Through its reimagined version of the Comstock Act, the right wing seeks to enforce a traditional view of women and their roles, sexual purity and societal control over reproduction, a view that limits what people can say and think, as well as what they can do. In the era of “Don’t Say Gay” mandates and … Read more
The MAGA Republican Party’s war on abortion has largely overshadowed its attempts to ban our right to contraception and its refusal to preserve this well-established right. Given that 90 percent of Americans support the right to use birth control, this commonsense issue should be noncontroversial. Read more at The Hill
“It’s misleading, it’s deceptive, and if it weren’t so serious, it would be laughable,” O’Connor said in an interview that the process Ohio uses to allow citizens to amend its constitution has been in place since 1912. “When you keep changing the rules and moving the goalposts, you are intentionally silencing the vote of the … Read more
One year after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, putting an end to the constitutionally protected right to access abortion, the health care landscape has become increasingly fragmented and complex to navigate, spawning widespread confusion. Read more at National Public Radio, Inc.
While there is no law in the U.S. that regulates what a man can do with his body, the reproductive health of women is now more regulated than it has been in 50 years. And the scope of reproductive health care that women can receive is highly dependent on where they live. Read more at … Read more
Biden slams ‘devastating consequences’ of abortion bans on Dobbs anniversary Biden said in a statement that the court’s ruling has allowed states to implement “extreme and dangerous” abortion bans that have jeopardized the life and health of women, forced them to potentially travel hundreds of miles to receive health care and threatened to declare doctors … Read more
At the heart of all these prosecutions, whether targeting men or women, was the same impulse that led to the criminalization of abortion and the passage of the Comstock Act: the desire to control and limit women’s lives in order to protect the traditional family structure and ensure the preservation of both individual family social … Read more
“The cause of life is the calling of our time, and we must not rest and must not relent until we restore the sanctity of life to the center of American law in every state,” Pence told a crowd that numbered several hundred. “Every Republican candidate for president should support a ban on abortion before … Read more
Some organizations that finance abortion care are spending donations quicker than they’re receiving them — threatening one of the last support systems for abortion. Read more at Huffpost
Federal prosecutions of abortion-related crimes are way up in the year since the court overturned Roe v. Wade. Read more at Politico
