A rightwing thinktank report proposing sweeping restrictions to abortions and fertility treatments was endorsed by JD Vance years before he became a fervent backer of Donald Trump and – eventually – his vice-presidential running mate known for his derisive views on childless women. In 2017, months into Trump’s presidency, Vance wrote the foreword to the … Read more
Cecile Richards, former president of Planned Parenthood, tells me: “Gov. Landry is leading a race to the bottom. The results have been catastrophic for women in Louisiana, and there is no doubt in my mind that everything he’s doing in this state will ultimately serve as a model for anti-abortion politicians across the country.” Read … Read more
Nevertheless, Democrats on Tuesday accused Trump of wanting to outlaw birth control, abortion and IVF, using his wavering as evidence that voters can’t trust what he says. They emphasized that if the Trump-appointed justices had not overturned Roe then there wouldn’t be open questions on such policies. “He’s the one,” said Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.), … Read more
“States with the most severe abortion restrictions have the least public infrastructure to support families,” said Dr. Nigel Madden, a maternal-fetal medicine physician at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, who led the study published Wednesday in the American Journal of Public Health. Read more at NBC News
Proposed constitutional amendments will put the future of abortion access directly in the hands of voters in states across the country in November. Read more at NBC News
Kamarck added: “What the abortion decision did was way beyond abortion. It was about fundamental freedoms. Can the government come into your bedroom or into your home or into your doctor’s office and make decisions for you? That’s scary. It’s particularly scary to a country, to an electorate, that was built on freedom, so here … Read more
Corey Lewandowski is back advising Donald Trump‘s presidential campaign, and he’s spreading his boss’ vicious, ugly lie that Vice President Kamala Harris and moms in blue states support killing babies. It is absolutely false that Democrats are in favor of infanticide. It’s just another vicious lie to demonize women who support reproductive autonomy by a … Read more
Dr. Catherine Birndorf, a reproductive psychiatrist and founder of The Motherhood Center of New York, states, “Whatever you believe about a woman’s right to have an abortion, the irrefutable medical fact is that forced pregnancy — when a woman or girl becomes pregnant without seeking or desiring it, and abortion is denied, hindered, delayed or … Read more
After months of Donald Trump attempting to repaint himself as a moderate on abortion — despite the former president bragging that he killed Roe v. Wade — he has finally bent the knee to anti-abortion leaders. On Friday, Trump declared that he would vote against a ballot measure in Florida that would restore access to … Read more
Donald Trump’s running mate, JD Vance, said that professional women “choose a path to misery” when they prioritize careers over having children in a September 2021 podcast interview in which he also claimed men in America were “suppressed” in their masculinity. Read more at The Guardian
