CANADA – Clinic 554, Fredericton, New Brunswick, closing

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In May 2019, we reported that Clinic 554 (formerly the Morgenthaler Clinic) had receivedthe Peter Gillespie Social Justice Award, recognising their commitment to sexual and reproductive health and rights. It is the only freestanding abortion clinic in the province of New Brunswick, and also provides health care to much of the province’s transgender population. The clinic has previously relied on crowd-sourced donations to stay open, and staff would sometimes forgo payment from patients in order to provide services. … Continued

FACEBOOK AGAIN !! – Facebook took down a fact-check of two anti-abortion videos that deny abortion is ever medically necessary

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Ectopic pregnancy can kill if left untreated. In most cases, the only way to treat it is to end the pregnancy with medication or surgery. But some abortion opponents are arguing that patients with ectopic pregnancies can simply be monitored until they miscarry – or even that such pregnancies can be carried to term. This is dangerous rubbish. Yet it seems that anti-abortion fantasising is a contagious disease in the USA, infecting even Republican Senators. … Continued

TEXAS, USA – Reducing under-reporting of stigmatized pregnancy outcomes: results from a mixed-methods study of self-managed abortion in Texas using the list-experiment method

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Accurately measuring stigmatized experiences is a challenge across reproductive health research. In this study, we tested a novel method – the list experiment – that aims to reduce under-reporting of sensitive events by asking participants to report how many of a list of experiences they have had, not which ones. We applied the list experiment to measure “self-managed abortion”

GOOGLE – Google continues to allow anti-abortion clinics to post deceptive adverts

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As has been reported from many sources, anti-abortion centres have been set up, which are often called “crisis pregnancy centres”, especially in North America and Western Europe, whose main aim is to attract women seeking abortions by offering services they do not offer, and then trying to discourage them from having abortions. This is distressing for women and delays them from finding the services they actually want. In May 2019, it was reported that Google … Continued

USA: FROM BAD TO WORSE AND WORSE

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6 stories from the USA:

The US Department of Health and Human Services’ new “domestic gag rule,” effective from 19 August 2019, requires that all health care providers in the $286 million Title X programme, which funds services for the poor, must not refer patients to abortion providers. If facilities do offer abortion care, it must be physically and financially separated from other services. The Planned Parenthood Federation of America, which serves 1.6 million recipients of Title X funding and the largest provider of comprehensive reproductive health care for poor women in the USA, refused to sign.

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