Arizona supreme court upholds 1864 law banning almost all abortions “Today’s decision to reimpose a law from a time when Arizona wasn’t a state, the civil war was raging, and women couldn’t even vote will go down in history as a stain on our state,” Mayes said in a statement. Read more at The Guardian … Read more
As the couple continued to recount memories of the pregnancy, text on the screen read, “Because Donald Trump killed Roe v. Wade, Amanda was denied standard medical care to prevent infection, an abortion.” Doctors were forced to send Amanda home and three days later, Amanda wound up in the ICU with sepsis, according to the … Read more
Since 1999, Trump has been on just about every side of the abortion issue. Here’s a timeline of his many positions. Read more at NBC News
These radical social conservatives could define Trump’s second term. Read more at Vox
Anti-abortion advocates are reading between the lines What to know about Trump’s abortion announcement The easiest way for Trump to move the needle on abortion policy during a second term is through executive action — a topic he did not address Monday. Anti-abortion advocates told POLITICO they don’t view Trump’s declaration that abortion should be … Read more
Florida’s law not only bans abortion after six weeks but also bans abortion by telemedicine and requires any medication abortion to be dispensed in person, which effectively outlaws mail orders of the pills. (Researchers have affirmed there is no medical need for abortion pills to be administered in the physical presence of a health care … Read more
The groups are not advocating banning IVF but want new restrictions that would significantly curtail access to the procedure. Read more at Politico
Also looming over the abortion ballot battle is a state Supreme Court decision, which could drop at any moment, over an 1864 abortion ban that’s still on the books. That law has not been in effect since before Roe v. Wade, but it made performing or helping a woman obtain abortion care a felony punishable … Read more
The far right the Heritage Foundation belongs to is, nevertheless, driving toward this goal by striving to take away birth control and abortion to make sex punitively risky for anyone who might get pregnant. Taking away women’s reproductive freedom takes away other freedoms, social, economic and educational, and rebuilds a society of gender inequality, which … Read more
The disjunction between Brown’s interview and his remarks up to that point is a microcosm of the broader challenge facing Republicans as they seek to retake the Senate on a map that favors their candidates. To win, they must move past their unpopular support for the overturning of the nationwide abortion rights granted by the … Read more
