“There’s nobody opposing this other than Speaker Johnson and his religious views,” Duckworth told CNN. “The president of the United States promised on the campaign trail to make IVF available to all Americans,” she added. “And I can’t think of a better place to make it available than the men and women who wear the … Read more
Calls for disenfranchisement rest on a single assumption: that women’s citizenship is partial and conditional Read more at The Guardian
The administration’s charged rhetoric comes as Trump seeks to establish his bona fides with the pronatalist movement, which supports policies that would boost the U.S. birth rate and has ties to Christian nationalist and conservative Catholic communities. This month he announced steps that he said would make fertility care more affordable. Dr. Mehmet Oz, who … Read more
Just like the right to a legal abortion, they’ll chip away at it gradually with bills that disenfranchise the “wrong” sort of people and mechanisms that make voting more difficult. But we should not mistake their ultimate objective. Musk, Thiel and Hegseth are some of the most powerful people in the world: when they, along … Read more
The discussion of 19th Amendment rights was part of a news segment focused on Doug Wilson — a self-proclaimed Christian nationalist pastor based in Idaho — that was reposted to X by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth. The secretary is among Wilson’s supporters, and his involvement with Wilson’s denomination highlights how a fringe conservative evangelical Christian … Read more
But it’s not quite right to attribute this to hypocrisy. Johnson’s behavior is perfectly consistent with the renewed Republican enthusiasm for pushing women out of public life and back into the kitchen. As David Graham at the Atlantic wrote in a recent article on how Republicans are implementing Project 2025, the party under Trump has … Read more
Conservative women believe complicity will save them. But an emboldened far-right is gunning for their rights Read more at Salon
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
There are several ways Trump could further limit abortion access without breaking his campaign promise not to implement a national ban, experts said. Read more at NBC News
And in terms of what we’re doing here, they want to abolish all health care for women, to take us back beyond earlier than the Dark Ages. And I think that these people are living in the dark ages. There were citations in the Dobbs decision going back to the 17th Century of some guy … Read more
