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Trump officials' stunning confusion over birth control laid bare in new emails: report
3+ hour, 46+ min ago (346+ words) The internal State Department emails were obtained by the Center for Reproductive Rights, which sued the Trump administration over its decision to destroy at least $10 million worth of reproductive health products being stored at a warehouse in Belgium. The products…...
Conservative pundit slurs pastor for adopting Black daughter: 'Actively evil"
1+ week, 4+ day ago (46+ words) Conservative commentator John Podhoretz called a pastor "actively evil" for expressing concerns about his interracial family while the future of birthright citizenship was still uncertain.Right-wing pastor Joel Webbon posted the concerns on June 29 on X alongside a photo of…...
Increased death threats against abortion providers pinned on Trump pardons: report
1+ mon, 3+ week ago (51+ words) A decision by Donald Trump to hand out pardons to nearly two dozen anti-choice activists convicted under the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act (FACE Act) has opened the floodgates to more protests outside women’s health clinics and physical…...
This ghastly nightmare was meant as a warning. It became the GOP's mission
1+ mon, 3+ week ago (380+ words) They may call themselves the “Pro-Life Party,” but the GOP certainly doesn’t act like it. They claim to be “Pro-” a lot of other things as well: family, faith, women, and above all else, children. In the Upside Down of…...
'The president is the problem': Influential conservatives shift blame to Trump
2+ mon, 1+ week ago (489+ words) Increasingly “frustrated” that the president has not followed up his campaign promises with action, the head of one of the most prominent anti-abortion groups complained to the Wall Street Journal that the president has become an obstacle to their goal…...
MAGA senator declares war on RFK as pro-lifers mutiny
3+ mon, 1+ week ago (207+ words) Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) fired off an angry letter to Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on Thursday, slamming the department's move to restore certain health grants to Planned Parenthood. Hawley, a constitutional lawyer by training and one…...
'Slap in the face': Conservatives aghast as White House restores Planned Parenthood funds
3+ mon, 1+ week ago (261+ words) Anti-abortion Republicans expressed outrage after the White House said it was restoring Biden-era Planned Parenthood grants. White House officials told conservative outlet The Daily Wire that the funding was being restored due to legal challenges. According to the report, funds…...
Republican presidents send maternal deaths soaring when they take office: study
3+ mon, 2+ week ago (212+ words) When Republican presidents take power in the United States, women around the world die at higher rates during pregnancy and childbirth, according to a new peer-reviewed study. Research published in BMJ Global Health found that global family planning aid drops…...
'We want to crucify him': Hegseth's pastor delivers dark threat to Dem Senate candidate
3+ mon, 3+ week ago (231+ words) Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's pastor threatened a leading Democrat in the Texas Senate primary race during a recent podcast interview, according to a report. Brooks Pottegier, who preaches at Pilgrim Hill Reformed Fellowship in a suburb outside of Nashville, Tennessee,…...
Red state GOP pushes abortion ban with possible death penalty: 'God demands equal justice"
4+ mon, 1+ week ago (875+ words) Wes Groggins didn’t mince words when he testified to a Missouri Senate committee Monday in support of legislation expanding legal protections for embryos. The executive director of Abolish Abortion Missouri invoked the Bible’s Old Testament in his justification that anyone…...