Utah Republicans seek to take abortion restrictions to the next level
The state GOP’s proposed new platform would remove protections for pregnant people whose lives are at risk.
By Lisa Needham - April 28, 2022The state GOP’s proposed new platform would remove protections for pregnant people whose lives are at risk.
By Lisa Needham - April 28, 2022Oklahoma Attorney General John O’Connor made clear the state is passing abortion bans because it believes Roe v. Wade will be overturned.
By Lisa Needham - April 13, 2022‘If Roe is overturned, abortion could become illegal in Michigan in nearly any circumstance—including in cases of rape and incest,’ said Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer.
By Adrian Cole - April 12, 2022Since the Supreme Court agreed to consider Mississippi’s ban, multiple states have passed previability bans.
By Lisa Needham - April 08, 2022Mississippi House Speaker Philip Gunn claimed he hadn’t seen the data that shows Medicaid expansion saves lives.
By Lisa Needham - March 21, 2022Justice Sonia Sotomayor wrote in her dissent that the majority’s ruling allows Texas ‘yet again to extend the deprivation of the federal constitutional rights of its citizens.’
By Lisa Needham - January 21, 2022Cancer screenings and other health care services could be severely disrupted as a result of GOP officials’ actions.
By Lisa Needham - January 14, 2022The Washington Post-ABC News poll also found that only a small fraction of Americans back the Texas abortion ban currently before the Supreme Court.
By Josh Israel - November 16, 2021As of Monday morning, abortions remain nearly totally banned in Texas.
By Lisa Needham - October 18, 2021With an estimated 1,000 women per week in Texas seeking an abortion, clinics in nearby states report being overwhelmed.
By Associated Press - October 17, 2021The Republican senator calls herself ‘pro-choice,’ but she continues to back Supreme Court justices who let an extreme Texas abortion ban stand.
By Josh Israel - October 07, 2021A lawsuit filed by the Biden administration seeks to land the first legal blow against the Texas law.
By Associated Press - October 01, 2021Texans are not on board with Gov. Greg Abbott’s actions against abortion rights and COVID safety measures, according to new Quinnipiac University polling.
By Josh Israel - September 30, 2021The GOP governor has referred to the death penalty as ‘Texas justice.’ Catholic activists say that puts him at odds with his own faith.
By Josh Axelrod - September 29, 2021A day after his revealing comments in Thursday’s debate, the Republican gubernatorial nominee received the endorsement of a major anti-abortion PAC.
By Josh Israel - September 17, 2021‘Texas enacted S.B. 8 in open defiance of the Constitution,’ the Department of Justice wrote in its complaint.
By Lisa Needham - September 10, 2021Reproductive rights have been thrust into the spotlight as Election Day in Virginia approaches.
By Emily Singer - September 09, 2021‘It is likely that we’ll see the numbers of maternal death growing as a result of the extremely restrictive abortion climate,’ said the lead author of a recent study.
By Jacob Gardenswartz - September 08, 2021GOP lawmakers across the country have said they also want the most restrictive abortion ban in the country implemented in their own states, including Florida, South Dakota, and Arkansas.
By Lisa Needham - September 08, 2021Even conservative Chief Justice John Roberts dissented from the highly ‘unusual’ majority opinion.
By Lisa Needham - September 02, 2021Republican Jake Evans is a top challenger to Democratic Rep. Lucy McBath in a key swing district in Georgia.
By Emily Singer - August 04, 2021Former Georgia state Rep. Vernon Jones voiced support for a total ban on abortion.
By Emily Singer - July 28, 2021Glenn Youngkin said he won’t talk publicly about some of his more severe positions on abortion because that ‘won’t win my independent votes that I have to get.’
By Emily Singer - July 07, 2021A policy analyst at the Guttmacher Institute said an upcoming Supreme Court case could ‘basically create two Americas when it comes to abortion.’
By Lisa Needham - July 01, 2021Earlier this year, the Supreme Court agreed to hear a case about Mississippi’s previability ban.
By Lisa Needham - June 23, 2021GOP lawmakers openly acknowledge that they are looking to upend the precedent set by Roe v. Wade.
By Lisa Needham - May 26, 2021The new Texas law prohibits state officials from being the ones to enforce the ban on abortion.
By Associated Press - May 19, 2021The entire judicial process highlights just how tenuous abortion access is in states like Arkansas.
By Lisa Needham - December 23, 2020The state is putting doctors in a really uncomfortable position.
By Lisa Needham - December 08, 2020