With Obamacare under attack by the Trump administration and congressional Republicans, state legislators are emerging as defenders of the health-care law's no-copay requirement on contraceptives.
A Democratic aide warned that HHS appointees' “history of spreading misinformation” about abortion care and birth control “could be replicated now that they’re working in these official capacities.”
Democrats in the state Senate must stop training their fire on each other, ceding control to Republicans, and pretending it's someone else's job to build a progressive majority.
Protecting abortion access for her, especially as conservatives try to push the definition of "life" earlier and earlier, feels just as immediately personal as fighting for my own bodily autonomy.