One major Republican donor is pouring millions into groups funding the anti-abortion candidates in three of those contests: Virginia, Pennsylvania, and Kentucky. He is also one of the largest personal shareholders in the viral social media network, TikTok. Read more at Rolling Stone
New House Speaker Blamed School Shootings on Teaching Evolution and Abortion Newly elected House Speaker Mike Johnson is a hardcore Christian nationalist who has a history of spouting extreme right-wing views — including on mass shootings. The Louisiana Republican’s record on guns has come under scrutiny in the wake of a shooter killing at least … Read more
Glenn Youngkin thinks he has a Republican response to Democrats’ abortion attacks The Virginia GOP is trying to flip the script on an issue that has dogged Republicans for a year and a half. So far, Republicans have been doing their best to not talk about it. But now Youngkin is going after Democrats as … Read more
At a Turning Point USA women’s summit held in June, podcast host Alex Clark encouraged women to stop taking their hormonal birth control, because, she said, “it is completely altering your personality” and that “many birth control pills are actually abortifacients.” The same month, Marjorie Taylor Greene falsely claimed that the “Plan B pill kills … Read more
If Youngkin and the GOP win control of both legislative chambers next month behind that message, other Republicans outside the core red states are virtually certain to adopt their approach to abortion. Success for the Virginia GOP could also encourage the national Republican Party to coalesce behind a 15-week federal ban with exceptions. Read more … Read more
Anti-abortion activists lost every abortion-related voter referendum last year, while ire over the fall of Roe has been credited with boosting Democrats in the 2022 midterms. Now, Republicans in the presidential primary are scrambling to figure out how to talk about and legislate abortion. But they’re regurgitating some common anti-abortion myths to make their case. … Read more
“It’s never a ‘terrible thing’ to protect innocent life,” Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds said. Read more at Politico
Last November, voters in Kentucky turned out in large numbers to reject the idea of adding an amendment outlawing abortion to the state constitution. But almost a year later abortion is still illegal in Kentucky — thanks in large part to Attorney General Daniel Cameron, who defended against a challenge to the state’s existing abortion … Read more
Tommy Tuberville aims to block policy offering aid to service members and dependents forced to travel for abortions Read more at The Guardian
At the center of the battle: a GOP provision in the agriculture funding bill to ban mail delivery of abortion pills nationwide. Divisions over the move, along with disagreement over the total spending levels, forced senior Republicans to scuttle a planned House vote on the bill that funds the USDA and Food and Drug Administration … Read more
