, the film feels incredibly authentic. I wanted the story to be as credible as possible, so I did a lot of fieldwork and met with doctors, abortion providers, and people from Planned Parenthood. Part of the writing process was about writing things that didn’t work.
And with her new movie, Never Rarely Sometimes Always, she’s dealing with yet another fraught subject, but this time with a decidedly more political slant: access to abortion. When one of them, Autumn, played by newcomer Sidney Flanigan, becomes unintentionally pregnant, she and her cousin Skylar are forced to cross state lines so Autumn can terminate the pregnancy in New York City. I was reading about the death of Savita Halappanavar in Ireland, a woman who passed away after being denied a lifesaving abortion, and the journey that women would take from Ireland [to access abortion in England] — across the Irish Sea to London and back in one day. It was easy to do because of the lack of access in rural areas, and I started reading about New York as being a safe haven for women [seeking abortion]. Have you had any feedback from women who have had abortions, or Planned Parenthood employees?
news, latest-news, The recently reported rise in the number of unplanned pregnancies as a result of COVID-19, highlights an already inadequate support system for women and their families when dealing with unplanned pregnancies. The three options for a woman dealing with an unplanned pregnancy are adoption, abortion and to keep the baby. Assuming the woman decides to terminate her pregnancy, whether through surgical or medical means, a great deal of support, guidance and information should be available to her so she can make the best decision for herself with plenty of education on the process involved and the many feelings she may encounter afterwards. In Queensland, the Children By Choice organisation provides free counselling and financial support for women who experience an unplanned pregnancy. In Canberra, women facing difficulty with their decision can contact the Sexual Health and Family Planning for free, non judgmental counselling and then referral for those seeking an abortion or to adopt.
Six days earlier, she had tried to terminate the pregnancy with abortion pills she ordered online. Currently, ordering pills online is the only way to terminate a pregnancy on the island, and it is a criminal offence. You’re stuck here.» The Abortion Support Network, a charity that helps people travel from Malta, Gibraltar and Poland to access abortions in countries with more liberal laws, saw a dramatic increase in calls to its hotline when borders closed in March.
There are indications that a very small number have been able to leave the island for an abortion during the pandemic, but the overwhelming majority are turning to abortion pills.
Charmaine , who travelled to the UK from Malta to end a pregnancy in 2011, describes her country as «like Ireland on steroids» when it comes to abortion – «in terms of how small we are, how tight-knit we are, how difficult it is to to leave the country».
Democrats hoping to flip the Senate seized on a major Supreme Court ruling on Monday striking down a Louisiana law that would’ve restricted abortion access, attacking Republican candidates in crucial races across the country for supporting conservative justices who dissented in the case.
Gideon touted her endorsements from groups supporting abortion rights like NARAL Pro-Choice America and Planned Parenthood Action and publicly questioned whether Collins still believed that Kavanaugh viewed Roe v.
Wade, the landmark 1973 decision in which the court ruled that the Constitution protects a pregnant woman‘s right to choose to have an abortion, as settled law .
There is nothing funny about the pro-choice v anti-abortion culture war that has been intensifying over the past few years, but comedy is proving to be a powerful weapon in it.
To the extent that the phrase «abortion comedy» is no longer an oxymoron.
It is a long way from the days of Mike Leigh’s underground abortionist Vera Drake, or Kate Winslet’s self-administering 1950s wife in Revolutionary Road.
Saint Frances, review: This groundbreaking film deals with abortion and period sex with a refreshingly light touch There is an invigorating lack of sentimentality to Alex Thompson’s funny, taboo-busting debut feature Dir: Alex Thompson, 101 mins, starring: Kelly O’Sullivan, Ramona Edith Williams «I’m for sure getting rid of it,» 34-year-old Bridget tells her younger boyfriend Jace, when she finds out she is pregnant.
There is an invigorating lack of sentimentality to Alex Thompson’s funny, taboo-busting debut feature.
It is millennial Jace who has «unprocessed feelings» about the abortion, which he records in his journal, while Bridget announces: «It was a pocket of cells and I’m pissed people want me to think it was a kid.» This honest film discusses the topic, along with birth control, interracial marriage and postnatal depression with a refreshingly light touch, and also manages to break new ground in its normalising of menstrual blood, which flows through it right from the start, when Jace and Bridget have period sex, and continues after Bridget’s abortion leaves her haemorrhaging in inconvenient places – including her employers’ white chair.
Just like Mahie, Meghna and Samanvi, my family is from India, and there, menstrual health is often considered a taboo topic.
Of course, India isn’t the only country that stigmatizes menstrual health, and Mahie said it’s important to remember that the taboos surrounding menstruation differ from place to place.
