Republicans Start The Year By Trying To Restrict Abortion — Again
Both bills are full of anti-choice rhetoric and misinformation that Republicans have used time and time again to quietly roll back the rights of pregnant people. Read more at HuffPost
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Exasperated Republicans frustrated with lack of anti-abortion provisions in budget talks
The state of play is vexing Congress’ anti-abortion stalwarts and influential outside groups, many of whom Johnson is set to face Friday as he addresses the March for Life rally in Washington. Read more at Politico
Dark money is flowing to groups trying to limit medication abortion. Leonard Leo is again at the center.
Central to the effort to block use of the drug is conservative legal activist Leonard Leo, who has played a well-known role shaping the current judiciary via the Federalist Society and advising former President Donald Trump on Supreme Court picks. Less examined is the vast web of entities linked to Leo that work to promote … Read more
‘A generational struggle’: abortion rights pioneer offers insights to the post-Roe US
“This is a generational struggle,” said Hoffman, echoing the central point in her recent book Choices: A Post-Roe Abortion Rights Manifesto. “This is going to pass from me to the next generation to the next generation. “The opposition is extremely, extremely … relentless. They’re persistent, they’re creative – and they won’t stop until there is … Read more
Texas Becomes an Abortion Dystopia
The Texas Supreme Court unanimously sided with Paxton. With no doctors in Texas willing to chance prosecution, Cox was forced to leave the state to avoid risking her life and ability to have another child. Having done so, her family now faces the legal risk that someone will seek to take advantage of Texas’s bounty … Read more
Conservatives move to keep abortion off the 2024 ballot
“We don’t believe those rights should be subjected to majority vote.” Read more at Politico
GOP Senate candidates soften their abortion stances amid a post-Roe losing streak
In key 2024 battleground states, some Republican Senate hopefuls have quietly shifted elements of their abortion positions. Read more at NBC News
The Dirty Tricks the GOP Is Using to Keep Abortion Off the Ballot in 2024
“The organized opposition is more aggressive than I’ve encountered in any of these fights in the past,” says Adam Weiland, who has worked on various ballot measures in the state for years. “It’s the first time I’ve ever encountered people who don’t even want you to get on the ballot and let the voters vote. … Read more
Ohio voters just passed abortion rights protections. When and how they take effect is before the courts
But the amendment voters approved Nov. 7 did not repeal any existing laws in Ohio, prompting some antiabortion activists to step up pressure on elected Republican officials to extend their efforts to halt, delay or significantly water it down. Read more at the Los Angeles Times
House speaker Mike Johnson likened abortion to ‘American holocaust’
“The reality is that Planned Parenthood and all these … big abortion … they set up their clinics in inner cities,” Johnson told a radio show in May 2022, in comments aired by CNN on Tuesday. “They regard these people as easy prey.” Read more at The Guardian