Access to medication abortion is expanding — and conservative states want it stopped
Research shows the procedure is extremely safe and allows an alternative to in-office care.
By Lisa Needham - August 19, 2021Research shows the procedure is extremely safe and allows an alternative to in-office care.
By Lisa Needham - August 19, 2021COVID-19 — and Republican lawmakers — have made access to care even more precarious.
By Lisa Needham - August 10, 2021It will start on Aug. 7, as soon as the current session ends.
By Emily Singer - August 05, 2021Republican Winsome Sears has compared some health clinics to the Ku Klux Klan.
By Josh Israel - August 04, 2021The conservative state is still in crisis when it comes to Black maternal mortality, a new report shows.
By Lisa Needham - July 29, 2021Research shows the unproven procedure is not only misguided but dangerous.
By Lisa Needham - July 22, 2021Rep. Chip Roy (R-TX) has debuted a bill that would defund every public university in California.
By Josh Israel - July 21, 2021GOP Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene recently spoke at a church that attacks LGBTQ rights, climate activism, and vaccines.
By Oliver Willis - July 19, 2021The Hyde Amendment has taken away the right to choose from an incalculable number of Americans with lower incomes since 1976.
By Josh Israel - July 16, 2021Alabama was looking to make it much harder for teenagers to get abortion care.
By Lisa Needham - July 13, 2021What’s happening in New Hampshire is indicative of just how precarious abortion access remains throughout the country.
By Lisa Needham - July 09, 2021Republican Rep. Madison Cawthorn also claimed that the left is involved in a plot to take over churches.
By Oliver Willis - July 09, 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, 2021From ‘election integrity’ to ‘critical race theory’ to targeting transgender students, Gov. Greg Abbott’s special session agenda is red meat for the GOP base.
By Emily Singer - July 07, 2021New polls show little support for GOP efforts to suppress the vote, ban abortions, and eliminate gun licensing and training requirements.
By Josh Israel - June 25, 2021The bishops will vote again in November, likely offering ammunition to conservatives ahead of the midterm elections.
By Josh Axelrod - June 21, 2021The program will receive $100 million in the next financial year, up from $20 million in 2017.
By Lisa Needham - June 14, 2021The comment was one of a number of offensive remarks Republican official Mark Robinson made at his state party convention.
By Emily Singer - June 09, 2021Paxton Smith spoke out against a new Texas law that outlaws abortion as early as six weeks after conception, when many are unaware they are pregnant.
By Associated Press - June 03, 2021It turns out that reducing access to health care is bad for the economy.
By Lisa Needham - June 01, 2021They say they’re shocked that he’s not backing an anti-abortion rule he promised not to in 2019.
By Josh Israel - May 27, 2021GOP lawmakers openly acknowledge that they are looking to upend the precedent set by Roe v. Wade.
By Lisa Needham - May 26, 2021There is no legitimate research that shows a medication abortion can be reversed, but that won’t stop conservative lawmakers from pushing the harmful lie.
By Lisa Needham - May 21, 2021The justices announced Monday that they will hear an abortion case that could undermine nearly 50 years of abortion rights rulings.
By Associated Press - May 18, 2021The conservative-majority court will hear arguments on a Mississippi law that has been blocked thus far from going into effect.
By Associated Press - May 17, 2021As the GOP claims to be ‘pro-life,’ nearly half of House Republicans voted against preventing pregnant workers from discrimination.
By Emily Singer - May 14, 2021Louisiana taxpayers may be on the hook for over $8 million after GOP lawmakers there took an abortion case to the Supreme Court and failed. Texas is following in the state’s footsteps.
By Lisa Needham - May 06, 2021The law was designed to bar Planned Parenthood from working with schools.
By Lisa Needham - May 06, 2021Former North Carolina Rep. Mark Walker will campaign with Abby Johnson, who endorses men voting on behalf of their wives.
By Emily Singer - April 29, 2021There’s even a proposed bill that would impose the death penalty for both people who have an abortion and the providers who perform them.
By Lisa Needham - April 22, 2021