« That rocky road culminated in a soap opera-worthy scandal, which Candice found herself at the sharp end of. Hooper, under another guise, had accused Candice of being aggressive and weaponizing race. »I’ve had so many DMs and emails from older women, who have had proper backstreet abortions.
When Nandar decided to take on the topic of abortion in an episode of her podcast, she reached out to several doctors working at U.N. organizations to be her guests.
We first launched [the abortion episode] in English, and there were a lot of friends from abroad who gave me a lot of positive feedback, but I thought that this was because in their countries, these conversations are already ongoing, so of course they support this.
Not only are they showcasing taboo topics such as racism, inter-racial relationships, abortion and wanting to raise a baby with Down Syndrome, these actors will be subject to something most actors don’t deal with — the direct interventions of the audience members.
DUBLIN — The abortion clinic’s website pops up at the top of a Google search for «free ultrasound,» its content and color scheme mimicking the government’s new support service for unplanned pregnancy.
«Looking for abortion advice?» «How far along am I?» The bright orange speech bubbles attached to stock images of smiling medical experts purport to inform women about abortion options that became legally available in Ireland on Jan.
Its true purpose is to obstruct abortions: Hanging out front, like a graphic warning on a cigarette pack, is a giant poster of a 15-year-old girl who died after receiving an abortion in London.
In May, Ireland voted decisively to cast aside one of the world’s most restrictive abortion bans, approving a new law that guarantees unrestricted abortion up to the 12th week of pregnancy, and longer in situations in which there is a serious risk to the life or health of a woman, or in which there are fatal fetal abnormalities.
CNN: When people speak about abortion later in pregnancy, are they referring to abortion in the third trimester or something else? CNN: How common or uncommon are abortions at this stage of pregnancy? Conti: There are many reasons why women may need to access abortion later in pregnancy, including maternal health endangerment, diagnosis of fetal abnormalities or restrictive laws delaying earlier access to abortion care.
Abortion later in pregnancy is not used as an alternative to delivering healthy women‘s full-term, viable pregnancies.
Conti: The majority of women having abortions are already mothers and are making the decisions they know to be best for their other children and their families.
Brian Kemp, a Republican, supports the bill, and if he signs HB 481, the state would ban abortions after a fetal heartbeat is detected — or as early as six weeks, before many women even know they’re pregnant.
Kemp promised on the campaign trail that he would sign the toughest abortion laws in the country and all signs suggest he will sign HB 481 into law.
Phil Bryant is the latest governor to sign into law a bill that would ban abortions once a fetal heartbeat can be detected.
Phil Bryant is surrounded by lawmakers as he signs a bill that would ban most abortions once a fetal heartbeat can be detected.
A controversial bill that would ban abortions after a fetal heartbeat is detected passed a Georgia House committee on Wednesday.
House Bill 481, called Living Infants Fairness and Equality Act, would prohibit abortions after that point, which would dramatically restrict abortions in Georgia, where women are now allowed to undergo the procedure up to their 20th week of pregnancy.
No abortion is authorized or shall be performed if the unborn child has been determined to have a human heartbeat, the bill states, unless the pregnancy risks the life or poses substantial and irreversible physical harm to the pregnant woman.
What I can tell you about these abortion bans across the country, they’re not to protect the life of the mother nor life of the embryo, said Georgia state Rep.
Washington A federal judge has issued an opinion declaring North Carolina‘s ban on abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy is unconstitutional.
District Judge William Osteen stayed the order striking North Carolina‘s abortion ban for 60 days, however, saying along with his ruling Monday that he was giving the state time to appeal or put new laws in place before the ban is ended.
North Carolina is far from alone in having regulations that limit abortion, and the ruling against its recently modified, but decades-old, ban came as states around the country have sought to impose greater limits on a woman‘s right to abortion.
Wade ruling in 1973, Osteen declared that North Carolina‘s ban on abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy violates the Constitution.
Even in the marie claire office, which is filled with progressive, forward thinking women who proudly call themselves feminists, talking openly about abortion seemed like a sort of NSFW topic that we shouldn’t really broach, especially not amongst colleagues.
And while stigmas around women and their bodies might be lifting, it seems even progressive women struggle with the concept of speaking out about abortions.
So while, no, abortion shouldn’t have to be your go-to dinner conversation topic, it certainly wouldn’t be too hard for us as a society to loosen up a little about the realities of it.
Incheon More than a quarter of a century after the first of her three abortions — illegal in South Korea — Lim is still haunted by her sense of shame. he kept on clicking his tongue and shook his head, Lim told AFP.
Washington Texas lawmakers are considering a bill that would allow a woman who undergoes an abortion procedure to possibly be charged with capital murder — a crime punishable by death in Texas.
