The bill would require an individual to present in person a passport, birth certificate or other citizenship document when registering to vote or updating their voter registration information. Such a requirement could pose barriers for large swaths of Americans: More than 9 percent of citizens of voting age — or 21.3 million people — do … Read more
If Bondi bites, as legal experts Imani Gandy and Jessica Mason Pieklo explained at Rewire News, that opens the door for a broad Christian nationalist agenda outlined in Project 2025 to terrorize people for providing birth control, sex toys, or even sex education materials. The document argues that prosecutors can revive the Comstock Act, a … Read more
Abortion access is one area where Trump and the project could differ, though Trump’s plans for abortion have been muddled. The project wants to end federal approval of abortion pills, track abortion data and root out anything that is seen as promoting abortion as healthcare. It doesn’t call for a direct ban on the procedure, … Read more
Nobody sums up how we got here better than Donald Trump. In his own words: “For 54 years, they were trying to get Roe v. Wade terminated, and I did it, and I’m proud to have done it.” If he is elected president again, make no mistake: He will sign a national abortion ban. And … Read more
“Abortion rights are broadly popular all across the country, even in red states,” said Matthew Harris, an associate professor of political science at Park University, just outside Kansas City. “If you’re going to lose on the substance of that issue, you sort of have to try to make it about something else.” Read more at … Read more
A groundbreaking new study finds that Roe v. Wade’s overturn upended relationships, family planning and the mental health of queer women and nonbinary people across the country. Read more at 19th News
Mitchell declined to comment for this article. But his work on the Silva case and the bounty law, among other matters, reflects a tactic that conservatives have recently embraced in a range of social battles, including those over abortion, LGBTQ issues, and school curricula. Across the nation, Republican-controlled state legislatures and conservative activists have passed … Read more
As such, Project 2025 has language in it that subtly lays the groundwork for an eventual ban on nearly all forms of female-controlled contraception. As Reproductive Freedom for All pointed out in a campaign memo, “Project 2025 includes personhood language and policies that propagate the belief that life begins at conception.” The same people perpetuate … Read more
In additional resurfaced clips, Vance has said that people without children should pay higher taxes, and that people with children should be given more voting power than those without children. Read more at The Guardian
Almost two-thirds of Americans say abortion should be legal in most cases, but almost zero percent of people at the Heritage Foundation seem to believe the same. The much-publicized Project 2025—a governmental blueprint drawn up by the powerful think tank that got regular name-checks yesterday—asserts that abortion is “not health care.” (The document mentions abortion … Read more
