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Why Everyone Will Bring Ken Paxton’s Abortion Record Up in His Senate Race
1+ hour, 40+ min ago (970+ words) This story was originally reported by Shefali Luthra of The 19th. Meet Shefali and read more of their reporting on gender, politics and policy. Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is so staunchly anti-abortion that his office observes June 24, the anniversary of…...
5th Circuit Pulls a 5th Circuit on Abortion Pill
2+ mon, 1+ week ago (679+ words) A lot of things happened. Here are some of the things. This is TPM’s Morning Memo. UPDATE: The Supreme Court on Monday morning issued administrative stays in both of the weekend’s appeals from mifepristone manufacturers, meaning that the 5th Circuit Court…...
An Anti-Obamacare Amendment Just Saved Abortion In Wyoming
6+ mon, 1+ week ago (383+ words) The Wyoming Supreme Court knocked down two abortion restrictions Tuesday — one of which is the nation’s first targeted ban of abortion pills — finding that they violate the state constitution. Specifically, the 4-1 majority found that the laws violated the constitution’s “right…...
RFK Jr. Signals Brewing Attack On Abortion Pill Mifepristone
10+ mon, 1+ week ago (805+ words) Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. claimed Thursday to a Senate committee that the Biden administration had hidden evidence of the danger of the abortion drug mifepristone — an age-old anti-abortion smear that gives the movement pretext to make…...
Trump Breaks His Campaign Promise to Fund IVF
11+ mon, 1+ week ago (667+ words) President Donald Trump is no longer planning to require the government or insurance carriers to cover the cost of in vitro fertilization, the Washington Post reports, despite having promised during the 2024 campaign he would do so. This judicial embrace of…...
Conservatives Notch 2 Victories in Their Fight to Deny Planned Parenthood Funding
1+ year, 1+ week ago (1393+ words) Conservatives have won two important battles in their decades-long campaign against Planned Parenthood, a network of affiliated clinics that are the largest provider of reproductive health services in the U.S. Because Medicaid covers nearly 80 million Americans, this bill, and the Supreme…...