The Indiana physician who provided abortion services to a 10-year-old rape victim from Ohio is suing Indiana Attorney General Todd Rokita, alleging the attorney general engaged in an “abuse of power” by opening a meritless investigation into her, according to a complaint filed Thursday. Dr. Caitlin Bernard, was placed under …
Read More »Woman (A Different One) Says Herschel Walker Drove Her to Get an Abortion
Herschel Walker drove a woman to get an abortion in 1993, the woman, identified only as Jane Doe, claimed in a press conference on Wednesday with high-powered lawyer Gloria Allred. “Herschel Walker is a hypocrite, and he is not fit to be a U.S. senator,” the woman said, noting that …
Read More »The Architect of Kansas' Abortion Win Is Taking on Kentucky's Ban
Except for what she describes as two “tours” of Washington D.C. — the first as an intern-turned-staffer in Mitch McConnell’s Senate office, and later as a political appointee to George W. Bush’s USDA — Dawn Riley has spent her entire life in Kentucky. She has also always been pro-choice: in …
Read More »GOP Logic: Candidate Promises 'True Choices' for Women, Then Pledges to Uphold Near-Total Abortion Ban
Kari Lake, the GOP nominee running for Arizona governor, said she wants to give women “true choices” when it comes to abortion — right before she pledged to uphold an abortion ban in the state. “We need to draw the line somewhere,” the candidate said during an appearance on CBS’s …
Read More »In Post-Roe Alabama, the Poor Suffer Most
The West Alabama Women’s Center in Tuscaloosa, Ala., serves people from all over the mid-South (and, sometimes, beyond). One Alabama patient, Tamika (not her real name), came through the clinic in 2021 with a story that illustrates the wide spectrum of challenges facing Black women who live in states that …
Read More »Herschel Walker Asked Girlfriend to Have a Second Abortion: Report
The woman who accused Herschel Walker of paying for her abortion in 2009 is now revealing that the Republican senate candidate from Georgia urged her to have a second one. On Friday, Walker’s ex-girlfriend told New York Times that Walker asked her to terminate her pregnancy in 2011, but she …
Read More »Woman Who Claims Herschel Walker Paid for Abortion Says She Also Had His Child
Herschel Walker, who has vehementlyopposed reproductive rightsthroughout his senatorial campaign in Georgia, denied he had paid for a woman’s abortion in 2009 and also denied he knew who she was. Thing is, she apparently shares a child with him, according to The Daily Beast who first broke the story on …
Read More »Newt Gingrich Defends Herschel Walker: 'He Had a Lot of Concussions'
Herschel Walker has based his Senate campaign around his faith, which includes a belief that abortion is tantamount to murder. It didn’t bode well, then, when The Daily Beast reported on Monday that the Trump-endorsed football star paid for an ex-girlfriend’s abortion. Walker denied the allegation, but his team walked …
Read More »'Everything Has Been a Lie': Herschel Walker's Son Unloads on Dad After Abortion Payment Report
Herschel Walker’s beleaguered campaign for Senate received yet another blow on Monday at the hands of his own son, Christian Walker, a well-known conservative influencer. The younger Walker had some choice words for his father following a report from The Daily Beast alleging that Herschel Walker, who has adamantly opposed …
Read More »'It Scares the Hell Out of People': Dems Are Searching for Signs Abortion Will Save Them on Election Day
When Dr. Jessica Klemens thinks about the stakes of this year’s election in Pennsylvania, she imagines being summoned to the emergency room at the hospital where she works in Montgomery County and being presented with a patient bleeding heavily from the beginnings of a miscarriage. “If I go down there, …
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