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
Last week, as they awaited word from the high court about the fate of telehealth abortions, anti-abortion activists secured a closed-door meeting with Justice Department officials. There, they pushed the agency to revive a long dormant policy that could cut off virtually all access to both mifepristone and misoprostol — an 1800s-era anti-vice law known … Read more
Students for Life of America is pushing the federal agency to include an anti-abortion drug on its list of drinking water contaminants. Read more at Politico
The anti-abortion group Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America is warning Republicans against signing onto a new effort to force a floor vote on extending Obamacare subsidies — upping the stakes of a push by GOP moderates to make an end run around leadership on the issue. Read more at Politico
Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America and its affiliated super PAC plan to pour $80 million into electing anti-abortion candidates in 2026 in at least four battleground states, according to plans shared first with POLITICO. Read more at Politico
The White House’s decision to stop short of an IVF mandate or taxpayer-funded program highlights the power that social conservatives and anti-abortion advocates still wield within the administration — even as their agenda has at times clashed with the secular flank of the GOP’s natalist wing that wants more government intervention to help families have … Read more
RFK Jr. Finally Gets Around to Bringing His War on Medical Science to Abortion But lawsuits aren’t enough for the increasingly antsy anti-abortion movement: Their allies control the White House, after all. Why not just use the machinery of the administration to restrict mifepristone out of accessibility? Kennedy is finally responding. By leaning on the … Read more
Anti-abortion groups have been making the rounds to congressional offices in recent weeks to make the case that the enhanced credits subsidize elective abortion — in breach of long-standing restrictions enacted by Congress, under the so-called Hyde Amendment, that prohibit federal funds to be used for the procedure with few exceptions. Read more at Politico … Read more
The legislation lets private citizens sue people who mail abortion medications to Texans. It offers a blueprint for state lawmakers trying to stop their residents from circumventing abortion bans. Read more at 19th News
Conservatives are testing a new argument in their legal efforts to end telehealth abortion: People using mail-order medication are being coerced into ending their pregnancies. *** Health care providers said they more often see patients navigating the opposite form of reproductive coercion: People are seeking abortions when their partners are trying to force them to … Read more
