Beyoncé and Michelle Obama speak on behalf of Harris, and make stark warnings about the threats to reproductive rights and health from Trump

Beyoncé brings star power to Harris rally in Texas with abortion law in the spotlight Ondrea Cummings, a Texas woman who appeared in a new Harris campaign, became emotional as she shared her harrowing experience after a miscarriage at 16 weeks and needing an emergency abortion that she was denied under the state’s law. A … Read more

“I cannot vote for someone like that”: Ohio women voters fume at Bernie Moreno’s abortion “joke”

“While Sherrod stands with the majority of Ohioans who believe that a woman has the right to make her own health care decisions, Moreno has made it clear he thinks he knows better,” campaign spokesperson Maggie Amjad told Salon in a statement. “Moreno went so far as to mock Ohio women for caring about this … Read more

Life-threatening crises, frantic calls: Idaho offers glimpse of what abortion could look like under Trump

Some anti-abortion activists believe the Comstock Act can do even more: if enacted to its fullest extent, it could not only ban pills but the very equipment that clinics need to do their jobs. Without ever involving Congress, Trump could use the Comstock Act to implement a nationwide de facto abortion ban. And if he … Read more

Abortion Pills Have Changed the Post-Roe Calculus

Anti-abortion groups could also test the limits of shield laws in more indirect ways. In Texas, says John Seago, the president of Texas Right to Life, pro-abortion groups have put up billboards advertising abortion pills: “You can go to people putting up the billboard. That’s aiding and abetting.” His group has also encouraged Texas lawmakers … Read more

Republicans are using old talking points to demonize abortion — but are they landing?

Confronted with polling that shows access to abortion remains a key issue for voters, anti-abortion activists and GOP leaders are making a final pre-Election Day push to paint Democratic nominee Kamala Harris as an extremist on the issue, and abortion as unsafe. and “Strategically, they’re going in two directions,” said Greer Donley, a law professor … Read more

He’s been flying people to access reproductive care. Here’s how he’s preparing for the election.

Bonanza isn’t quite sure what will happen to Elevated Access in the longshot event of a national ban. While the organization currently enlists its volunteer pilots and other allies through aviation conferences and media coverage, their efforts have remained domestic. He insists that if abortion is somehow outlawed nationally or otherwise restricted, his group will … Read more

Trump and Vance Are Calling Their Abortion Ban Something New

Trump, and the conservative-activist elite that Vance hails from, have a clear plan for limiting women’s access to abortion should they win in November. This could take the form of a congressionally authorized ban if Republicans have a big enough majority, which Trump and Vance would simply refer to as a “minimum national standard.” Or … Read more

Vance backtracks on whether Trump would veto national abortion ban

When pressed on if Trump would veto a national abortion if brought to his desk as president, Vance wouldn’t commit to an answer. Instead, Vance said Sunday that Trump “thinks it’s ridiculous to talk about vetoing a piece of legislation that isn’t going to come before the president in the first place.” Read more at … Read more

“Deadly”: Experts warn Trump and Vance are “backpedaling” on abortion to conceal a darker reality

In August, Amber Thurman, a Georgia woman who suffered a rare complication from abortion pills, died from an infection after Georgia passed a law banning the abortion treatment that would have saved her life. Earlier this summer, Texas woman Kate Cox, whose fetus’ lethal anomaly doctors said threatened her health and future fertility, left the … Read more

JD Vance won the VP debate with lies. Here’s the truth, in his own words

At his core, if Vance has one, there is a Christian nationalism that seems to embrace Trump as a means to an end. This is what really concerns me about Vance, not that he believes in nothing, but that he believes in a country run on Christianity above law. Read more at the LA Times … Read more