The GOP’s assault on reproductive rights isn’t too popular — not even in Alabama. Democrat Marilyn Lands won a special election for a state House seat on Tuesday, flipping a district that a Republican had previously controlled. Lands ran largely on reproductive rights, particularly as a proponent of in vitro …
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Justices Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas are just asking questions about the Comstock Act, a 150-year-old obscenity law that anti-abortion activists believe could be revived as a national abortion ban. The Supreme Court heard arguments on Tuesday in Food and Drug Administration v. Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine, a case that …
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Faye Webster, the War on Drugs, and David Byrne and Devo have contributed tracks to the second Noise for Now benefit compilation, which will raise money for independent abortion providers across the country via the Keep Our Clinics campaign. The album announcement pointedly coincides with the return of abortion rights …
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On Wednesday, Arizona State Senator Eva Burch had an abortion. Deciding to terminate a pregnancy is a highly personal decision, one that usually takes place quietly, with the involvement of the patient, their medical providers, a cadre of loved ones, and — to the bewilderment and frustration of those seeking …
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One of the GOP’s most vulnerable incumbent lawmakers, Don Bacon, is feeling the heat on abortion. In recent days, the Republican congressman from Nebraska quietly deleted the section on his campaign website touting a promise that he “will always fight to defend the right to life.” The section that disappeared …
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A caucus representing most House Republican lawmakers endorsed a 15-week national abortion ban on Wednesday.The announcement came one day after former President Donald Trump indicated that he could support a 15-week abortion ban. The Republican Study Committee (RSC), which includes nearly 80 percent of all House Republicans, released its 2025 …
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When confronted about describing immigrants with terms like “vermin” and “poisoning the blood” favored by Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini, former president Donald Trump not only defended using Nazi rhetoric but repeated it: “I didn’t know that, but that’s what they say. Because our country is being poisoned.” Trump made …
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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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Joe Biden delivered a fiery State of the Union address Thursday night, made the case for American democracy, reproductive freedom, funding for Ukraine, a fair tax code, and lowering prescription drug prices. He also repeatedly underscored the threat of Donald Trump — whom he referred to only as “my predecessor.” …
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After it was reported that Trump intends to support a nationalabortionban, the Republican primary frontrunner floated the idea of a 15-week ban during a Fox News interview at the U.S.-Mexico border in Texas on Thursday. When discussing support for in vitro fertilization (which GOP lawmakers claimed to support, then blocked …
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