The issuing of this statement signified to me that those of us who are angry and scared for Ohio's women, children, and families are not alone, and that our fears about abortion being outlawed are not irrational.
Nancy Northup, president and CEO of the Center for Reproductive Rights, said the GOP-backed rules mandating the burial or cremation of embryonic and fetal tissue are an "insult to Texas women."
"Ladies, your uteruses will be fine,” claimed the host on Thursday, apparently attempting to gloss over the abysmal record on reproductive rights and health espoused by the president-elect, the vice-president elect, and the motley crew of anti-choice hardliners they’ve lined up for their cabinet.
Earlier in his life, Andrew Puzder was also well-known for his work as an anti-choice attorney. In the 1980s, he helped author a sweeping piece of anti-choice legislation in Missouri that included radical “personhood” language defining life as beginning at conception.
If Gov. Terry Branstad is confirmed as ambassador, Republican Lt. Gov. Kim Reynolds will replace him as Iowa governor. Reynolds has said if abortion is criminalized, the punishment "would be equivalent to murder."
The Alliance for Defending Freedom (ADF) has claimed Minnesota's Human Rights Act could be used to unfairly target businesses who might hypothetically want to deny services to same-sex couples on religious grounds.
House Speaker Paul Ryan has praised the GOP-led investigation that has attacked Planned Parenthood, abortion care providers, researchers who use fetal tissue to potentially cure life-threatening diseases, and a private company that helps procure tissue donation for medical research.
Meadows has worked tirelessly to roll back access to reproductive health care. He co-sponsored measures such as the U.S. House of Representatives' medically and scientifically unsupported fetal pain bill.
Until Tuesday, Ohio Republicans had advanced total abortion bans in the house, but not the state senate, over fears that the law would be struck down in federal court.
