Featured story, from Sandy West: “The whole system is premised on commodifying human beings, regardless of whether or not it’s a for-profit or a nonprofit agency. And anytime you’re talking about people as a commodity, I don’t know what that looks like to do ethically.” https://www.texasobserver.org/private-adoption-agencies-legal-custody-battles/

"Texans who sought an abortion out of state more than quadrupled between 2021 and 2023 after a state law went into effect that bans the procedure in almost all cases."

https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/5432293-texas-out-of-state-abortions/

"Now, a new ProPublica data analysis adds empirical weight to the mounting evidence that abortion bans have made the common experience of miscarriage — which occurs in up to 30% of pregnancies — far more dangerous. It is based on hospital discharge data from Texas, the largest state to ban abortion, and captures emergency department visits from 2017 to 2023, the most recent year available."

https://www.propublica.org/article/texas-abortion-ban-miscarriage-blood-transfusions via @ProPublica

"Backed by a mix of state, local and philanthropic money, Rx Kids gives mothers of newborns up to $7,500, with no income requirements and no rules for how the money is spent. Supporters believe the program could be a model for mitigating the high cost of having children in the U.S."

https://apnews.com/article/michigan-program-gives-pregnant-women-mom-cash-175737a063b51907abe0df0f11197cef

"A Georgia woman declared brain-dead and kept on life support for more than three months because she was pregnant was removed from a ventilator in June and died, days after doctors delivered her 1-pound, 13-ounce baby by emergency cesarean section. The baby is in the neonatal intensive care unit."

https://kffhealthnews.org/news/article/brain-dead-pregnant-woman-georgia-personhood/

The Costs of Restricting Abortion? More Than $130 Billion Per Year.

When the US Supreme Court decided to overrule Roe v. Wade three years ago, the ruling had sweeping consequences for public health, making pregnancy much riskier, leading to the preventable deaths of pregnant women, and causing a spike in infant mortality. Now, research suggests the country has also suffered hundreds of billions of dollars in […]

https://voices.murica.website/julianne-mcshane/the-costs-of-restricting-abortion-more-than-130-billion-per-year/

The International Provider

Three years ago, in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, the Supreme Court’s conservative majority enabled states to severely restrict abortion or ban it outright. Since then, 17 states have enacted such limits; infant and maternal mortality have risen in many of them. But the impact of overturning Roe v. Wade extends far beyond medical catastrophes. It […]

https://voices.murica.website/abby-vesoulis/the-international-provider/

Funder, Pilot, Survivor, Physician: Inside the Network Assisting Abortion Journeys

Three years ago, in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, the Supreme Court’s conservative majority enabled states to severely restrict abortion or ban it outright. Since then, 17 states have enacted such limits; infant and maternal mortality have risen in many of them. But the impact of overturning Roe v. Wade extends far beyond medical […]

https://voices.murica.website/abby-vesoulis/funder-pilot-survivor-physician-inside-the-network-assisting-abortion-journeys/

If you're not a fan of capitalism...

If you're outraged by the separation of immigrant families...

Are you also speaking up about the adoption industry that commodifies children and transfers them primarily from women without means to wealthier families?

If you understand the problems associated with international and transracial adoption, do you extend your concern to transferring children between families for reasons of social status and class ("opportunity")?

Did you know that the vast majority of women denied abortions choose to parent their "unwanted" children rather than transferring those children to other families?

If you still think adoption is a good "solution" to the problem of "unwanted pregnancies" (aka lack of financial resources and social safety net, primarily), it's time to update your understanding.

Adoption’s warm, fuzzy reputation doesn’t hold up to reality

https://archive.ph/NCMS6

Police in UK can now take women's phones and check their period tracking app

Several women's health and safety organisations have spoken out against the 'shocking' new guidance, vowing to 'aggressively challenge' it

"New guidance in the UK has handed British police the power to trawl through women's phones if they suspect said individual has undergone an illegal abortion.

As per an announcement made by the National Police Chiefs Council (NPCC) last month, officers investigating the causes of stillbirths, miscarriages and unexpected pregnancy losses will now be permitted access to check menstrual cycle tracking apps.

The alleged aim of the incoming procedure is to 'establish a woman’s knowledge and intention in relation to the pregnancy.'"

#UKPol #ReproductiveRights #ReproductiveJustice

https://www.tyla.com/news/uk-police-force-checking-womens-phones-period-apps-illegal-abortion-468700-20250606?fbclid=IwQ0xDSwK3BkRleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHo9dTikN0i4iv1z06L-2mGDMbTt-B-aQfQdTw9S4YfpfkHlnUeCPJOiHkX1C_aem_0lFBKwqqr27GIRjaumgqfQ

Funny how the conclusions drawn from these reports never include "Oh, the problem is capitalism."

"Roughly 40 percent of respondents cited economic barriers – such as the costs of raising children, job insecurity and expensive housing – as the main reason for having fewer children"

“Governments may need to tax working people more or take on more debt...” [professor of social statistics and demography] Wisniowski noted."

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/6/10/money-not-infertility-un-report-says-why-birth-rates-are-plummeting?

More States Consider Curbing Drug Testing at Childbirth

A growing number of states are considering legislation to set up protections for patients who might be drug tested when they give birth. Three of the bills were introduced following an investigative series by The Marshall Project and Reveal that exposed the harms of drug testing at childbirth — including how many patients are often […]

https://voices.murica.website/shoshana-walter/more-states-consider-curbing-drug-testing-at-childbirth/

A Doctor’s Impassioned Defense of Later Abortions

Dr. Shelley Sella kept a journal from the very first day she got on a plane to go work for George Tiller, the third-trimester abortion provider who was assassinated in 2009. As the first woman to openly provide third-trimester abortions in the US, she spent nearly 20 years commuting from her home in California to […]

https://voices.murica.website/madison-pauly/a-doctors-impassioned-defense-of-later-abortions/

She Got an Abortion. So A Texas Cop Used 83,000 Cameras to Track Her Down.

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/05/she-got-abortion-so-texas-cop-used-83000-cameras-track-her-down

#SurveillanceTechnologies #Street-LevelSurveillance #ReproductiveJustice

Forget Dobbs—The Personhood Movement Wants Much More

To hear people in the anti-abortion movement tell it, the idea that human personhood begins at fertilization is as old as the Bible. But as abortion historian Mary Ziegler writes in her latest book, Personhood: The New Civil War Over Reproduction, the legal movement for fetal personhood only dates from the 1960s, when anti-abortion activists […]

https://voices.murica.website/nina-martin/forget-dobbs-the-personhood-movement-wants-much-more/

Christian Fascist Youngkin abuses his power with government intrusion in women's lives. Vetoed contraception, and Confederate tax exemption bills again
#FascistGlennYoungkin #ReproductiveJustice
#VirginiaForcedBirthState https://www.dcnewsnow.com/news/local-news/virginia/youngkin-vetoes-contraception-confederate-tax-exemption-bills-signs-other-bipartisan-measures/