Southwest Missouri lawmaker withdraws legislation from the 2024 session that would have allowed the state to charge abortion patients with murder: https://www.ky3.com/2023/12/13/southwest-missouri-lawmaker-withdraws-abortion-homicide-legislation-2024-legislative-session/

Jessica Valenti shares her abortion takeaways on the Marist poll which looks at how Americans’ views align with those of Republican presidential candidates: https://jessica.substack.com/p/abortion-every-day-121323#%C2%A7stats-and-studies

ABC News interviewed over a dozen women who were denied abortions despite risks to their health, fertility, and lives; watch it on Hulu: https://www.hulu.com/series/6908932d-1ba7-46ec-84d9-499cfcdf8e28

Time Magazine discusses how the Texas bans were designed to make getting an abortion nearly impossible, as seen with Kate Cox’s story: https://time.com/6510970/abortion-texas-case/

Landmark study marks progress and critical gaps in reproductive health for California foster youth: https://imprintnews.org/top-stories/landmark-study-marks-progress-and-critical-gaps-in-reproductive-health-for-california-foster-youth/244943

NPR spoke with Dr. Andrea Palmer, a Fort Worth OB-GYN, about the “medical emergency” exception in Texas’ abortion ban and how “pregnancy itself is not a health-neutral situation”: https://www.npr.org/2023/12/17/1219882769/an-ob-gyn-in-texas-weighs-in-on-medical-exceptions-to-the-abortion-ban

Kate Cox’s story adds to the picture that “pregnancy is too complicated to legislate;” Jessica Valenti’s 2022 essay remains relevant: https://jessica.substack.com/p/no-abortion-limits-ever

The Supreme Court has agreed to hear cases regarding mifepristone in 2024: https://www.lawdork.com/p/breaking-supreme-court-takes-up-cases

Kate Cox is leaving Texas to get an abortion. Jessica Valenti asks, “but what if there was no place to go?”: https://jessica.substack.com/p/a-country-of-walking-coffins

U.S. abortion delays raise concern about increased risks: https://www.cpr.org/2023/12/09/abortion-delays-have-grown-more-common-in-the-us-since-roe-v-wade-was-overturned/