Millions of US women don’t have access to maternity care, report warns More than a third of US counties do not have a single medical birthing facility or the services of an obstetric clinician, causing health advocates to warn about the dangers of “maternity care deserts”, a new report says. Read more at The Guardian … Read more
Vance, meanwhile, has opposed abortion even in the case of rape and incest: “It’s not whether a woman should be forced to bring a child to term,” he said in a 2021 interview. “It’s whether a child should be allowed to live — even though the circumstances of that child’s birth are somehow inconvenient to … Read more
Two residents of Lee County said they were questioned at their homes about the validity of petition signatures Read more at Tampa Bay Times
Robinson replied by saying, “That 12 weeks, exceptions for rape and incest … I’m not going to say it’s reasonable. But my faith allows me to live with that, because that’s where the consensus is. Do I want to continue to lower it? You better know it. I would love to get down to six … Read more
In a 2021 thread on X, Vance called universal childcare a “a massive subsidy to the lifestyle preferences of the affluent over the preferences of the middle and working class”. Vance characterized universal day care as “class warfare against normal people”. He also claimed in a 2021 podcast interview that professional women “choose a path … Read more
Florida voters who signed a petition to place a pro-choice abortion referendum on the ballot this November say they have been visited by police who are investigating claims of fraud at the behest of Gov. Ron DeSantis’ administration, the Tampa Bay Times reported Saturday. Read more at Salon
According to US census projections, people of color are on par to be the majority by the middle of the century. With this imminent reality, the focus on controlling our fertility and denying us bodily autonomy is the age-old strategy of authoritarian, democracy-denying regimes. And to have a conservative-leaning supreme court that has proved that … Read more
Texas is suing to try to block a federal rule that shields the medical records of women from criminal investigations if they cross state lines to get an abortion where it is legal Read more at ABC News
It is the latest example of Florida Republicans using the mechanics of government to try to styme the initiative. Read more at Politico
There’s been a drumbeat of stories of him endorsing views like hunger is a “great motivation” to work, the “whole purpose of the postmenopausal female” is to provide free childcare, and that progressives are “unhumans” who deserve fascist violence. The seemingly endless number of clips of him condemning childless women as “sociopaths” and “miserable cat ladies” … Read more
