Republican legislators and anti-choice activists refuse to accept overwhelming evidence showing that abortion is an exceedingly safe medical procedure.
Johnny Wright Sol's action represents an attempt to break a legislative deadlock and bring together a coalition of legislators from various political parties in numbers sufficient to change the existing law, which bans abortion entirely.
The Ninth Circuit Court decided that fetal researchers who sued to prevent the Center for Medical Progress frontman from accessing their information need to make a better case about why releasing their data could be harmful.
In addition to other favorite, and false, Republican talking points on the health-care provider, Nevada Sen. Dean Heller now also falsely claims that the organization is funneling taxpayer dollars to campaign ads against “political enemies”—presumably including himself.
JoDee Winterhof, senior vice president for policy and political affairs at the Human Rights Campaign, said in a statement that Texans can “breathe a temporary sigh of relief."
It's more high-tech than holding signs and yelling. Opponents disrupt phone service, install wi-fi networks designed to confuse patients, and offer ultrasounds in RVs outside at least one clinic.
