Tag Archives: abortion rights

DeSantis Says He’d Sign 15-Week Federal Abortion Ban

The New York Times reports: In the chaos of Wednesday night’s noisy Republican presidential debate, Senator Tim Scott of South Carolina interrupted Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida to pose a question on abortion that Mr. DeSantis had dodged directly answering for months. Would the Florida governor sign a “15-week limit” on abortion as president, Mr. Scott asked, talking over both …

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Trump Accuses Anti-Abortion Groups Of Being Grifters

“This is an issue that’s been going on for 52 years. I was able to end it. That gave tremendous negotiating power to the pro-life movement, tremendous negotiating power because they can’t do the things that they used to be able to do. The pro-life was fighting it. We have these groups fighting this thing for so many decades, but …

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California Sues Over “Abortion Pill Reversal” Claims

Reuters reports: California on Thursday sued two anti-abortion organizations for telling patients that they can help reverse the effects of the abortion pill mifepristone, a potentially dangerous claim not supported by evidence. In a complaint filed in Alameda County Superior Court, California Attorney General Rob Bonta, a Democrat, accused Heartbeat International (HBI) and RealOptions Obria of violating a state law …

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GOP Seeks To Repeal Law On Blocking Abortion Clinics

The Christian Post reports: Republican U.S. Rep. Chip Roy of Texas has introduced legislation to repeal a federal law that has been used to prosecute abortion clinic protesters and those accused of vandalizing crisis pregnancy centers. Roy introduced the bill Tuesday meant to repeal the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act, with Republican Sen. Mike Lee of Utah introducing …

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Indiana AG In Hot Water Over Abortion Comments

Indianapolis’s Fox affiliate reports: The Disciplinary Commission of the Indiana Supreme Court has filed a disciplinary complaint against Indiana Attorney General Todd Rokita in relation to comments he made to media outlets and other public statements he made between July 2022 and September 2022 surrounding an investigation into Dr. Caitlin Bernard. According to documents filed Monday, the commission claimed that …

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DeSantis: The Pentagon Is Funding “Abortion Tourism”

“They are breaking and violating the law by funding abortion tourism with tax dollars. When agencies do that, the Congress has to stand up and push back against it. Our recruiting is in the absolute gutter now, and you’re funding abortion tourism? Is that really something helping to protect this country? So we need to fight back against it and …

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Republicans Seek Replacement Term For “Pro-Life”

NBC News reports: Republican strategists are exploring a shift away from “pro-life” messaging on abortion after consistent Election Day losses for the GOP when reproductive rights were on the ballot. At a closed-door meeting of Senate Republicans this week, the head of a super PAC closely aligned with Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., presented poll results that suggested voters …

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Mexican Top Court Decriminalizes Abortion Nationwide

The Associated Press reports: Mexico’s Supreme Court decriminalized abortion nationwide Wednesday, two years after ruling that abortion was not a crime in one northern state. That earlier ruling had set off a grinding process of decriminalizing abortion state by state. Last week, the central state of Aguascalientes became the 12th state to decriminalize the procedure. Judges in states that still …

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Texas Towns Are Making It Illegal For Women To Use Their Roads To Travel To Out-Of-State Abortion Clinics

The Washington Post reports: For well over an hour, the people of Llano — a town of about 3,400 deep in Texas Hill Country — approached the podium to speak out against abortion. While the procedure was now illegal across Texas, people were still driving women on Llano roads to reach abortion clinics in other states, the residents had been …

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FRC Furious Anti-Abortion Activists Remain Jailed

Posted to the Family Research Council’s website: Pro-lifers are fighting to stay out of jail after being convicted of federal crimes by a Washington, D.C. jury. Five pro-life activists with the Progressive Anti-Abortion Uprising (PAAU) organization were convicted Tuesday of violating the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances (FACE) Act and were immediately jailed. Lauren Handy, John Hinshaw, Heather Idoni, …

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Five Anti-Abortion Activists Guilty Of Blocking DC Clinic

