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Ohio Overwhelmingly Rejects GOP Anti-Abortion Ploy

The Columbus Dispatch reports: Issue 1 failed in Ohio Tuesday as voters in large counties, suburban and rural areas turned out against the effort to change how Ohio’s constitution is amended. Decision Desk HQ, an election results reporting agency providing results and race calls for the USA TODAY Network Ohio, called the race around 8:12 p.m. Early results show the …

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Voter Turnout Promising In Ohio Abortion Rights Battle

The Washington Post reports: Ohio voters will decide Tuesday whether or not to make it harder to amend the state constitution in a special election that has tremendous implications for the fate of abortion rights in the state. For more than a century, Ohio voters have been able to amend the state constitution with a simple majority. The measure up …

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FRC: Dems Want “The Complete Californication” Of Ohio

Posted to the Family Research Council’s website: In the frantic lead-up to next Tuesday’s vote on Issue 1, the latest polling from Ohio Northern University shows both sides in a dead heat. Proponents are even up by a hair (42.4% to 41%) — shocking the radicals who’ve pumped millions of dollars into the state from outside groups. While the media …

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Alabama Sued Over Out-Of-State Abortion Advice Ban

The Birmingham News reports: Two clinic owners in Alabama and the ACLU filed a lawsuit Monday seeking to prevent prosecutions of people who provide information or assistance to women who want to travel out of state to get abortions. Alabama law prohibits doctors and others from performing abortions. The two plaintiffs in the lawsuit, Dr. Yashica Robinson and Robin Marty, …

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Senate Vote Sets Up Showdown On Pentagon Funding

CNN reports: The Senate passed a critical national defense policy bill Thursday evening – setting up a showdown with the Republican-controlled House. The House passed its own version of the bill – known as the National Defense Authorization Act – earlier this month after adopting a series of controversial amendments pushed by hardline conservatives. Now that the Senate has passed …

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Ohio Abortion Rights Measure Qualifies For Ballot

The Cincinnati Enquirer reports: It’s official: Ohioans will vote on abortion access this November. A proposed amendment to enshrine abortion protections in the state constitution submitted enough valid signatures to make the November ballot, the Ohio Secretary of State’s Office announced Tuesday. That means Ohio will be the only state in the nation voting on reproductive rights this year. The …

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Christian Groups To Press For Abortion Death Penalty

The Georgia Recorder reports: An all-male panel of anti-abortion religious leaders from around the country met Friday night to discuss the strategies that should be used to end abortion in every state at any stage of pregnancy, without exceptions for rape and incest, and with criminal punishment for the pregnant person in line with existing criminal penalties for murder, which …

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AL Anti-Abortion Leader Arrested On Child Sex Charges

The Birmingham News reports: A government relations employee with the Alabama Department of Education has been charged with sexual abuse of a child less than 12, according to court records. Cole Wagner, 32, of Montgomery, was arrested Wednesday on the charge. He was arrested by the Montgomery County sheriff’s department, according to the warrant. His bond was set at $60,000. …

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19 Republican AGs Demand Info On Patients Who Obtain Abortions Or Transgender Care In Other States

The Mississippi Free Press reports: Mississippi authorities need access to information about residents who obtain abortions or gender-affirming care in other states, Attorney General Lynn Fitch told the Biden administration in a June 16 letter. Attorneys general from 18 other states attorneys general signed onto the letter. Fitch’s letter calls on U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier …

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Iowa County Judge Temporarily Blocks Abortion Ban

The Des Moines Register reports: A Polk County judge has temporarily blocked Iowa’s “fetal heartbeat” law as a court challenge plays out, meaning abortion is again legal in Iowa up to 20 weeks of pregnancy. Gov. Kim Reynolds signed the “fetal heartbeat” law at about 2:45 p.m. Friday at the Family Leadership Summit, a gathering of conservative Christians where half …

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Racy Ad Warns Ohio About Anti-Abortion Measure

The Wrap reports: In what might be the subjectively raciest political ad ever, Democratic lobby group Progress Action Fund debuted a steamy sex scene takedown of the GOP this week. The scene opens up with a man and a woman kissing in bed, both of them in their underwear with the woman straddling the man and asking if he has …

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GOP Rep Roasted For Reversal On Abortion Access

Playbook reports: Rep. Nancy Mace (R-S.C.) had sharp words for her party on Thursday about its latest divisive move on abortion access – only to wind up voting yes in the end. “We should not be taking this fucking vote, man. Fuck,” a visibly frustrated Mace was overheard venting to her staff in an elevator, apparently referring to Thursday’s vote …

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House Advances Repeal Of Pentagon Abortion Policy

The Washington Examiner reports: House Republicans narrowly approved a controversial amendment to the annual defense bill that would overturn the Pentagon’s abortion policy, throwing the must-pass legislation into uncertainty ahead of its looming expiration deadline. The House voted 221-213 on Thursday to include the measure in the National Defense Authorization Act, an annual legislative bill that outlines the policy agenda …

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TODAY: Iowa Holds Special Session To Ban Abortion

Reuters reports: Iowa’s Republican-controlled legislature on Tuesday will consider a ban on abortions as soon as fetal cardiac activity can be detected, after around six weeks of pregnancy and before most women know they are pregnant. Governor Kim Reynolds, a Republican, ordered the special legislative session after the Iowa Supreme Court on June 16 blocked a similar measure passed in …

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Doug Burgum: Abortion Should Be “Left To The States”

The Hill reports: GOP presidential candidate and North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum (R) said Sunday that he would not sign a federal abortion ban if he was elected to the White House. “Well, my position is that I support the Dobbs decision, and this is the decision that should be left to the states,” Burgum told NBC’s Chuck Todd on …

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Court Advances Suit To Repeal 1849 WI Abortion Ban

Courthouse News reports: A lawsuit seeking to invalidate a nearly two-century-old Wisconsin statute outlawing abortion will proceed, after the presiding judge on Friday denied a motion to dismiss the closely watched legal action. Days after the U.S. Supreme Court upended Roe v. Wade last summer, making abortion law an issue for individual states to decide, Democratic Wisconsin Attorney General Josh …

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Indiana State Supreme Court Upholds Abortion Ban

The Hill reports: Indiana’s top court on Friday said the state’s near-total abortion ban is constitutional, and lifted a preliminary injunction that had been blocking the law from taking effect. Writing for three of the five Supreme Court justices, Justice Derek Molter said the Constitution “protects a woman’s right to an abortion that is necessary to protect her life or …

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Pence: All Candidates Should Call For Natl Abortion Ban

The Guardian reports: Speaking one year since the US Supreme Court removed the federal right to abortion, Mike Pence said candidates for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination should stand firm on the electorally unpopular issue and take a hard line on bringing in national limits. “For me, for our campaign, we’re going to stand where we’ve always stood, and that …

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Judge: Missouri AG Can’t Stop Abortion Referendum

The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports: A Cole County judge Tuesday rejected an attempt by Missouri’s top lawyer to stop a constitutional amendment to restore abortion rights, and ordered him to approve the fiscal note summary within 24 hours of the ruling. In a 28-page ruling, Circuit Judge Jon Beetem said Attorney General Andrew Bailey, who has refused to sign off …

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Anti-Abortion Leader Declares Trump “Disqualified”

Fox News reports: Live Action founder and pro-life leader Lila Rose told Americans to trust their conscience when voting for president in 2024, and argued that former President Trump was backsliding on pro-life issues, despite his role in the overturning of Roe v. Wade. She made waves on Twitter after she declared in April that Trump “disqualified” himself from the …

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