Trump and the GOP support the dangerous Project 2025 – news round-up

“Coast-to-coast abortion desert”: Experts slam media for claiming GOP “softened” abortion platform As for increasing access to birth control: No one, least of all a member of a GOP platform committee, actually thinks the Republican Party will do anything to promote the use of condoms or other forms of contraception. The Heritage Foundation, the hard-right … Read more

Pregnancy in America is starting to feel like a crime

Terrified you might be losing your pregnancy, you rush to the emergency room — only to be told that no one there will care for you, because they’re worried they could be accused of participating in an abortion. The staff tells you to drive to another hospital, but that will take hours, by which time, … Read more

Trump appears to be fine with states monitoring pregnant women

Harris and Biden both blame Trump on abortion. How they do it is very different. In a Time Magazine cover story that ran Tuesday, however, Trump indicated that if elected president he wouldn’t get in the way of states’ monitoring women’s pregnancies and wouldn’t commit to vetoing a federal abortion restriction. Harris seized on the … Read more

Trump: monitoring pregnancies, prosecuting Biden, and deploying the military against immigrants

Trump: It’s up to states to monitor pregnancies, prosecute abortions Former President Trump in a new interview suggested states with restrictive abortion bans might monitor women’s pregnancies and should be left to decide whether to prosecute women for having the procedure. Read more at The Hill Trump on political violence in 2024: ‘If we don’t … Read more