Tag: Abortion Rights

Black Women Express Concerns About The Future Of Abortion And Reproductive Rights In New Poll

NewsOne Featured Video Source: Nathan Howard / Getty Black women are worried about the future of abortion and reproductive rights as politicians fail to provide affordable access to birth control and fight to curtail access to Mifepristone, an abortion medication that can be used to terminate pregnancy through ten weeks gestation.  According to a new survey […]

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How Hobby Lobby Could Be Trump’s Reproductive Rights Wrecking Ball

If the Supreme Court reanimates Comstock, it could effectively green-light a ban on some methods of contraception, all without overturning Griswold. “To the extent that the court would literally have a huge shitstorm on his hands were it to overrule yet another precedent, and one as high-profile as Griswold, yeah, this is a great interim […]

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Will Biden’s Pledge to Restore Roe Go Far Enough?

Roe established the right to an abortion up to the point when a fetus can survive outside of the uterus, commonly referred to as “viability.” At the time Roe was decided, fetal viability was considered to occur at 28 weeks of pregnancy. A subsequent Supreme Court decision in 1992, Planned Parenthood v. Casey, determined that […]

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Biden Has Pledged to “Restore Roe.” That Won’t Cut It.

Roe established the right to an abortion up to the point when a fetus can survive outside of the uterus, commonly referred to as “viability.” At the time Roe was decided, fetal viability was considered to occur at 28 weeks of pregnancy. A subsequent Supreme Court decision in 1992, Planned Parenthood v. Casey, determined that […]

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Biden Has Pledged to Restore Roe. Some Say That Won’t Cut It.

Roe established the right to an abortion up to the point when a fetus can survive outside of the uterus, commonly referred to as “viability.” At the time Roe was decided, fetal viability was considered to occur at 28 weeks of pregnancy. A subsequent Supreme Court decision in 1992, Planned Parenthood v. Casey, determined that […]

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The Right-Wing War on Abortion Has Nothing to Do With Babies

This is the crux of the whole damn thing: It doesn’t matter what a person wants the autonomy for! She can want to use her bodily autonomy to conceive through in vitro fertilization with her husband of 15 years, or she can want to use it to take Plan B after a one-night stand, or […]

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A Year of Republicans Lying About Abortion

As Brian Beutler pointed out in his Off Message newsletter, this was worthy of alarm bells: “The question of whether elites, particularly center-right elites, choose to abide fascism is central to the survival of democracy.” In a later post, Beutler dove deeper into Dimon’s rhetoric, and found evidence that whatever ties that might have bound […]

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GOP Senators Say They Support IVF—Just Not a Federal Law to Secure It

This Monday, we celebrated Presidents’ Day, so named because it happens to fall roughly around the birthdays of noted Aquarians George Washington and Abraham Lincoln. (February 19 actually was Washington’s birthday, which means we get an extra point for accuracy, I guess.) Congress, as it is wont to do, opted to extend the three-day weekend […]

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The Future of the Anti-Abortion Movement Depends on Voter Suppression

Those Republican electeds vowing to protect access to IVF are as delighted as the most vehement anti-choice activist to undermine the right to vote—at the most fundamental level, after all, they are broadly anti-choice. Americans as whole express a somewhat less hysterical level of cognitive dissonance: While they support access measures like early voting, absentee […]

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Voter Suppression Is the Anti-Abortion Movement’s Secret Sauce

Those Republican electeds vowing to protect access to IVF are as delighted as the most vehement anti-choice activist to undermine the right to vote—at the most fundamental level, after all, they are broadly anti-choice. Americans as whole express a somewhat less hysterical level of cognitive dissonance: While they support access measures like early voting, absentee […]

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Alabama Republicans Display Shocking Hypocrisy on IVF With New Bill

