Donald Trump was certain that evangelical voters and Christian-right leaders would “never” abandon him. In the months before he formally announced his campaign to reclaim the White House, Trump had quizzed certain advisers about what “the evangelicals” thought of his flirtations with a third run, two sources familiar with the …
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On Monday’s episode of Jimmy Kimmel Live, Kimmel ramped up for midterm elections. The host took on former President Donald Trump, Dr. Oz, and Herschel Walker all in the opening monologue. Yet the highlight of the night went to Kimmel’s wife and the show’s co-head writer, Molly McNearney, who literally …
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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 …
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If Adam Laxalt’s Senate race becomes a referendum on abortion, he’ll lose. The Republican is running in Nevada, a solidly pro-choice state where voters in 1990 overwhelmingly approved a ballot measure that codified the right to abortion up to 24 weeks. Support for reproductive rights remains strong to this day: …
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During his administration, former President Donald Trump referred 334 classified leaks for criminal investigation, setting a record. And at his rally Saturday night, he said that the journalists who published the Supreme Court‘s preliminary decision to overturn Roe v. Wade would reveal their sources under threat of rape in prison. …
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Just eight miles of rolling Palouse hills separate the college towns of Moscow, Idaho, and Pullman, Washington, but for decades they’ve existed as fiefdoms with rival laws. Back in the Eighties, when the drinking age in Idaho was still 18, students from Washington State University in Pullman would cross the …
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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 …
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Former Vice President Mike Pence says he believes implementing a national abortion ban and continuing the conservative fight to restrict bodily autonomy for women “is profoundly more important than any short-term politics.” The comments came in an interview with RealClearPolitics, during which Pence urged his fellow Republicans not to “shrink …
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There was no winner in last month’s vote on abortion rights in Kansas. Technically, nothing changed after voters overwhelmingly rejected a ballot measure intended to strip abortion protections out of the state’s constitution. When the race was called on the evening of August 2, every Kansan retained the same set …
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MACOMB COUNTY, Michigan — Renee Chelian was on the first vacation she’d taken since Roe’s reversal when she learned one of the abortion clinics she operates was suddenly under legal threat. First, Chelian called her attorneys. Next, a conference call with her doctors. “The patients are terrified, they don’t know …
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