State launches awareness campaign against anti-abortion centers boston.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from boston.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
State officials launched a new public awareness campaign Monday that targets crisis pregnancy centers that they say purport to offer legitimate reproductive health care but ultimately provide misleading information.
Pro-choice advocates in Arizona said they have surpassed the threshold of required signatures to put a measure on the November ballot which would add abortion protections to the state Constitution. Chris Love, spokesperson for the group Arizona for Abortion Access, said more than 500,000 signatures from voters in favor of the amendment have been collected, significantly higher than the almost 384,000 needed. Love contended it speaks to how important reproductive freedom is to Arizonans. .
Missouri residents are worried about future access to birth control. The latest survey from The Right Time, an initiative based in Missouri, focused on efforts to improve access to contraception across the state. These concerns are shared across political affiliations. .
The Alabama House and Senate both passed bills this week that would help people resume in vitro fertilization and provide legal protections for providers and patients in certain cases. Senate Bill 159 and its companion House Bill 237 passed swiftly despite debates surrounding immunity and personhood. While this is a positive step that allows families to resume treatments, said Heidi Miller, development manager for the reproductive-justice group Yellowhammer Fund, they re still concerned with the limited timeframe offered by the bills, including the one sponsored by Sen. .