‘They hate God’: US anti-abortion activists aim to fight back on 51st Roe anniversary

“I want to see no abortions be legal, ever,” she said in an interview. She rejected the notion that abortions performed to save women’s lives qualify as abortions. “When you’re looking at a case where a woman’s life is at risk, where the physician believes that she can no longer safely carry her child in … Read more

New York GOP challenged on abortion rights on Roe anniversary

“It’s crystal clear to me that the GOP is fully committed to a nationwide abortion ban,” Rep. Pat Ryan (D-N.Y.) said in an interview. “They’re continuing to even more aggressively pursue that, literally choosing a speaker of the House that authored the bill for a nationwide abortion ban. And that would certainly affect New York.” … Read more

With Roe in the background, policies to advance a culture of life take center stage (opinion)

If you have recently been to a restaurant, you may have been asked to wait for a table, even if the restaurant is nearly empty. In this all-too-common scenario, the problem isn’t space, it’s workers — or lack of them. When I visit businesses throughout south central Kansas, nearly every business owner tells me they … Read more

Even at March for Life, abortion opponents don’t talk about a national ban

Johnson highlighted two bills House Republicans passed this week. One would block a proposed federal rule meant to keep states from using money from the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families program (TANF) — one of the programs most often associated with the term welfare — to support anti-abortion centers. Another bill would require that colleges … Read more

Doctors face ‘a perpetual rollercoaster’ as abortion returns to the Supreme Court

Doctors across the country told The 19th that they have struggled to stay on top of the latest developments in abortion lawsuits since the Supreme Court’s decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, which overturned federal abortion protections. That confusion, some said, could stop physicians even from providing legal pregnancy-related health care. Read more … Read more