Fight over US healthcare subsidies stuck on familiar snag: abortion
Republicans refuse to advance without more restrictions on abortion coverage – Democrats say that’s a nonstarter Read more at The Guardian
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Trump Has Made Pregnancy in America Harder Than Ever
Over the past few months, we’ve also seen officials, and the panelists they invite, in the Department for Health and Human Services push a very narrow prescription for how pregnant patients, predominantly women, should behave; one that looks down upon such noncontroversial things as pain medication, mental health treatment, and the use of formula to … Read more
NIH ends funding of research that uses human fetal tissue from abortions
Fetal tissue has been used to advance research into a large number of diseases, including diabetes, Alzheimer’s and infertility. The tissue has also played a role in the development and production of vaccines for polio, hepatitis A, rabies and other illnesses. Read more at The Guardian
Louisiana wants a California doctor extradited to face abortion charges. Newsom isn’t having it.
“Louisiana’s request is denied,” Newsom said in a statement. “We will not allow extremist politicians from other states to reach into California and try to punish doctors based on allegations that they provided reproductive health care services. Not today. Not ever.” Read more at Politico
Virginia voters will decide the future of abortion access
Virginians will determine whether to enshrine the protection of reproductive rights into the state constitution later this year. Read more at 19th News
The Unspeakable, Enabled
It’s beyond clear that the technologies being imposed upon us exaggerate and enable tendencies that used to be unspeakable. They normalize abuse, and they have already normalized gendered hatred. These compulsions come from the same place as the impulse to punish Renee Nicole Good for protesting, for not bending to patriarchal authority. Read more at … Read more
Abortion may no longer be a top priority for Democratic voters ahead of 2026 midterms, polls show
In 2024, 55% of Democrats said abortion was important to their vote, according to polling from the Public Religion Research Institute (PRRI). But in October of this year, just 36% of Democrats said the same. By contrast, abortion remained about as important to Republicans in both 2024 and 2025, PRRI found. PRRI’s findings mirror a … Read more
US woman charged with fetal homicide after allegedly inducing own abortion
Kentucky state police arrested the woman, Melinda S Spencer, 35, on charges of fetal homicide in the first degree, abuse of a corpse and tampering with physical evidence, according to a local Kentucky news outlet. Spencer reportedly ordered medication online to end her pregnancy, then buried the remains of her pregnancy in her backyard. Read … Read more
Trump administration bans US veterans agency from providing abortions
The Department of Veterans Affairs can no longer provide abortions to veterans, including in cases of rape or incest, following a Department of Justice memo that found last week that the practice was not legally sound. Read more at The Guardian
How Trump Is Making the Federal Judiciary Younger, Whiter, and More Republican
Despite the problems with Benton and Lea, no one came off worse at this week’s hearing than Justin Olson, an Indianapolis lawyer who specializes in litigation seeking to exclude transgender athletes from college sports. Louisiana Republican Senator John Kennedy asked Olson about his time as an ordained elder in the Reformed Presbyterian Church of North America, … Read more