Screenshot So despite what Cooper said Tuesday evening, it is actually critical to talk about Gaza in any analysis of Michigan’s results. Talking about Israel’s bombing of Gaza—and how Biden is backing that bombing—is the actual politics of the issue. “I think sometimes as we’re talking about this issue, we are centering President Biden, we […]

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Alabama Republicans’ New IVF Bill Is a Blatant Election Ploy

Screenshot So despite what Cooper said Tuesday evening, it is actually critical to talk about Gaza in any analysis of Michigan’s results. Talking about Israel’s bombing of Gaza—and how Biden is backing that bombing—is the actual politics of the issue. “I think sometimes as we’re talking about this issue, we are centering President Biden, we […]

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Alabama Republicans Want to Protect IVF… Until After the Election

Screenshot So despite what Cooper said Tuesday evening, it is actually critical to talk about Gaza in any analysis of Michigan’s results. Talking about Israel’s bombing of Gaza—and how Biden is backing that bombing—is the actual politics of the issue. “I think sometimes as we’re talking about this issue, we are centering President Biden, we […]

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Alabama Republicans Suddenly Have an IVF Bill. It’s Worse Than It Seems.

Screenshot So despite what Cooper said Tuesday evening, it is actually critical to talk about Gaza in any analysis of Michigan’s results. Talking about Israel’s bombing of Gaza—and how Biden is backing that bombing—is the actual politics of the issue. “I think sometimes as we’re talking about this issue, we are centering President Biden, we […]

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Trump’s Panicky Eruption Over Embryo Ruling Won’t Fix GOP’s IVF Mess

This week, Democrats are announcing a new round of spending by the DLCC on 2024 state legislative contests, bringing the total spent to $750,000 this cycle. The group will channel resources into the battle to flip control of the legislatures in Arizona and Wisconsin (where the party just secured fair district maps) and the state […]

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It’s Now Also Harder for Alabama IVF Patients to Get Care Out of State

Carpenter, whose political views appear to span the spectrum from pro–conspiracy theory to anti–Donald Trump, says he and Kramer met through a mutual acquaintance. He provided NBC with texts, emails, and Venmo payment receipts detailing their relationship. Kramer first hired Carpenter in September to make two A.I. recordings of South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham. In […]

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When a Failed Pregnancy Becomes a Crime

This Monday, we celebrated Presidents’ Day, so named because it happens to fall roughly around the birthdays of noted Aquarians George Washington and Abraham Lincoln. (February 19 actually was Washington’s birthday, which means we get an extra point for accuracy, I guess.) Congress, as it is wont to do, opted to extend the three-day weekend […]

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When a Failed Pregnancy Becomes a Crime

This Monday, we celebrated Presidents’ Day, so named because it happens to fall roughly around the birthdays of noted Aquarians George Washington and Abraham Lincoln. (February 19 actually was Washington’s birthday, which means we get an extra point for accuracy, I guess.) Congress, as it is wont to do, opted to extend the three-day weekend […]

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Alabama’s IVF Ruling Is a Dire Warning to Other States

Other justices on the court took a more expansive approach. One of them was Chief Justice Tom Parker, who is a major figure in the fetal personhood movement. ProPublica described him in 2014 as the Alabama judge who “has figured out how to dismantle Roe v. Wade.” Through his rulings and advocacy, he helped elevate […]

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That Alabama Court Embryo Ruling Is Already Having Tragic Effects

Tragically, it’s not the first time that Owasso has punished one of its LGBTQ+ members. In April 2022, one of Benedict’s teachers at Owasso High School, Tyler Wrynn, was featured in a video by Libs of TikTok, a far-right account run by professional agitator Chaya Raichik whose other posts have led to multiple bomb threats […]

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Well, That Alabama Supreme Court Embryo Ruling Is Already Gutting IVF

Tragically, it’s not the first time that Owasso has punished one of its LGBTQ+ members. In April 2022, one of Benedict’s teachers at Owasso High School, Tyler Wrynn, was featured in a video by Libs of TikTok, a far-right account run by professional agitator Chaya Raichik whose other posts have led to multiple bomb threats […]

