Five Democrats are vying for their party’s nomination to fill the congressional vacancy left by Mike Pompeo, the new director of the Central Intelligence Agency and former GOP representative for the 4th Congressional District. One of them is deeply anti-choice.
With Jeff Sessions confirmed Wednesday as the new U.S. attorney general, there is slim hope that clinics can rely on the Justice Department to enforce policies fighting anti-choice terrorism.
Senate Judiciary Committee Republicans in Sessions’ confirmation hearings largely dismissed his abysmal record on a broad range of rights—including voting, reproductive, and LGBTQ rights, all of which are intertwined.
In positioning two characters—a slain abortion provider and his killer—as equally culpable in their intersecting tragedies, Oates misses an important chance to denounce those who believe they have the right to impose their morality on the rest of us.
A Republican bill directs doctors to check for "evidence of life" during the abortion procedure. Cases of abortion care producing a live birth are exceedingly rare, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Black male judges such as Thurgood Marshall, state legislators, and physicians paved the way for legalized abortion, argued that the poor were hardest hit by restrictions, and made sure that women could get this essential care.
“If we do not get federal reimbursement for the care we provide, our health centers will close,” Beth Parker, chief legal counsel of Planned Parenthood Affiliates of California, wrote in comments that she provided to Rewire. “Our patients will have nowhere to go.”
Democrats, a former Iowa Republican official, and reproductive rights advocates said defunding Planned Parenthood would have grave consequences for thousands of Iowans.
If former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley's track record is any guide, we can anticipate she will advance the Trump administration’s ambition to eviscerate access to the full range of reproductive choices, both at home and globally.
