“Mike Coffman said he doesn’t know if Donald Trump is a sexual predator,” Karen Middleton, director of NARAL Pro-Choice Colorado, said in a statement. “Colorado women do. Grabbing a woman’s body without her consent is the definition of sexual assault. This is not difficult.”
The GOP-backed law imposed a new hurdle on abortion clinics. It allowed the director of the state Medicaid program, Arizona Health Care Cost Containment System, to exclude any facility that fails “to segregate taxpayer dollars from abortions, including the use of taxpayer dollars for any overhead expenses attributable to abortions.”
“That anybody who holds elected office in the state of Missouri would weigh optics over accountability is disturbing, at best, and alarming," said Pamela Merritt, the St. Louis-based co-founder of the direct action group Reproaction.
Myron Thompson, a senior judge at the District Court for the Middle District of Alabama, issued a preliminary injunction, ruling that the laws are likely to be found unconstitutional, reported Reuters.
Philanthropic institutions that are supposed to serve the greater good in their geographic region are essentially acting as tax-exempt conduits for private donors to bankroll organizations that undermine women’s health, some of which have been shown to flout city and state laws. And the foundations don’t regard this as a problem.
The Midwestern state's governor's contest is between two candidates who say they are "pro-life," and reproductive rights advocates are wondering how closely either will follow in the footsteps of former Gov. Mike Pence.
The Night writer, who died in July, denounced the abortion-Holocaust comparison as “blasphemy.” But he rejected the rhetoric with his trademark balance of passion and commitment to responsible dialogue.
Catholic health system mergers have alarmed reproductive rights advocates, as these hospitals routinely deny medical care, citing Catholic doctrine as justification.
