After the FDA’s continual neglect of reviewing emergency contraception, advocates are looking to state governments to make EC available to women in (as of right now) about 12 different states.

Under the proposed Maryland law, pharmacists who volunteer to receive special training may dispense the pills. The law does not require all pharmacists to furnish the pills, and the State Board of Pharmacy estimated 5 percent of Maryland’s 5,331 licensed pharmacists would initially participate.
Legislation in other states would allow pharmacists to provide Plan B directly to women under an agreement with a doctor giving the pharmacist blanket permission to sell the drug or require emergency rooms to provide it to rape victims, said Elizabeth Nash, a public policy associate at ...

Nothing pretty. This past week when South Dakota passed one of the most restrictive anti-choice, anti-abortion bills seen in the last ten years, some anti-choicers jumped for joy at the prospect of overturning Roe. The question is, could this tragically regressive move hurt the anti-choice movement?

New York Times discusses,

The South Dakota strategy itself has already splintered the anti-abortion movement. One faction is chafing at the timing of this campaign, wondering aloud whether the court — and, perhaps more important, the American public — will really embrace a complete reversal of Roe just yet.
Some, like Daniel McConchie of Americans United for Life, which did not take part in the South Dakota effort, said they would ...