In a statement, the Harris-Walz campaign called Trump’s IVF promise a “brazen lie”, and pointed out that the Republican party’s 2024 platform, which is linked on the Trump campaign website, states in its section on abortion and fertility treatment14s that the states are “free to pass laws” enforcing 14th amendment rights – a nod to … Read more
In additional resurfaced clips, Vance has said that people without children should pay higher taxes, and that people with children should be given more voting power than those without children. Read more at The Guardian
With an election looming, activists and providers worry that this could soon change: Under the strange rules governing the capital, Congress can simply ignore the locals and enact municipal laws, meaning a Republican trifecta could quickly lead to a D.C. ban. That’s what some anti-abortion organizations are calling for. And while Donald Trump now says … Read more
As much as Sen. Mike Lee may deny Republicans are coming after birth control, the pattern is clear. Democrats offer Republicans one chance after another to vote for birth control rights, and every time, Republicans vote against it. Increasingly, major MAGA leaders are admitting out loud that they are coming for birth control. Read more … Read more
“After 50 years of failure, with nobody coming even close, I was able to kill Roe v. Wade, much to the ‘shock’ of everyone,” Trump said in a May 2023 social media post. And as recently as March, Trump flirted with the notion of a 15-week federal abortion ban, telling a local radio host that … Read more
After Welker pointed out that it seemed Warren wasn’t buying Trump and Vance’s spin on this, she stomped down even harder, saying, “Don’t buy it? Just read it. JD Vance actually sent a letter last year to the Department of Justice to enforce the Comstock Act. And remember he did that, and then Donald Trump … Read more
One proposed amendment, known as “Protect the Right to Abortion,” would amend the state’s constitution to say that “all persons shall have a fundamental right to abortion until fetal viability, or when needed to protect the life or health of the pregnant patient.” The other proposed amendment, called the “Protect Women and Children,” bars abortions … Read more
The Arkansas Supreme Court affirmed the Secretary of State’s assertion that supporters did not submit the correct documents at the right time. Read more at 19th News
Almost two-thirds of Americans say abortion should be legal in most cases, but almost zero percent of people at the Heritage Foundation seem to believe the same. The much-publicized Project 2025—a governmental blueprint drawn up by the powerful think tank that got regular name-checks yesterday—asserts that abortion is “not health care.” (The document mentions abortion … Read more
The Arkansas Supreme Court sided with state officials in a ruling on Thursday that will keep an abortion rights question off the ballot in November over what is, essentially, a paperwork issue. The court upheld state officials’ decision to reject certain signatures that were collected by paid petitioners. The officials had found that the organizers … Read more