Washington DC’s CBS affiliate reports: A jury convicted five anti-abortion activists Tuesday of conspiring to blockade a D.C. clinic in 2020 in violation of federal law. Jurors deliberated for a day and a half before returning their verdict, finding activists Lauren Handy, Heather Idoni, William Goodman, John Hinshaw and Herb Geraghty of two felony counts each of conspiracy against rights …

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FL Paper Fact-Checks Abortion Story Told By DeSantis

The Miami Herald reports: At Wednesday’s Republican candidates debate, during a discussion of late-term abortion, Gov. Ron DeSantis told a horrific but puzzling story. “I know a lady in Florida named Penny,” the GOP presidential candidate said. “She survived multiple abortion attempts. She was left discarded in a pan. Fortunately, her grandmother saved her and brought her to another hospital.” …

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Recreational Weed Makes Ohio’s November Ballot

Cincinnati’s CBS affiliate reports: Ohio voters will decide in November if marijuana should be legal for recreational use. Sec. of State Frank LaRose [photo] announced Wednesday evening that the proposal to legalize weed gained enough valid signatures in their second go to make the ballot. The statute didn’t have enough valid signatures to make the ballot in July. The group, …

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600K Sign For Florida Abortion Rights Ballot Measure

Florida Politics reports: Facing a deadline 169 days from now, abortion rights proponents say they’ve collected nearly three-fourths of the signatures needed to get a referendum on the 2024 ballot that could guarantee abortion rights in Florida. Galvanized by legislation that makes abortion illegal before most women know they are pregnant, officials with Floridians Protecting Freedom say the effort that …

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Man Gets 10 Years For Firebombing IL Abortion Clinic

Champaign’s CBS affiliate reports: For throwing a makeshift Molotov cocktail into Peoria’s Planned Parenthood clinic earlier this year, a Chillicothe man will go to federal prison for 10 years. Tyler Massengill, 32, clad in an orange jumpsuit of a Peoria County Jail inmate, showed no emotion as the sentence was read aloud. He stood before the judge and apologized, saying …

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Kennedy Backs Abortion Ban Then Recants Hours Later

NBC News reports: Democratic presidential hopeful and known anti-vaxxer Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said Sunday that he would support a national ban on abortion after the first three months of pregnancy if elected, only to walk back the stance hours later alleging he “misunderstood” repeated questions from NBC News on the topic. “Mr. Kennedy misunderstood a question posed to him …

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Pence: I’ll Call Out Trump On Abortion During Debate

The Washington Examiner reports: Former Vice President Mike Pence warned his opponents on Friday that he would debate the Republican Party’s presidential front-runners on the topic of abortion, which he believes should be banned nationally after 15 weeks. Pence, who has called himself “unapologetically pro-life,” said he would call out Trump and DeSantis on their stances toward abortion during the …

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Bannon Blasts Anti-Abortion Activists: How Did You Screw This Up In A “MAGA Bastion” State Like Ohio?

Media Matters has the transcript: You’ve had Kansas, Michigan, and now Ohio, right, excuse me, Kansas, Wisconsin, and Ohio, Michigan I don’t know that well. You’ve had three in a row, where that case hasn’t been made or it’s not resonating. And these are not close, these in modern American politics these are blowouts, these are blowouts. You’ve had three …

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OH Sec Of State: “Radical Activists” Killed Amendment

From Ohio Secretary of State Frank LaRose: I’m grateful that nearly 1.3 million Ohioans stood with us in this fight, but this is only one battle in a long war. Unfortunately, we were dramatically outspent by dark money billionaires from California to New York, and the giant ‘for sale’ sign still hangs on Ohio’s constitution. Ohioans will see the devastating …

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AZ Coalition To Push For Abortion Rights Amendment

NBC News reports: A coalition of reproductive and civil rights groups launched an effort Tuesday to advance an amendment that would enshrine abortion rights in the Arizona Constitution, making the swing state the latest battleground in the post-Roe era. The coalition — led by the American Civil Liberties Union of Arizona, Planned Parenthood Advocates of Arizona, NARAL Arizona and several …

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