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Patty Murray Rips Into Brett Kavanaugh From the Senate Floor

"Today I want to ... paint a picture of how much more unequal life would be for women in the United States of America should Judge Kavanaugh be confirmed."

Federal Judge Sides With New York Anti-Choice Protesters, Dismissing Clinic Workers’ Testimony as ‘Unreliable’

Auditi Guha

Federal Judge Carol Bagley Amon "diminished, she negated, she threw under the bus every lived experience of the staff, myself, and the escorts," said clinic founder Merle Hoffman.

[Photo: A woman walks past a Walmart shopping cart]

Walmart Accused of Unlawfully Punishing Pregnant Hourly Workers

Nicole Knight

"Walmart must immediately change its policies to comply with this law and ensure that no pregnant worker is forced to choose between a healthy pregnancy and a pink slip."

[Photo: Alison Centofante speaks with Rep. Ron Estes]

Anti-Choice Democrats’ Convention Features Attacks on Planned Parenthood, NAACP

Madeleine Schmidt

“I’m trying to close Planned Parenthood down,” Democrats for Life of America Executive Director Kristen Day said. “I feel like they’re destroying the Democratic Party."

[Photo: Catholic bishops sit and listen during the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops]

Gavel Drop: It’s Now a Waiting Game in Texas ‘Fetal Burial’ Legal Showdown

Imani Gandy & Jessica Mason Pieklo

In other news, the U.S. Senate is getting around to confirming nominees for key Justice Department and appellate posts. And we wish it hadn't.

[Photo: Pro-Choice activists hold up signs that read

Scenario 3: The Right’s Incremental Push to Make Abortion Illegal, With Kavanaugh’s Help

David S. Cohen

While banning abortion outright is not supported at all by the law now and would absolutely not be the consequence of overruling Roe v. Wade, there will no doubt be efforts from the right to move that position into the mainstream of legal thought.

[Photo: Anti-Choice activists gather to demonstrate]

Anti-Choice Group Targets Homes and Neighbors of Indiana Abortion Providers

Teddy Wilson

A fellow with Physicians for Reproductive Health said the harassment and intimidation tactics used by anti-choice activists are "designed to evoke fear" in people who are targeted.

[Photo: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez speaks to the press]

‘Prairie Populism’: Ocasio-Cortez and Bernie Sanders Campaign for Kansas Democrats

Ally Boguhn

"What you’re seeing I think happening in Kansas with the kind of turnouts that you’re seeing at some of these events are a kind of grassroots uprising against the status quo, both in Democratic politics and in national politics writ large."

[Photo: President Donald Trump and Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar]

Lawsuit Seeks Information About Trump’s Secretive Health-Care Discrimination Division

Jessica Mason Pieklo

“This administration is prioritizing religious beliefs over patients’ access to care,” said Gretchen Borchelt, NWLC vice president for reproductive rights and health. “It’s a perversion of HHS’ mission that cannot be ignored.”

Planned Parenthood Has a History of Trying to Beat Back Labor Unions

Erin Heger

Few Planned Parenthood affiliates are unionized—and the ones that are allegedly faced pushback from management.

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