Harper thinks it’s an intriguing hypothesis. To test if out, you’d have to do a study to survey people accessing abortion, she says, “and ask if it was the restricted access to contraception that was the reason for the pregnancy that they’re seeking abortion care for.” and “In 2024, 82% of sexually active reproductive age … Read more
Trump’s attorney general pick hints at making national abortion restrictions a priority In a call last week, Blanche, who is serving as both acting attorney general and deputy attorney general and has previously served as Trump’s personal lawyer, suggested that under his leadership, the department would prioritize restrictions on medication abortion. Read more at 19th … Read more
“Erica Schwartz’s testimony … should alarm everyone who believes private medical decisions belong to patients, not politicians,” Mini Timmaraju, the president and CEO of Reproductive Freedom for All, said in a statement. She added that, under the Trump administration, “abortion surveillance could be expanded or weaponized to collect more intrusive information, spread disinformation about reproductive … Read more
The government did not simply remove money from a budget. It cut through years of relationships built in communities where young people already face the greatest barriers to care. The administration canceled 53 grants nationwide as part of a broader overhaul of the federal Teen Pregnancy Prevention Program. Its new funding criteria direct organizations to … Read more
Voters Reject Republicans’ Attempt to Ban Abortion in Kansas Through Back Door The reason that the Supreme Court in such a red state doesn’t move in lockstep with the Republican legislature is its nominating process, known as a “merit-based” system. An independent commission, composed of five lawyers put on the commission by other lawyers and … Read more
Giovannina Anthony has spent the past four years juggling her work as an gynecologist and abortion provider in Wyoming with a new task of suing state lawmakers to keep abortion legal. Read more at 19th News
It’s no surprise that several of the asks of Blanche are about restricting access to medication abortion specifically. Conservatives are furious that abortions have increased, not decreased, since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, in large part due to the availability of abortion pills via telehealth in all 50 states. Project 2025 outlined several … Read more
On a recording of the call posted online Thursday by the religious group Intercessors for America and hosted by the White House Faith Office, Blanche lamented that the Trump administration’s efforts to restrict abortion are “taking longer than we want” but said the Justice Department was “working hand in hand” with federal health agencies and … Read more
Republicans, for their part, have not been shy about their motives. In 2022, then-attorney general candidate Kris Kobach called judicial elections “another path” to restricting abortion, and predicted that instituting them would allow conservatives to “slowly and quietly” overhaul the Kansas Supreme Court. In November 2025, gubernatorial candidate Ty Masterson told anti-abortion voters that supreme court elections … Read more
We’ll have our eye on a Republican-backed ballot referendum to switch Kansas to judicial elections, the first of what both supporters and opponents see as a growing conservative push nationwide to remake courts so that they are more likely to support Republican policies. Its the latest effort by right-wing operatives in the state to undo … Read more
