Trump drops IVF promise, preferring to blame women for infertility
Instead of treatment, Project 2025 proposes shaming patients for premarital sex Read more at Salon
Christian worldview
IVF is life-changing for infertile families. But the Christian right says it’s not in ‘God’s plan’
By casting excess embryos as ‘little frozen orphans’ that needed to be ‘saved’ these programs push an alarming view of personhood Read more at The Guardian
Republicans are raiding childcare funding — to push women out of the workforce – opinion
The New York Times reported this week that the White House is now not only looking for ways to make more women have children, but to encourage “parents” to stay home to raise them. “Parents” here is a euphemism. Roughly 80% of stay-at-home parents are mothers: cultural traditions that encourage women, and not men, to … Read more
RFK Jr. is laundering Christian right views as MAHA – opinion
Tucker Carlson is a good barometer of this. The internet show he started after he was fired from Fox News has an overtly Christian nationalist lean. He had Means on in September to spread lies meant to scare women out of using hormonal birth control. After Carlson falsely presented it as forbidden information with “you … Read more
‘Rolling Thunder’: Inside conservatives’ strategy to curb abortion pill access
Brittni Frederiksen, the associate director for Women’s Health Policy at the nonpartisan health care think tank KFF, is among those skeptical of the groups’ findings. She highlighted, for instance, that the report lists ectopic pregnancies — when an embryo implants outside the uterus — as an “adverse event” from the pills when the pills do … Read more
Mike Johnson melts down after House proxy vote failure exposes MAGA’s “pro-family” lie
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
Crisis pregnancy center’s forms give rare insight into anti-abortion practices
The free organizations offer counseling while trying to dissuade women from having an abortion. They promise to protect health data but aren’t bound by federal privacy law. Read more at NBC News
Kamala Harris is wise to target JD “Cat Lady” Vance — the GOP’s “incel platform” repels voters
Vance was propped up financially and politically by tech investor Peter Thiel, who has questioned whether women should have the right to vote. Thiel has also backed pseudo-intellectual Curtis Yarvin, who Vance has quoted, and who called slavery a “natural human relationship” akin to “that of patron and client.” Vance himself has floated proposals to … Read more
Kentucky judge throws out Jewish mothers’ lawsuit challenging the state’s abortion ban
On Friday evening, Jefferson County Circuit Judge Brian Edwards said the group of women lacked standing to bring the case and sided with the state’s attorney general, who defended the state’s abortion laws. Read more at National Public Radio, Inc.
After Supreme Court’s abortion pill decision, Donald Trump is even more likely to ban abortion
Nor is the Republican radicalism on this issue limited to abortion. Earlier this month, all but two Republican senators voted down a bill that would protect the right to contraception from being overturned by the Supreme Court, as Thomas has strongly hinted is a future possibility. …. And despite disingenuous claims to support reproductive technologies … Read more