Following the arrest of a man for allegedly raping and impregnating a 10-year-old girl, conservatives are attacking the doctor who treated her for allegedly not reporting the procedure. The Indiana Starreported on Thursday, however, that Dr. Caitlin Bernard did report the procedure. Conservatives simply didn’t bother to actually check up …
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A prominent Indiana lawyer stated that the 10-year-old Ohio girl who traveled to his state to seek an abortion should have been forced to give birth to the child. Jim Bopp, general counsel for the National Right to Life, told Politico that if it were up to him “she would …
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It used to take three days to get an appointment at the Planned Parenthood in Southern Illinois. Since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, that wait has grown to three weeks. At the same time, the clinic’s daily patient load has more than tripled. “Folks from Mississippi, Arkansas, Kansas, …
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A man in Ohio has been arrested for allegedly raping and impregnating a 10-year-old girl who was forced to travel to Indiana to get an abortion after Ohio’s restrictive abortion law went into effect following the overturning of Roe v. Wade. According to The Columbus Dispatch, the suspect was identified …
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An arrest has been made in the case of a 10-year-old girl who sought an abortion in Indiana after services were allegedly denied to her in Ohio. According to the Columbus Dispatch, Gershon Fuentes, age 27, was arrested on Tuesday. Law enforcement officials say Fuentes confessed to raping the child …
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Shannon Brewer was pulling into the parking lot at work on Thursday morning when a man jumped in front of her car. The longtime clinic director at Jackson Women’s Health Organization — known locally as the Pink House and nationally as Mississippi’s last abortion clinic, the one at the center …
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Facing mounting pressure from Democrats looking for direction in the fight to protect abortion rights following the death of Roe v. Wade, President Joe Biden on Friday morning signed an executive order to mitigate potential penalties levied against women who seek abortion services. Prior to signing the order, Biden spoke …
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On May 15, 1999, Regina McKnight gave birth to a stillborn five-pound baby girl at Conway Medical Center in South Carolina. She named her Mercedes. Five months later, McKnight — an unhoused Black woman — was arrested on charges of homicide by child abuse after her daughter’s autopsy indicated that …
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In light of the Supreme Court Dobbs decision effectively overturning Roe v. Wade, many reproductive rights activists have criticized cisgender heterosexual men for staying silent on the issue of abortion rights — even though men are also impacted by the availability of safe, accessible abortion. But as we discuss on …
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At an evangelical victory party in front of the Supreme Court to celebrate the downfall of Roe v. Wade last week, a prominent Capitol Hill religious leader was caught on a hot mic making a bombshell claim: that she prays with sitting justices inside the high court. “We’re the only …
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