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GOP – Page 4 – No Rights To Speak Of

Missouri GOP already trying to roll back abortion rights passed by voters

Missouri abortion rights in legal limbo after constitutional protections take effect The day after Missouri voters supported the measure to amend the constitution, Planned Parenthood affiliates in the state filed a lawsuit asking the court to strike down the state’s near-total abortion ban as well as a raft of other restrictions that, Planned Parenthood said, … Read more

Conservatives Want to End ‘Exceptions’ for Women’s Lives

The short version is that they’ve been strategically redefining ‘abortion’ across law, culture and medicine, while pushing the false claim that abortion is never necessary to save a person’s life. The end game is legislation that bans abortion in all cases, mandating that doctors only end life-threatening pregnancies using c-sections or induced vaginal birth, no … Read more

Anti-Abortion groups and RFK Jr.

Anti-abortion groups have 2 asks. RFK Jr. is listening. Abortion opponents — concerned about Kennedy’s past comments supporting abortion access — have two major asks: that he appoint an anti-abortion stalwart to a senior position in HHS and that he promise privately to them and publicly during his confirmation hearing to restore anti-abortion policies from … Read more

Missouri voted for an abortion rights amendment — and the Republicans who vow to overturn it

Yet now abortion has been enshrined in the Missouri Constitution, and a litany of Republican officials are calling for lawmakers to put another constitutional amendment on the ballot rolling back those rights. “For years,” Harris said, “we’ve been discussing making it more difficult to put something in the state constitution. That’s something that Republicans need … Read more

“A wounding disappointment”: Why Kamala Harris’ defeat cuts so deep for women

I can’t agree to disagree about doctors refusing medical attention for ectopic pregnancies, and women being arrested for their miscarriages. Have you ever had a miscarriage? I have. It’s physically and emotionally devastating enough without the fear that you and your healthcare provider may be questioned, scrutinized, penalized, that you may have your life endangered, … Read more

Americans stockpile abortion pills and hormones ahead of ‘reproductive apocalypse’ under Trump

The panic didn’t just extend to abortion pills. The online women’s health provider Wisp told the Guardian it had already tripled its usual daily sales of emergency contraception by 11.30am on Wednesday. It also saw a huge increase in orders of bulk Plan B packs, which went from about 30% of their emergency contraceptive orders … Read more

Trump’s return to White House means abortion rights face new chapter of peril

Project 2025, which was primarily crafted by the influential thinktank the Heritage Foundation but backed by more than 100 conservative groups, includes a laundry list of anti-abortion policies. It suggests rolling back the FDA’s approval of abortion pills, increasing CDC “surveillance” of abortion and pregnancy loss to police ban violations, and stripping federal funding from … Read more

Cecile Richards’ Open Letter to Women: ‘Kamala Harris Gets It’

Nobody sums up how we got here better than Donald Trump. In his own words: “For 54 years, they were trying to get Roe v. Wade terminated, and I did it, and I’m proud to have done it.” If he is elected president again, make no mistake: He will sign a national abortion ban. And … Read more

‘Sounding alarm for 10 years’: Mississippi residents warn of Project 2025 ramifications

In several states across the country, there are already extreme abortion bans that have led to the deaths of multiple pregnant women and at least one teen; restrictive voting policies that make it difficult for citizens to cast their ballots; defunding of education and censorship of books; and other such policies that have also been … Read more