Trump privately backs 16-week abortion ban with exceptions, report says “Know what I like about 16?” Trump told one individual, according to the Times, which based its report on two people with knowledge of Trump’s thoughts. “It’s even. It’s four months.” Read more at The Guardian Trump campaign scrambles over abortion ban report as Democrats … Read more
Dusty Deevers is a fundamentalist preacher. He’s also a state senator. And he insists he doesn’t see “any firewalls” between his two roles — as he crusades to outlaw porn, end what he decries as the “abortion holocaust,” and abolish no-fault divorce in Oklahoma. He argues that the sole purpose of government is to “promote … Read more
“They have laid out an 887-page blueprint that includes, in painstaking detail, exactly how they plan to leverage virtually every arm, tool and agency of the federal government to attack abortion access,” she said. “Trump’s close advisers have actual plans to block access to abortion in every single state without any help from Congress or … Read more
“It’s crystal clear to me that the GOP is fully committed to a nationwide abortion ban,” Rep. Pat Ryan (D-N.Y.) said in an interview. “They’re continuing to even more aggressively pursue that, literally choosing a speaker of the House that authored the bill for a nationwide abortion ban. And that would certainly affect New York.” … Read more
“If the Republicans had the House, the Senate, and the White House, if that happened, I don’t think there’s any doubt they’re going for a nationwide abortion ban,” Warren told MSNBC’s Alex Wagner during an interview this week. Read more at The Hill
Both bills are full of anti-choice rhetoric and misinformation that Republicans have used time and time again to quietly roll back the rights of pregnant people. Read more at HuffPost
The state of play is vexing Congress’ anti-abortion stalwarts and influential outside groups, many of whom Johnson is set to face Friday as he addresses the March for Life rally in Washington. Read more at Politico
Now, with the 2024 election less than a year away, what are Republicans running for higher office to do? According to GOP strategist and Donald Trump adviser Kellyanne Conway, the answer is simple: make their campaign slogan something like, “Yeah, we took away your reproductive rights, but, hey, we’re letting you keep contraception, and that’s … Read more
“Senate Republicans know that by talking about abortion, it’s bad for them,” North Carolina state Sen. Sydney Batch (D) told HuffPost in May, the day before the 12-week abortion ban passed. “This was always their plan, to run this through without any insight, in the dark of night, so that the rest of the general … Read more
In Ohio, Kansas and Michigan, for example, where abortion rights advocates won major victories in ballot measures over the past two years, anti-abortion groups and lawmakers are now turning their focus to blocking implementation of the initiatives by proposing bills and threatening lawsuits that would restrict the reproductive rights those elections protected. Read more at … Read more
