Martin Donohoe

Jul 20, 2023 | truthout.org | Sharon Zhang |Martin Donohoe |Jen Deerinwater |Zane McNeill

In the first year of abortion being nearly fully banned in Texas, infant mortality rose for the first time in seven years, nearly entirely undoing years of progress on infant mortality in a single year, new data shows. According to preliminary data obtained from the Texas Department of State Health Services by CNN, infant mortality increased by 11.5 percent in 2022 over the previous year. Overall, about 2,200 infants died, an increase of 227 deaths from 2021.

Jul 18, 2023 | truthout.org | Chris Walker |Jen Deerinwater |Duaa Eldeib |Martin Donohoe

A district judge in Iowa has placed an indefinite hold on a recently passed statewide ban on abortion at six weeks, which had passed last week after a special session was convened by Republican Gov. Kim Reynolds. Polk County District Court Judge Joseph Seidlin issued his ruling on Monday, putting an injunction on the law while a lawsuit challenging it runs its course.

Jul 9, 2023 | truthout.org | Martin Donohoe |Ja’Loni Owens |Julie Bowen |Lizzie Chadbourne

Academic medical centers’ lackluster defense of abortion access is moral malpractice. It’s time for civil disobedience. It has been more than one year since the United States Supreme Court, in a controversial decision not supported by a majority of Americans, overturned Roe v. Wade, returning authority over abortion’s legality to the states. Since the decision in Dobbs v.