Abortion will stay banned in Idaho, voters decide Idaho’s abortion ban has driven doctors out of the state and forced patients to fly elsewhere for emergency medical care. Read more at 19th News Missouri voters reject effort to ban abortion in the state The ballot measure’s failure offers a rebuke to efforts by Missouri’s Republican … Read more
Voters in Nevada, Virginia and Missouri passed or strengthened protections for women’s reproductive freedom Read more at The Guardian
Elections in Missouri, Maine and Michigan reflected how voters treated abortion as a proxy for broader political angst. Read more at 19th News
Just in the past couple of months, the Republican attorneys general of Louisiana, Arkansas and Alabama have sued California, Massachusetts and New York before the Supreme Court over shield laws that protect providers in the liberal-leaning states when they send abortion medications to patients in states with bans. The same conservative attorneys general have also … Read more
This all has created an opening for a new, untainted class of influencers to step into the spotlight. The “theobros,” as they’re called by critics, are a loosely connected network of extremely online Christian nationalist pastors who podcast and post constantly. Their central conceit is mapping out what a white Christian patriarchy could look like … Read more
Psychopatriarchy is a reaction, a backlash against the progress we have made on all fronts: women’s rights, civil rights, immigrant rights, workers rights, trans rights etc. It has birthed an authoritarian fascist reality, poisoning our social and psychological environment with terrorizing violence, cruelty and precarity. It has consolidated the billionaire class who are driven by … Read more
The incumbent Republican senator and former OB-GYN is in danger of losing his seat to Adam Hamilton, a moderate megachurch pastor. Read more at 19th News
As Texas attorney general, Paxton has advanced anti-abortion policy in his home state and prevailed where others have failed. Allies who’ve witnessed his victories see an opening to keep moving their cause forward if his Senate bid is successful. Read more at Pro Publica
Republicans delay major action on abortion until after midterm elections, and Democrats focus on affordability Read more at The Guardian
The suit targets four people associated with Students for Life for allegedly ordering abortion medications into Texas without intending to use them personally. In a March social media post, the named defendants claimed to be ordering the pills “undercover” to illustrate that they are still available to people in the state. HB 7 does not … Read more
