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The Vance Warning

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When the Trump Supreme Court struck down Roe v. Wade in 2022, it opened the door to a new regime of state-level policing and punishment of American women. After this year’s election, Republicans may or may not have the votes in Congress to pass a national abortion ban. That’s not the most important question, however. … Read more

Trump and the GOP support the dangerous Project 2025 – news round-up

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“Coast-to-coast abortion desert”: Experts slam media for claiming GOP “softened” abortion platform As for increasing access to birth control: No one, least of all a member of a GOP platform committee, actually thinks the Republican Party will do anything to promote the use of condoms or other forms of contraception. The Heritage Foundation, the hard-right … Read more

Texas’s Handmaid’s Tale gives everyone but women reproductive control (opinion)

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Even the presumptive nominee for the Republican Party, former President Donald Trump, has said that states could monitor women’s pregnancies to support abortion bans. If these efforts succeed, women may not only be second-class citizens vis-a-vis men but also vis-a-vis the fetuses and maybe even embryos. Read more at The Hill  

Trump appears to be fine with states monitoring pregnant women

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Harris and Biden both blame Trump on abortion. How they do it is very different. In a Time Magazine cover story that ran Tuesday, however, Trump indicated that if elected president he wouldn’t get in the way of states’ monitoring women’s pregnancies and wouldn’t commit to vetoing a federal abortion restriction. Harris seized on the … Read more

The criminalization of abortion and surveillance of women in a post-Dobbs world | Brookings

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Consistent with the anti-abortion movement’s goal of a nationwide recognition of fetal personhood, the criminalization of abortion is a tool for preventing abortions from ever occurring. In our new article, Bodies of Evidence: The Criminalization of Abortion and Surveillance of Women in a Post-Dobbs World, we explore: how ban states are criminalizing abortion; the way … Read more

Inside the MAGA Plan to Attack Birth Control, Surveil Women and Ban the Abortion Pill

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Those plans — and many more, including proposals to attack contraception access, use the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to increase “abortion surveillance” and data collection, rescind a Department of Defense policy to “prohibit abortion travel funding,” punish states that require health insurance plans to cover abortion, and retool a law that is currently … Read more

We’re Not Going Back to the Time Before Roe. We’re Going Somewhere Worse

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We have entered an era not of unsafe abortion but of widespread state surveillance and criminalization—of pregnant women, certainly, but also of doctors and pharmacists and clinic staffers and volunteers and friends and family members, of anyone who comes into meaningful contact with a pregnancy that does not end in a healthy birth. Those who … Read more

Harsh Anti-abortion Laws Are Not Empty Threats

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The anti-abortion movement is—no surprise—committed to stopping this flow of patients and abortion pills across state lines. One strategy that has recently emerged is an effort to revive and reinterpret the Comstock Act, a 19th-century anti-vice law that the movement claims makes sending or receiving any abortion drug or device in the mail a federal … Read more