One of the opening questions in Jeff Sessions’ hearing today was: does Jeff Sessions like Jason Bourne or James Bond movies? (He likes neither, but he does enjoy a good David Ignatius paperback, te-he; it was one of the few unequivocal truths we learned from that hearing). In any case, it was a setup for Republican…
With two weeks left in the New York state senate’s legislative session, abortion advocates are pressuring lawmakers to bring a vote on the Reproductive Health Act, a bill that would reform a draconian New York law that currently forces women to bring nonviable pregnancies to term.
Bernie Sanders is currently on a “Democratic unity tour” which included a stop over in Omaha to support mayoral candidate Heath Mello, who is both a Democrat and has a history of supporting legislation against abortion rights.
On Monday, the Texas Senate voted on a bill that would ban “dilation and evacuation” for second-trimester abortions, considered the safest and most commonly used method during that stage of a pregnancy. Up in the visitors gallery, silent protestors sat wearing red and white, dressed as characters from The Handmaid’s…
In 2016, Utah passed a law requiring fetuses beyond 20 weeks—the gestational point that Republican legislators argued that a fetus can feel pain—be given painkillers prior to “elective abortion.” Utah dubbed it “fetal anesthesia,” and though there is no medical evidence indicating that fetuses can feel pain, nor any…
A federal judge in Austin has issued an injunction that effectively prevents Texas from cutting Medicaid funds to Planned Parenthood over secret videos recorded by anti-abortion activists in 2015.
On Wednesday, a trio of anti-abortion measures continued to wend their way through the Texas State Legislature, buoyed by Republicans’ expectations for a more conservative Supreme Court. A Senate Health and Human Services Committee hearing included testimony from NARAL Texas legislative intern Maggie Hennessy, whose…
Did you know that in Wyoming, women are cattle? That’s the message Republican lawmakers are sending by passing two anti-abortion bills through the Senate Agriculture, State and Public Lands and Water Resources Committee.
Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson has signed a new bill into law that bans uterine dilation and evacuation, one of the safest and most common abortion procedures in existence, and allows family members of the woman to sue her abortion provider if the physician is in violation of the new law.
While women’s rights activists are (and should be!) still riding the high from Saturday’s global women’s marches, it’s important to use that energy for something productive—like recognizing that Roe v. Wade, which hit its 44th anniversary Sunday, remains under attack and is currently at more risk than ever before.
WASHINGTON, DC—“Shit, shit, shit,” Kristan Hawkins, president of Students for Life, muttered into her phone. Hawkins was standing in front of the Supreme Court corralling a group of 30 anti-abortion activists. Almost all of the activists were young women—only a few men and one MAGA hat—gathered to make their voices…
Kentucky, which until recently had the last Democrat-controlled legislative chamber in the south, is taking a giant leap towards Making America Great Again by kneecapping the state’s middle class and undermining a woman’s constitutional right to abortion.
On Tuesday, the first day of Kentucky’s 2017 legislative session—and the first day in nearly 100 years that the Republican party controlled both chambers of the legislature—Republicans moved quickly to introduce two anti-abortion bills: one, Senate Bill 5, to ban abortions after 20 weeks, and another, House Bill 2, to…
Earlier this month Ohio Governor John Kasich vetoed the so-called Heartbeat Bill, a measure that, if signed, would have banned all abortions after a fetal heartbeat could be detected. The law, sponsored by a fringe anti-choice group who broke from the more “mainstream” Ohio Right to Life to push the bill through a…
The Washington Post published a chilling dispatch on Monday from Poland’s nationalist takeover, one year in. As Warsaw simmers with protests over opposition accusations that the ruling (and ironically named) Law and Justice party illegally passed next year’s budget by moving the vote outside of the main chamber of…
The Ohio legislature is currently pushing through two separate abortion restrictions bills that are vying to hit Governor John Kasich’s desk before the 2016 session comes to an end.
Planned Parenthood president Cecile Richards announced on Twitter this Wednesday that the Center for Reproductive Rights and the ACLU have filed lawsuits in Alaska, Missouri and North Carolina in an attempt to protect abortion rights in states that have been accruing legislature making access to safe legal abortions…
In two states, Indiana and Pennsylvania, lawmakers are seeking to erode access to abortion, in one case, by making it a criminal act. Earlier this week, Indiana State Representative Curt Nisly said that he would introduce a legislation that would outlaw all abortions in the state.
It’s a fresh week in the darkest timeline we’re all inhabiting together, and Donald Trump remains both deeply confused and a direct menace to women. In a 60 Minutes interview, he suggested that maybe his Supreme Court nominee will overturn Roe v. Wade: “They’ll have to go to another state.”
Poland already has an extremely restrictive abortion policy, which means that a recent proposal for a total ban on all abortion exceptions was met with huge resistance by constituents. After massive protests on Monday, parliamentary leaders started to walk back their positions on the proposed ban, and on Thursday they…
