A leading medical advisory panel has recommended that all insurers be required to cover contraceptives for women free of charge as one of several preventive services under the new health care law, the New York Times reports.
A federal judge on 1 July blocked a new South Dakota abortion law requiring the longest waiting period in the nation at 72-hours and a meeting at an anti-abortion counselling centre before a woman can have the procedure.
Dennis Daugaard signed a law on 22 March requiring women to wait three days after meeting with a doctor to have an abortion, the longest waiting period in the nation.
Pope Benedict XVI has urged doctors to protect women from ‘misinformation’ that an abortion might be an acceptable solution to social or economic difficulties or health problems, reports the Scottish Catholic Observer.
The state’s new ‘fetal pain’ law meant that Danielle Deaver had to wait to give birth to a baby that she and her doctors knew would die minutes later, reports NebraskaStatePaper.com.
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