Kaiser Family Foundation polling found that 75 percent of voters opposed the GOP provision defunding Planned Parenthood. Only 22 percent were in favor.
In 2012, Uruguay changed its law to allow abortions up to 12 weeks of pregnancy. But a judge's ruling that a woman could not have an abortion without her ex-partner's consent sets a dangerous and possibly globally influential precedent valuing the fetus and father's wishes over those of the pregnant person.
Congressional Republicans plan to halt Medicaid reimbursements to “prohibited entities"—and Planned Parenthood is the only organization that qualifies.
Lt. Gov. Ralph Northam, who opposed GOP anti-choice measures as a state senator, touted a new initiative to expand access to long-acting reversible contraceptives in Virginia.
"Is it the will of a compassionate God to mandate that young girls who have been raped carry to term resulting pregnancies?" asked theologian María Lopez Vigil at a talk organized by advocates.
