“We’ve been preparing for months, in some cases years,” he continued. After Roe v Wade was overturned in 2022, his staff wrote a legal brief to challenge a national abortion ban, a draft he has ready, if necessary. His staff has also monitored comments by Trump’s inner circle and reviewed Project 2025, the rightwing blueprint … Read more
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
Thomas wrote in a separate opinion on the case that overturned Roe that the court “should reconsider all of this Court’s substantive due process precedents,” including the rulings that affirmed access to contraceptives and protected gay marriage. Read more at The Hill
Trump allies prepare to infuse ‘Christian nationalism’ in second administration It also proposes increasing surveillance of abortion and maternal mortality reporting in the states, compelling the Food and Drug Administration to revoke approval of “chemical abortion drugs” and protecting “religious and moral” objections for employers who decline contraception coverage for employees. One of the groups … Read more
Abortion rulings and anti-LGBTQ+ laws in the States moved Ottawa to alert Canadians about travel risks. Read more at Politico
WallBuilders expanded its ties with conservative state legislators by launching the “ProFamily Legislative Network” in 1998 to help push bills on abortion, LGBTQ+ rights and other hot button issues for the religious right, and host a yearly conference with legislators. Read more at The Guardian
“We think critically about who we are sending where and ask employees if they’re comfortable going to a state that has demonstrated they are not inclusive towards petrople with certain identities,” said Cierra Gross, CEO of Caged Bird HR, a consultancy firm. “We could be putting someone’s physical and psychological safety on the line in … Read more
“Dobbs doesn’t just drop into a vacuum,” said Polly Crozier, a senior staff attorney at GLBTQ Legal Advocates and Defenders, or GLAD. “Already we have seen attacks on LGBTQ families, because there have been cases in the past few years attacking nonbiological parents. We will probably see more challenges to the marital presumption of parentage … Read more
