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Republican lawmakers aren’t waiting for the next Trump administration to begin chipping away at Biden-era protections for reproductive rights. As they allocate next year’s funding to federal agencies, hard-right legislators on the House Appropriations Committee are taking cues from the right-wing Heritage Foundation, the think tank behind Project 2025, as …

Donald Trump stood on stage in Atlanta on Thursday night and told an insane lie: Democrats, he said, want to “kill the baby.” “They will take the life of a child in the eighth month, the ninth month, and even after birth — after birth — if you look at …

In January, a year and half after the Supreme Court’s Republican appointees gave states free reign to restrict abortion — even if that meant forcing women to carry dangerous, ill-fated pregnancies to term— the court doubled-down on that decision, stepping in to ensure Idaho could continue denying abortions to patients …

On a Thursday two years ago today, at exactly 10:10 in the morning, the Supreme Court issued its decision in Dobbs, the landmark case overruling Roe v. Wade and ending the federal right to abortion. The decision was not necessarily a surprise —almost two months earlier, a leaked draft of …

This week at a resort in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, delegates at the Republican Oarty convention quietly approved a platform with a retooled “Right to Life” plank. Journalists were barred from the proceedings, but reporter Logan Finney of Idaho Reports obtained the language ahead of the event and, reading it, it’s …

Watching focus groups isn’t a good way to make yourself feel better about America, especially when their participants assert inconvenient truths. I know this first hand because for the last four years, I have acted as Senior Adviser to the Research Collaborative, which has done 25 focus groups and frequent …

The Supreme Court ruled on Thursday that a coalition of conservative activists seeking to challenge the availability of abortion medication in the United States lack the necessary legal standing to challenge the legality of the drug, rejecting the bid to further restrict national access to medical abortion care. The case, …

The nation’s largest gathering of protestants voted to oppose the use of in-vitro fertilization (IVF) in fertility treatments, a harbinger of the anti-abortion movement’s growing fixation on care for infertility. On Wednesday, the Southern Baptist Convention — an annual gathering of thousands of “delegates” representing scores of Baptist and evangelical …

O NE AFTERNOON IN LATE APRIL, Vice President Kamala Harris climbed into a large black car parked in the garage of the CBS Broadcast Center on New York’s West 57th Street and sat bolt-upright in the leather seat. She’d just finished taping an episode of The Drew Barrymore Show — …

Over the past two decades, the Supreme Court has been captured by dark-money interests, and justices are reshaping our laws and society according to their reactionary, far-right vision. It’s a problem that would only be compounded with a second Donald Trump administration pursuing an extreme, right-wing policy agenda. Trump’s judicial …