The draft interim final rule echoes Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price’s belief that “there’s not one” woman who can’t afford birth control.
Advocating for access to abortion through an economic frame is ineffective and does nothing to advance the host of economic justice issues Democrats must also tackle.
A proposal in the U.K. Parliament would change a 19th-century criminal law that allows prosecution of people who end their own pregnancies. And in New York state, a bill moving through the legislature would remove abortion, including self-induced abortion, from the penal code.
The nation's highest court has signaled it will rule on Ohio's purges of its voter rolls, not too long after it issued an important decision that could influence how race and political party affect gerrymandering cases.
A group of U.S. Senate Democrats warned the White House "to abandon any proposal that would erode access to affordable preventive health care for women, including birth control."
"It works. It changes lives. And along the way it saves the state of Colorado a lot of money. I think that's a win, win, win for everybody," said Rep. Don Coram (R-Montrose).
A ruling Monday that Robert Lewis Dear Jr. remains not competent to stand trial means there are still few answers around the 2015 siege at a Colorado Planned Parenthood that left three dead.
Telemedicine could very well be the antidote to social conservatives’ attacks on reproductive rights—but only if states ease restrictions on who is allowed to perform medication abortion, and how.
