President Trump has apparently appointed a Colorado lawyer named Joshua Craddock to serve as his deputy assistant attorney general in the Office of Legal Counsel at DOJ, according to a Twitter post by Craddock announcing the appointment earlier this month. As my colleague Josh Kovensky pointed out to me earlier today, Craddock has made the … Read more
A movement that believes abortion should be treated as homicide has grown alongside a Republican penchant for punishment Read more at The Guardian
Earlier this week, the powerful Students for Life of America released its wishlist of federal legislation, entitled “Make America Pro-Life Again”, which takes direct aim at access to abortion pills. The group is backing federal bills that would ban abortion pills entirely, outlaw telehealth abortions and require medical-grade cleanup of the pregnancy remains left behind … Read more
“State constitutions provide no protection whatsoever against Comstock Act, against the Trump national abortion ban, against fetal personhood within the 14th Amendment,” Cohen explained. “Which is why there were many of us who were trying to get the word out before the election, that if you really do care about reproductive freedom and vote accordingly … Read more
Trump, and the conservative-activist elite that Vance hails from, have a clear plan for limiting women’s access to abortion should they win in November. This could take the form of a congressionally authorized ban if Republicans have a big enough majority, which Trump and Vance would simply refer to as a “minimum national standard.” Or … Read more
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
As I reported, though, leading legal scholars begged to differ: The platform invokes the Fourteenth Amendment, which the GOP has, for decades, cited as the key to enshrining fetal personhood in the law. That would amount to a de facto national abortion ban by establishing embryos as US citizens entitled to “equal protection of the laws,” among … Read more
“The key to their true agenda here is the suggestion that the 14th Amendment of the federal constitution somehow empowers states to ban abortion,” Kolbi-Molinas said. “They are signaling that embryos and fetuses are persons under the 14th Amendment, which is simply not true. And if that were the case, if embryos and fetuses had … Read more
