Republican lawmakers face backlash after daring to challenge abortion bans

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Multiple Republicans lose primaries after key party allies backed their challengers instead Read more from ProPublica via Salon  

At Turning Point USA conference, women offer away their right to vote

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In her 2025 interview on the podcast “The Pocket with Chris Griffin” – where they labeled her “the female Andrew Tate” – Stone said, “I know for a fact that if women couldn’t vote then abortion wouldn’t be legal in the first place.” …. In April, Democracy Docket reported that the idea that women shouldn’t … Read more

Religious anti-abortion center finds opportunity in town without OB-GYNs

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“Crisis pregnancy centers have, for years and years, capitalized on gaps in access to healthcare,” she said. “In no way, shape, or form do crisis pregnancy centers have the infrastructure or ability or training to bridge those gaps.” According to Swartzendruber’s research, more than 2,600 crisis pregnancy centers operated in the U.S. as of 2024, … Read more

She Faced a Life-Threatening Miscarriage. Under Arkansas’ Abortion Ban, Even Calls to the Governor’s Office Didn’t Help.

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In interviews with seven doctors who worked in Arkansas, all said that no hospitals allow doctors to provide abortions for patients with “inevitable miscarriage” or PPROM without signs of infection. Dr. Dina Epstein, an OB-GYN in Little Rock, said she and her colleagues see cases like Waldorf’s often. They are always excruciating. Her patients often … Read more

Abortion trauma is a myth. Irish women don’t need laws to make them ‘reflect’ on their choices – opinion

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The debate in Ireland thus cannot be separated from a wider global political climate in which reproductive autonomy is increasingly being treated as socially destabilising and in need of policing. Across the US, a rollback of abortion rights has unfolded alongside escalating attacks on contraception access, sex education and trans rights, all under the language … Read more

Abortion bans are making miscarriage treatment more dangerous

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When looking at the study, Jensen said it is particularly “concerning” to see that abortion ban states saw a decline in use of mifepristone, which “reflects growing access disparities between restricted and non-restricted states, which could further widen existing disparities in maternal mortality and morbidity.” Jensen added that patients are put at an increased risk … Read more

Anti-abortion activists’ frustrations escalate after abortion pill ruling

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Both the White House and the Justice Department held closed-door meetings this month with anti-abortion activists who want the president to use executive power more aggressively to cut off access to the procedure. … Students for Life emerged from its own meeting with DOJ officials optimistic, and sent a video message to its followers that … Read more

Abortion clinic protesters eligible for payouts from new Trump ‘anti-weaponization’ fund

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The Justice Department’s new $1.8 billion “anti-weaponization” fund — created by a legal settlement between President Donald Trump and his own administration — could funnel money to activists who broke into and blocked patients from entering abortion clinics. Read more at Politico