A law professor has confronted US Republican Senator Josh Hawley over a line of questions during an abortion hearing. Khiara Bridges highlighted the importance of inclusive language in the abortion rights movement. Watch the full video here:
It has been several weeks since the Supreme Court of the United States overturned the landmark 1973 Roe V Wade ruling, which recognised a nationwide right to abortion.
The guidance came after President Joe Biden, a Democrat, signed an executive order on Friday seeking to ease access to services to terminate pregnancies after the ruling.Abortion services ceased in Texas after the state's highest court on 2 July - at Mr Paxton's urging - cleared the way for a nearly century-old abortion ban to take effect.
Professor Khiara Bridges, from the University of California Berkeley School of Law, testified before the US Senate Judiciary Committee on Tuesday. "Are you saying that I’m opening up people to violence by asking whether or not women are the folks who can have pregnancies?” Senator Hawley said. Indiana's attorney general said on Thursday he was investigating whether the physician who performed the abortion abided by state laws requiring doctors to report the termination of a pregnancy and suspected cases of child abuse.
On Monday, Ms Noblin's pharmacist said she could not give her the drug until she had confirmed with the woman's doctor that the medication would not be used to induce an abortion. Methotrexate can be used to end a pregnancy. A pregnant woman in Texas who was fined for driving solo in a carpool lane said her fetus must be counted as a passenger in the wake of strict new abortion laws.
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