A year after victory in Dobbs decision, anti-abortion activists still in fight mode

To put a stop to this, Pavone — a controversial figure who leads the Florida-based Priests for Life — wants Congress to pass a federal ban. But he’s concerned that even the anti-abortion lawmakers in Congress appear reluctant to act. He suspects they are afraid of such a polarizing issue, so they are letting states … Read more

Billionaire-funded group driving effort to erode democracy in key US states

The Foundation for Government Accountability, a Florida-based group affiliated with the alliance of conservative thinktanks called the State Policy Network, has played a key role in recent efforts to raise the threshold for passing citizen ballot initiatives from a simple majority to a supermajority, and to make it harder to place measures on the ballot … Read more

Targeting abortion access, Ohio Republicans are trying to make it harder to amend the state’s constitution

“It’s misleading, it’s deceptive, and if it weren’t so serious, it would be laughable,” O’Connor said in an interview that the process Ohio uses to allow citizens to amend its constitution has been in place since 1912. “When you keep changing the rules and moving the goalposts, you are intentionally silencing the vote of the … Read more

One year without Roe: Data shows how abortion access has changed

For women and their families, abortion access is now largely a function of financial and geographic circumstances. For abortion-care providers, the year has brought influxes of out-of-state patients and a barrage of legal challenges. Abortion opponents, meanwhile, are enjoying their success. Some say they hope to see national restrictions. Read more at NBC News  

GOP politicians try to avoid publicizing their extreme messages on abortion

Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley downplays federal abortion ban Despite her hardline position, the Republican presidential candidate is now attempting to soften that image by detaching herself from talk of a federal ban. The disappointing result of the party in last November’s midterm elections was widely attributed to Republican messaging on abortion, which stands starkly … Read more

69 Republicans ask appeals court to allow ban on abortion pill to go forward

A group of 69 Republican members of Congress filed a brief urging an appeals court to uphold the decision of a federal judge in Texas last week that would halt the prescription of a widely used abortion pill, after over 200 congressional Democrats lobbied for a reversal of the ruling. Read more at The Hill

Mike Pence Cheers Abortion Pill Ruling In Texas

Pence, whose abortion views are informed by his religious faith, doubled down in the wake of Roe v. Wade’s reversal, saying “we must not rest” until abortion is outlawed entirely across the country. The former vice president has urged other Republicans to stake out similarly extreme positions on banning abortion access. Read more at Huffpost … Read more

US District Judge Matthew Kacmaryk’s ruling halting use of mifepristone – round-up

Judge’s abortion pill decision embraces extreme language and ideology of anti-abortion movement, experts say In interviews, several legal and medical experts said Kacsmaryk’s decision was unprecedented and clearly ideological. His language and reasoning, they said, closely mirrored arguments and concepts put forward by the anti-abortion movement — at the expense of scientific consensus in some … Read more

Abortion Opponents’ Next Push

I called Ziegler today, after the Justice Department’s appeal, to get her take on what happens next. She told me that if the conflicting mifepristone rulings make their way to the Supreme Court, which they’re likely to do, it’s worth noting that the Texas decision that would block the abortion medication was “designed to appeal … Read more