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South Carolina is considering imposing a total abortion ban.
Currently, South Carolina bans abortion care after six weeks of pregnancy. The bill scheduled for debate in the state legislature in early October would outlaw the procedure entirely, including in cases of rape and incest....

Infant mortality has risen in states that enacted tighter abortion restrictions in the wake of the June 2022 Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health decision. This occurs for newborns—those less than a day old—as well as older infants—those 1 month to 1 year...

This story was originally reported by Shefali Luthra and Barbara Rodriguez of The 19th, and republished through Rewire News Group’s partnership with The 19th News Network.
The federal government’s reported plans to link pregnant people’s use of acetaminophen—the pain-relief drug sold under the brand name Tylenol—as a cause of autism could worsen their health and stigmatize one of the few treatments pregnant people have...

Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry’s administration has failed to regulate or provide oversight of public money given to anti-abortion “crisis pregnancy centers” over the past year, as required by state law.
The Louisiana Department of Children and Family Services did not monitor how state dollars were spent at “crisis pregnancy centers,” create regulations for how they can use that money, or track whether the centers met the goals of their state contracts...