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Republicans are raiding childcare funding — to push women out of the workforce – opinion

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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

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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

Missouri Republicans aim to repeal new amendment that protects abortion

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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

House panel advances measure to cut off Planned Parenthood from Medicaid funds

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A key House panel on Wednesday advanced legislation that includes a provision aimed at cutting off Medicaid funding from Planned Parenthood, a longtime goal of congressional Republicans. …. “Make no mistake, Planned Parenthood is being targeted,” Alexis McGill Johnson, the president and CEO of Planned Parenthood, said at the news conference. “Just like any other … Read more

‘Rolling Thunder’: Inside conservatives’ strategy to curb abortion pill access

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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

Missouri’s voters restored abortion rights. Their leaders are trying to overrule them.

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Abortion opponents have sought before to connect abortion rights to gender-affirming care, including in the November election in Missouri. But this would be the first time a state attempted to outlaw both abortion and gender-affirming care in one constitutional amendment, at a moment when Republicans across the country, including President Donald Trump, have focused their … Read more

Clinics begin closing as Trump admin continues freeze on family planning funds

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Dozens of medical providers from California to Maine, including nine Planned Parenthood affiliates, have struggled to stay afloat since more than $65 million dollars for the Title X family planning program was withheld on April 1 — a funding freeze the Trump administration said was aimed at enforcing executive orders on diversity and immigration. Federal … Read more

Mike Johnson melts down after House proxy vote failure exposes MAGA’s “pro-family” lie

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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