Top GOP congressman brags about making rape victims have babies
Steve Scalise spoke with pride about voting for a bill that would have forced 12-year-old rape victims to give birth.
By Oliver Willis - May 21, 2019
Steve Scalise spoke with pride about voting for a bill that would have forced 12-year-old rape victims to give birth.
By Oliver Willis - May 21, 2019
The vast majority of Americans understand that abortion is health care, and health care is not a crime.
By Emily Crockett - May 21, 2019
Prosecutors in several large Georgia counties are vowing not to enforce a draconian new GOP law attacking women and doctors.
By Dan Desai Martin - May 21, 2019
Sen. Tom Cotton believes men like him, not women and their doctors, should control women’s health care.
By Oliver Willis - May 20, 2019
Missouri passed a law criminalizing abortion after eight weeks — before many women know they’re pregnant, and with no exceptions for rape or incest.
By Emily Singer - May 17, 2019
Kevin McCarthy mistakenly claimed that the Republican Party platform allows exceptions for rape and incest if abortion is banned.
By Oliver Willis - May 16, 2019
Josh Hawley blamed Democrats for what his own party and state are doing to women.
By Oliver Willis - May 16, 2019
Republican lawmakers in Ohio want to make doctors tell patients about a made-up ‘abortion reversal’ procedure that is unproven and untested.
By Lisa Needham - May 16, 2019
Brian Kemp is feeling mounting pressure after signing a radical anti-abortion bill into law.
By Dan Desai Martin - May 15, 2019
Alabama just passed the most extreme anti-choice bill in the nation.
By Lisa Needham - May 15, 2019
Trump’s statement honoring women’s health is nothing more than empty rhetoric after all of the policies he’s implemented that directly hurt women.
By Emily Singer - May 13, 2019
The Alabama GOP abruptly shut down the Senate on Thursday amid a shouting match over a sneaky attempt to make an extreme anti-choice bill even worse.
By Lisa Needham - May 10, 2019
A new bill in the Ohio House of Representatives would require women to undergo an imaginary medical procedure to address a life-threatening complication of pregnancy.
By Lisa Needham - May 09, 2019
GOP Gov. Brian Kemp signed a law that bans abortion before most women know they’re pregnant.
By Emily Singer - May 07, 2019
Alabama’s House of Representatives just passed the most draconian anti-choice bill in the nation.
By Lisa Needham - May 03, 2019
A federal judge in Oregon just stopped the Trump administration from implementing its harmful rule restricting what reproductive health information doctors can provide to their patients.
By Lisa Needham - April 30, 2019
New proposed rules from Trump’s health department would let bigoted health care professionals discriminate against patients.
By Dan Desai Martin - April 25, 2019
A federal judge smacked down the Trump administration’s dangerous ‘gag rule’ on doctors.
By Dan Desai Martin - April 24, 2019
The Trump administration is standing in the way of supporting rape survivors.
By Dan Desai Martin - April 23, 2019
A Delaware Republican wants to make ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ a reality for American women.
By Emily Singer - April 16, 2019
Texas Republicans are considering a bill that would classify abortions as homicide, which in Texas is punishable by death.
By Emily Singer - April 10, 2019
An anti-abortion health clinic that doesn’t even offer hormonal birth control received a family planning grant from the Trump administration.
By Emily Singer - April 02, 2019
Mike Pompeo, the head of the State Department under Trump, just expanded the global gag rule yet again.
By Lisa Needham - March 28, 2019
It’s both pointless and dangerous.
By Emily Crockett - March 26, 2019
A radical new abortion ban puts every pregnant woman in danger.
By Emily Crockett - March 26, 2019
The Trump administration wouldn’t keep track of families they separated — but they did keep a meticulous list of girls’ menstrual cycles while they were in government custody.
By Emily Singer - March 18, 2019
The Trump administration rule would deny federal funds to clinics that offer abortions — or that even let women know where they can go to get an abortion.
By Dan Desai Martin - March 04, 2019
They are literally inciting terrorism.
By Emily Crockett - March 03, 2019
It was a cynical move to restrict abortion access and criminalize doctors for using their best medical judgment.
By Oliver Willis - February 26, 2019
The move would leave many low-income patients with nowhere else to go for affordable birth control and sexual health screenings.
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