Trump may sound moderate on abortion. The groups setting his agenda definitely aren’t.
These radical social conservatives could define Trump’s second term. Read more at Vox
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Trump’s announcement on abortion: Ramifications if he becomes president – news round-up
Anti-abortion advocates are reading between the lines What to know about Trump’s abortion announcement The easiest way for Trump to move the needle on abortion policy during a second term is through executive action — a topic he did not address Monday. Anti-abortion advocates told POLITICO they don’t view Trump’s declaration that abortion should be … Read more
Republicans are rushing to defend IVF. The anti-abortion movement hopes to change their minds
The groups are not advocating banning IVF but want new restrictions that would significantly curtail access to the procedure. Read more at Politico
The Republican party has become a full-fledged anti-sex movement – opinion
The far right the Heritage Foundation belongs to is, nevertheless, driving toward this goal by striving to take away birth control and abortion to make sex punitively risky for anyone who might get pregnant. Taking away women’s reproductive freedom takes away other freedoms, social, economic and educational, and rebuilds a society of gender inequality, which … Read more
The Group Behind Dobbs Does Not Want to Talk About What Comes Next
She was candid about the fact that the ADF’s current lawsuit is part of a much broader legal strategy to restrict access to abortion, and she defended her belief that the 14th Amendment guarantees equal protection to all embryos from the moment of conception — a position that, if endorsed by the courts, would likely … Read more
The Endgame in the Battle Over Abortion
Yet despite Republicans’ efforts to distance themselves from the Alabama court’s ruling, it is the logical outcome of a strain of legal reasoning that began more 50 years ago. In fact, the Alabama ruling provides a roadmap for where the anti-abortion movement is now headed. That destination is enshrining “fetal personhood” as the law of … Read more
How rightwing groups used junk science to get an abortion case before the US supreme court
Adkins’ concerns go to the heart of a problem that has bedeviled scientists for at least a decade: the judicial system’s repeated adoption of poor-quality evidence to justify litigation and legislation to restrict abortion. Often that evidence is produced by the anti-abortion movement itself. Read more at The Guardian
Why the rift between anti-abortion activists and Republican lawmakers is growing
The backlash from anti-abortion groups, many of which are hostile to IVF, represents a persistent problem for Republicans in the post-Roe era. The party, once united under the simple goal of repealing Roe v Wade, cannot figure out how to advance the anti-abortion movement’s most hardline policy goals without alienating large swaths of US voters. … Read more
The People Rooting for the End of IVF
In his ideal world, the anti-abortion movement would make ending IVF its new goal—the next frontier in a post-Roe society. The problem, of course, is that crossing that frontier will be bumpy, to say the least. IVF is extremely popular, and banning it is not—something President Joe Biden made a point of highlighting in his … Read more
‘License to kill’: Anti-abortion groups rage against the GOP
The anti-abortion movement is turning on Republican lawmakers who support bills to protect in vitro fertilization, accusing them of sanctioning murder. Read more at Politico