As part of Olivia Rodrigo’s partnership with the National Network of Abortion Funds, the singer’s St. Louis show on Tuesday featured the dispersion of free condoms and emergency contraceptive pills to concertgoers in Missouri, a state where abortion rights are currently under attack following the repeal of Roe vs. Wade. …
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Late last week, the New York Times reported that Donald Trump privately told his allies he backs a 16-week national abortion ban with some exceptions. Inside the Trump campaign, the news was immediately met with deep annoyance, anger, and a scramble for damage control, two people familiar with the matter …
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Kate Cox, the Texas mother who sought permission to obtain an abortion, has been forced to flee the state to get medical care, her lawyers said on Monday. “This past week of legal limbo has been hellish for Kate,” said Nancy Northup, president and CEO at the Center for Reproductive …
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Tiffany Campbell used to describe herself as a “hardcore, church-going Republican.” That changed back in 2006, when she was still running an in-home daycare in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, and learned she was pregnant with twins. The prognosis was dire: one twin’s heart was pumping blood for both of them …
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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 …
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Interstate 20, one of the nation’s major highways, stretches like a constellation across the South, connecting the cities of Columbia, Atlanta, Birmingham, Jackson, Shreveport, and Dallas-Fort Worth, before ending in a fork with Interstate 10 in West Texas, en route to New Mexico. On its way through Texas, I-20 cuts …
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On Friday morning, the Florida Supreme Court heard arguments in a case with enormous implications for women not only in the state of Florida, but across the entire South. Justices considered whether the state’s current law, which prohibits abortions after 15 weeks, violates Florida’s constitution—specifically the right to privacy it …
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There are more than 250 district attorneys in the state of Texas, but only five of them agreed to sign a letter last year declaring their offices would not prosecute individuals who sought abortions. On Friday, the stakes go up for those bold enough to speak out against legislation they …
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A federal appeals court has upheld some restrictions on access to the abortion medication mifepristone, while still allowing it to remain available, CNN reports. The government and mifepristone’s manufacturer will likely appeal the ruling, setting up another major abortion rights showdown in the Supreme Court following its decision to overturn …
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Ohio residents on Tuesday overwhelmingly rejected a GOP effort that would have made it more difficult to change the state’s constitution. The hastily-called special election took place ahead of a November vote on whether to enshrine the right to abortion in the state’s constitution. Abortion is currently legal up to …
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