Chairman Jeff Leach entertaining this bill and giving it a hearing proves that the anti-abortion‘s relentless and coordinated attempt to shame and criminalize women who have abortions as well as the doctors who perform that care is dangerous and out of touch with the majority of Texas who believe abortion should be safe and legal, Delma Catalina Limones, the communications manager for NARAL Pro-Choice Texas, said in a statement provided to CNN.
Wade, has passed a bill that, if signed into law, would criminalize abortion.
HB 314, which passed the GOP-controlled House on Tuesday in a 74-3 vote, would make abortion a Class A felony, which carries a maximum prison sentence of 99 years, and attempted abortion a Class C felony, which holds a sentence of up to 10 years in prison.
Read more opinion on CNN. President Trump recently said that babies who survive so-called late-term abortions sometimes die afterward as a result of bedside executions.
Washington A federal judge in Washington state on Thursday granted a nationwide preliminary injunction blocking the Trump administration’s abortion clinic referral restriction.
The revised regulations to the Title X family planning program prohibit taxpayer-funded family planning clinics from talking about abortion with patients or referring patients to abortion providers.
According to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel , Evers planned to veto a GOP-backed state bill that could have meant life sentences in prison for doctors who intentionally did not provide medical care to babies born alive after a failed abortion. nonviable pregnancy and severe fetal abnormalities] went into labor but the clarification did not address Northam’s remark that the infant would be delivered.
It’s this exact reason that it’s nonsensical to legislate these cases: Nobody arrives at the decision to have an abortion after 24 weeks carelessly, Conti said.
But in the days after Alabama’s state senate passed a near-total ban on abortion, writers are asking themselves why none of these heroines ever considers termination.
According to the Guttmacher Institute, an organisation promoting sexual and reproductive health and rights, it’s a common experience for women in the US, with nearly one in four having had an abortion by the age of 45.
« The taboo surrounding the subject has helped the anti-abortion movement to »systematically chip away at abortion rights«, Lincoln says. As a normal part of life, not as a moral lesson where women are then punished for their choice.» Play Video 2:08 Alabama: Republican state passes near-total ban on abortion – video report Lincoln’s tweet has been liked more than 2,500 times, and her fellow writers were quick to chime in.
«Right now in the US, women’s bodies are under attack and I would be shocked if we did not see a rise in references to abortion in romance. »Romance has historically been a place where women’s concerns, rebellions and restrictions have been explored,« she says.
The reasons why women get abortions are varied and personal. CNN reached out to women sharing their stories with the hashtag #YouKnowMe . Goldblatt Hyatt and her husband consulted with fetal surgeons, as some babies with this syndrome could undergo surgery after birth. While the majority of women who had abortions in 2012 were unmarried — 85% — the CDC’s reporting shows most women who have an abortion have already had at least one child. — Kristin Mink May 15, 2019 I’m the same person now that I was then, just making different choices bc of different circumstances. She was raised in an abusive household Kait Payne Kait Payne’s parents were 17 and 18 when they had her. #youknowme — Kait May 17, 2019 I knew from a young age that I did not want to live like this forever and I absolutely did not want my kids to grow up like I did, Payne, now 26, said.
In his 25 years of service on the court, he has taken this approach with the First Amendment same-sex marriage , and the right to bear arms JUST WATCHED Gloria Steinem: ‘Our bodies belong to us’ Replay More Videos … MUST WATCH Gloria Steinem: ‘Our bodies belong to us’ 09:54 Justice Thomas’ concurrence, totaling 20 pages, tells a one-sided and out of context story about the history of birth control and reproductive rights in America by primarily — and misleadingly — citing statements by Planned Parenthood founder Margaret Sanger. In his calculation, this state interest is so compelling that it should be allowed to impose an undue burden on a woman in direct contradiction to both the 2016 Whole Woman’s Health v. Hellerstedt decision — which found that some regulations on abortion providers pose an undue burden on women seeking abortions — and 1992’s Planned Parenthood v. Casey decision, which upheld a right to an abortion and established the undue burden standard. Ginsburg makes it clear that any successful challenge will need to give even the conservatives on the court a reason to disregard the constitutional right to access abortion and the undue-burden standard of review found in Roe Casey , and Hellerstedt Stay up to date…
Washington The 86-year-old Supreme Court justice who this year became a three-time cancer survivor will be heard. In addition to her partial dissent in the Indiana abortion dispute, Ginsburg on Tuesday wrote separately — again, alone — to protest a majority decision that she asserted uses a thin case to state a rule that will leave press members and others exercising First Amendment rights with little protection against police suppression of their speech. In the abortion case, as she traded taunts with conservative Justice Clarence Thomas , she also revealed impatience for his many references to the mother who would choose to end a pregnancy. Last year, the 7th US Circuit Court of Appeals struck down both parts of the law, and Indiana state officials had asked the justices to hear the dispute. The majority’s unsigned opinion rejected the state‘s appeal to the second part of the law regarding a woman‘s motivation for an abortion but said the fetal remains requirement could take effect.