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The Zombie Law Trump Wants to Use to Ban Abortion Nationwide

Dickson, Mitchell’s partner in Comstock, told Littlefield that such ordinances were “de facto” bans on abortion, achieved by prohibiting clinics  use of the mail. “If an abortion facility cannot receive abortion-inducing drugs or any abortion paraphernalia,” he explained, “then how can they perform abortions?” In towns and counties that had adopted one of Mitchell and […]

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Missouri Republicans Have Come Up With a New Way to Blow Up Democracy

Other state senators have proposed a similar measure with an important twist: Instead of requiring the support of a majority of state legislative districts, it would require the support of a majority of the state’s congressional districts. That difference would be a troubling one. While state legislative maps are drawn by the bipartisan commissions, Missouri’s […]

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How the Right Weaponized the Dobbs Ruling to Wage War on Trans People

True to form, the Circuit Courts in Skrmetti and Eknes-Tucker rejected the argument that gender-affirming healthcare bans implicated a protected class in which heightened scrutiny applied. According to the Sixth Circuit, “It’s highly unlikely, as an initial matter, that the plaintiffs could show that the Act lacks a rational basis.”   “The reality that the [gender-affirming […]

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The Supreme Court Ruling the Right Is Using to Eradicate Transgender People

True to form, the circuit courts in Skrmetti and Eknes-Tucker rejected the argument that gender-affirming health care bans implicated a protected class in which heightened scrutiny applied. According to the Sixth Circuit, “It’s highly unlikely, as an initial matter, that the plaintiffs could show that the Act lacks a rational basis.” “The reality that the […]

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Lindsey Graham Seems Unfamiliar With the Republican Party

“There will be the inevitable political punditry about a decision to remove Trump from the ballot, but it is not a matter of political gamesmanship. This is a dire matter that puts at stake the sanctity of our constitution and our democracy,” she concluded. Kounalakis’s call will likely incense some of the state’s voters, more […]

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This Is How the Right Is “Rebranding” the Pro-Life Movement

This is the biggest problem that those who are so desperate to “rebrand ‘pro-life’” face right now: This is a movement that’s largely defined by the zealots in its ranks. You’re not going to be able to exert control over a nation of anti-abortion radicals with a Central Committee to Temper Our Excesses and Lessen […]

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The Abortion Pill Might Just Stand a Chance at the Supreme Court

The Justice Department, for its part, rejected AHM’s claims that it had any reasonable grounds for standing in this case. “To describe those theories is to refute them,” the government said in its petition for review, quoting from major Supreme Court precedents on how standing is supposed to work. “This Court has repeatedly rejected theories […]

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How Texas Tried to Torture a Woman for Being Pregnant

Damla Carson, Cox’s physician in Dallas, told the court that she had concluded that a dilation-and-evacuation abortion is medically recommended to preserve Cox’s health and future fertility. “Dr. Karsan, however, cannot risk liability under Texas’s abortion bans and laws for providing Ms. Cox’s abortion absent intervention from the court confirming that doing so will not […]

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The Supreme Court Isn’t Done Messing With Your Reproductive Rights

As The New Republic’s editor, Michael Tomasky, pointed out, the word “vermin” has a fairly noteworthy place in the history of political rhetoric. “To announce that the real enemy is domestic and then to speak of that enemy in subhuman terms is Fascism 101,” he wrote. “Especially that particular word.” Nevertheless, Trump’s dangerous new escalation […]

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Tommy Tuberville Has a Ridiculous New Complaint About the U.S. Military

As The New Republic’s editor, Michael Tomasky, pointed out, the word “vermin” has a fairly noteworthy place in the history of political rhetoric. “To announce that the real enemy is domestic and then to speak of that enemy in subhuman terms is Fascism 101,” he wrote. “Especially that particular word.” Nevertheless, Trump’s dangerous new escalation […]

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