All of these efforts — the fake ballot measures, text trickery, and the war on language — are being pushed precisely because Republicans know that Americans support abortion rights. They know they can’t win on their own arguments and merits, so they try to lie and fool voters in order to win. As we speed … Read more
Many in the Republican Party elevated the idea of restricting access to birth control as the next front in the religious right’s war on reproductive rights after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in the summer of 2022 — and some even before that. Read more at Talking Points Memo
Nevadans for Reproductive Freedom, the group leading the effort, announced it had collected more than 200,000 signatures of registered voters — far more than the 103,000 it needed to move forward with the process of qualifying their proposal on the ballot. Read more at NBC News
So the two have teamed up to introduce legislation that they claim would, if it passed the Senate, ensure federal protections for in-vitro fertilization, the extremely popular and highly common procedure used to help people facing fertility issues conceive. … But as the Daily Kos writer Joan McCarter and others noted throughout the day Monday, … Read more
Trump says he will ‘never advocate’ for contraception restrictions after earlier saying he’s ‘looking at’ them Read more at Politico Trump leaves the door open to new restrictions on contraception Around the same time, a variety of GOP lawmakers and candidates also eagerly rejected the Griswold precedent, leading House Democratic leaders — at the time, … Read more
Advocates gathered enough signatures for voters to decide on whether the state can regulate procedure before second trimester Read more at The Guardian
Supporters gather enough valid signatures to put measure – that would enshrine abortion rights into constitution – on to ballot Read more at The Guardian
Ben Carson calls for making divorce harder Carson’s book broadly advocates for a return to traditional, conservative family values. In addition to his push to end no-fault divorce, he calls for a national ban on abortion, men to “assume the responsibility of leadership” in families and cuts to welfare for single mothers in order to … Read more
For voters connected to countries that have long had strong restrictions on abortion, she said, the long-term impact on women’s safety and economic opportunity is not new. “They know it’s directly linked to violence against women. It’s directly linked to high levels of maternal mortality,” she added. Latin America has some of the highest rates … Read more
Since Trump and Republican lawmakers built their Supreme Court conservative supermajority, the justices have issued increasingly radical decisions. The Dobbs decision in 2022 allowed states to ban abortion; this term, the court could limit access to the abortion pill mifepristone, and justices could also allow states to bar hospitals from providing emergency abortion care necessary … Read more
