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A Convenient Piece of Junk Science

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The report that Kennedy cited was posted late last month to the website of the Ethics and Public Policy Center, a Washington, D.C.–based think tank focused on “pushing back against the extreme progressive agenda while building a consensus for conservatives,” according to its website. The study’s authors, Jamie Bryan Hall, EPPC’s director of data analysis, … Read more

RFK Jr. is laundering Christian right views as MAHA – opinion

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Tucker Carlson is a good barometer of this. The internet show he started after he was fired from Fox News has an overtly Christian nationalist lean. He had Means on in September to spread lies meant to scare women out of using hormonal birth control. After Carlson falsely presented it as forbidden information with “you … Read more

RFK Jr. orders review of mifepristone, abortion opponents want a ban

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RFK Jr orders mifepristone review as anti-abortion groups push for ban Kirsten Moore, director of the Expanding Medication Abortion Access Project, told the Guardian she was not surprised by either the existence of a plan to restrict the drugs or that the push is based on what she called “manufactured misinformation”. Moore said that reproductive … Read more

Louisiana investigates New York doctor for allegedly mailing abortion pills

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Louisiana is investigating a New York doctor over accusations that she mailed abortion pills into the state, Liz Murrill, the state attorney general, said on Monday. The case marks the second investigation into the doctor, Margaret Carpenter, whom Louisiana had indicted earlier this year for allegedly prescribing abortions pills via telehealth to a Louisiana resident. … Read more

‘Rolling Thunder’: Inside conservatives’ strategy to curb abortion pill access

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Brittni Frederiksen, the associate director for Women’s Health Policy at the nonpartisan health care think tank KFF, is among those skeptical of the groups’ findings. She highlighted, for instance, that the report lists ectopic pregnancies — when an embryo implants outside the uterus — as an “adverse event” from the pills when the pills do … Read more

Missouri’s voters restored abortion rights. Their leaders are trying to overrule them.

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Abortion opponents have sought before to connect abortion rights to gender-affirming care, including in the November election in Missouri. But this would be the first time a state attempted to outlaw both abortion and gender-affirming care in one constitutional amendment, at a moment when Republicans across the country, including President Donald Trump, have focused their … Read more

Arrested at gunpoint, charged as a felon: a midwife’s lot in anti-abortion Texas

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Some observers believe that the timing of all this is also strategic. Abortion activist Jessica Valenti (who used to write this newsletter and now writes Abortion, Every Day) has noted that Rojas was arrested weeks ago. Why did Paxton wait until now to send out a press release? Valenti reckons he is trying to distract … Read more

A new Texas bill is coming after online abortion pills

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If passed and signed into law, the measure would introduce civil liabilities for distributors of abortion pills and create a civil liability for “the wrongful death of an unborn child” as a result of taking the medications — and empower the “biological father of the unborn child” to file those civil lawsuits. It would also … Read more