Amid all the news coverage of the GOP’s spending-bill extravaganza— ……. —one piece of the package has received comparatively little attention: a provision that would block abortion clinics from receiving Medicaid funds for any of the non-abortion services they provide. But if this proposed provision passes, clinics all over the country will be affected. It … Read more
Michigan Rep. Karl Bohnak (R-Deerton) has finally said what so many members of the GOP are too scared to say outright: they don’t support women’s bodily autonomy. Read more at Jezebel
Minnesota Shooter Allegedly Targeted Abortion Clinics At Time Of Threats, Lax Protections Last week, Republicans on the House Judiciary Committee voted to advance Rep. Chip Roy’s (R-TX) FACE Repeal Act, which would repeal “provisions of federal criminal law that prohibit conduct intended to injure, intimidate, or interfere with persons who are seeking to (1) obtain … Read more
“This action sends a clear message: the lives and health of pregnant people are not worth protecting,” Dr Jamila Perritt, an OB-GYN and the president of Physicians for Reproductive Health, said in a statement. “Complying with this law can mean the difference between life and death for pregnant people, forcing providers like me to choose … Read more
The GOP megabill, which blocks Planned Parenthood from being reimbursed with Medicaid dollars, among other Medicaid cuts, is awaiting its fate in the Senate this week. For now, Title X funding is frozen for Planned Parenthoods in 20 states. If the “Big Beautiful Bill” passes, another 200 of the roughly 600 Planned Parenthoods will be … Read more
But a new policy the Trump administration announced Tuesday has thrown into doubt the federal government’s stance on hospitals’ denying women emergency abortions, even when they are at risk for serious infection, organ loss or severe hemorrhaging. Read more at NBC News
Winsome Earle-Sears called abortion ‘genocide’ and implied equivalence between consenting to sex and consenting to pregnancy Read more at The Guardian
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
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
Republican legislators approve ballot item that would again ban most abortions in Missouri Senate Minority Leader Doug Beck, D-St. Louis County, said Republicans were thumbing their noses at voters. “They again turned down the will of the Missouri voters, the will of the people, of what they wanted,” Beck said. Read more at St. Louis … Read more