‘I had an abortion and I’m not ashamed – we need to talk it more to break the taboo’ Claire Rammelkamp talks about why she’s written a comedy play which draws on her own experience of having a termination when she was 20 »We should live in a society where it’s not shrouded in secrecy and shame« Claire Rammelkamp Abortion isn’t usually a topic that people laugh about. I’d love to have children one day, but I knew I wanted to be able to stand on my own two feet and not add to the strain on an already underfunded benefit system.» Claire used humour in her play – in which the main character, an 18-year-old called Babygirl, has to battle with pro-life arguments due to her strict Catholic upbringing – but she says that isn’t intended to play down the psychological impact going through a termination can bring.
Washington Abortion rights advocates filed a lawsuit Friday challenging that Georgia’s controversial ban on abortion is unconstitutional.
The groups are representing abortion care provider SisterSong Women of Color Reproductive Justice Collective and several of its member providers.
481 will prevent Georgians from exercising their fundamental constitutional right to decide whether to have an abortion prior to viability and will threaten other critical medical care for pregnant women, causing irreparable harm, the organizations write.
Australian comedy The Letdown is the latest show to tackle the taboo Mothers who have abortions: what to do with TV’s third rail? «We got a beautiful email from a viewer last week,» says Sarah Scheller, co-creator of the ABC’s The Letdown.
Sarah Scheller, co-creator of The Letdown Australian data – thought scant – shows the same trend: that women in their late 20s and 30s are far more likely to have abortions than teenagers; and that mothers, educated women and happily married couples get abortions too.
The Letdown’s second season will be released in July on Netflix in the United States, home to what Scheller calls a «frightening» backlash against abortion rights.
A Missouri judge granted a preliminary injunction in favor of the state‘s last abortion clinic — temporarily preventing the state from becoming the first in the country with no access to legal abortion.
Judge Michael Stelzer’s ruling Monday allows the lone clinic — Reproductive Health Services of Planned Parenthood of the St. Louis Region — to keep performing abortions while a legal battle unfolds between the clinic and state health officials.
New York Top executives from more than 180 companies have a message for lawmakers: Restricting abortion is bad for business.
They argue that limiting access to comprehensive care, including abortion, threatens the health, independence, and economic stability of our employees and customers.
The letter says strict abortion laws are against our values and impede corporate efforts to build diverse workforces.
Gina Raimondo has signed a bill codifying abortion protections, joining other Democratic-controlled states looking to safeguard the procedure as conservative states push ahead on abortion restrictions.
Wade for nearly five decades, Raimondo said in a statement after signing the bill on Wednesday, referencing the landmark Supreme Court decision that legalized abortion nationwide in 1973.
The bill‘s approval comes as other Democratic governors have signed legislation prioritizing abortion protections in response to a slew of Republican state legislatures advancing bills restricting abortion access in an effort to force a potential legal challenge to Roe.
It also repeals measures requiring providers to notify the husbands of married women seeking abortions before conducting the procedure and banning so-called partial birth abortions.
Abortions, death and alcoholism aren’t normal scenes you will see on the big screens, but for a Waikato filmmaker these subjects are a woman‘s reality.
JB Pritzker signed a sweeping abortion access protection bill into law Wednesday.
The bill‘s signage comes as part of a wave of Democratic states opting to codify abortion protections as a slew of Republican states push forward bills restricting abortion access.
The Illinois bill, effective immediately, protects an individual’s fundamental right to make autonomous decisions about one’s own reproductive health, including to continue a pregnancy and give birth or to have an abortion.
The bill repeals the Illinois Abortion Law of 1975, which punished doctors for abortions not deemed necessary, as well as the the state‘s Partial-birth Abortion Ban Act.
New York is slated to become what abortion activists say would be the first city in the country to provide funding for abortions.
New York Mayor Bill de Blasio and City Council Speaker Corey Johnson, both Democrats, announced a budget agreement Friday that included funding for individuals seeking abortions in the city.
The move comes as part of a wave of abortion protections springing up in Democratic legislatures in response to a slew of Republican states advancing bills restricting abortion access.
In contrast to efforts in states like Missouri and Alabama to restrict abortion access, this is to help low-income women in New York City who have faced barriers to access to health care get the care that they need and that they deserve, he said.
Councilwoman Carlina Rivera, a co-chair of the Council’s Women’s Caucus and proponent of the funding, said news of abortion bans cropping up across the country made her feel helpless.
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