Senate blocks vote on Right to Contraception Act – news round-up

Senate Republicans block bill to recognize legal right to contraception Ziegler said abortion opponents could even use existing abortion bans to outlaw contraception. After Roe fell, three states – Georgia, Utah and Oklahoma – changed their legal definitions of “abortion” to remove language that protected contraception, according to a draft of a forthcoming paper by … Read more

New ad hits North Carolina Republican Mark Robinson for anti-abortion comments that women didn’t keep their ‘skirt down’

“Abortion in this country is not about protecting the lives of mothers,” Robinson says in the clip used in the ad. “It is about killing the child because you weren’t responsible enough to keep your skirt down.” Read more at NBC News  

“I wasn’t dead enough for an abortion”: Texas mom blames Trump for almost losing her life

Miller, who ultimately received a single fetal abortion and give birth to a healthy son, said she’s not confused about the former president’s positions when it comes to women and reproductive rights. Trump won’t make America great, she said, but he will make it more like Texas, subjecting millions more Americans to the sort of … Read more

“Abortion trafficking”: Idaho GOP poised to pass first bill banning interstate travel for abortion

“There are cases where a minor might not feel safe telling their parents they need abortion care. It could be an abusive family situation,” she said. “It could be any number of circumstances that make it feel unsafe for a 17-year-old to go to her parents, but maybe she has a big sister who can … Read more

Butker’s misogyny is not unique, it’s the conservative agenda

Another lie? That the social problems we have today are caused by the “breakup” of the so-called traditional family, which was set in motion by contraception, abortion and no-fault divorce. So now, the MAGA movement headed by Donald Trump is going after all those things. Read more at The Hill

Washington Republican Softens Stance After Repeatedly Comparing Abortion to Slavery

During his last campaign for Congress, Kent made the slavery analogy more than once. In 2022, his opponent, Marie Gluesenkamp Perez, shared a screenshot in which a high school student DMed her to say that Kent had made a similar argument when visiting their school. The student wrote: “Joe Kent came to my high school … Read more

Texas professors sue to fail students who seek abortions

Even though the plaintiffs suing for the right to flunk female students for abortion include boilerplate arguments in which they feign concern that abortion is “killing,” the legal filing makes it clear that what really outrages Bonevac and Hatfield is that Title IX prevents them from controlling the private lives of students. Along with their … Read more

America braces as supreme court to hand down rulings on raft of key issues

For Manian, the confluence of the pair of abortion cases underlines two critical truths: that the anti-abortion movement will not stop until it has achieved a total abortion ban nationwide, and that by tearing up the right to an abortion, the supreme court has created a legal mess that is likely to dog it for … Read more