The law requires the state’s licensed pregnancy-related centers to display a brief statement with a number to call for access to free and low-cost birth control and abortion care.
New research upends a widely held belief in the anti-choice movement that women feel conflicted about abortion care and need state-assisted intervention, including forced waiting periods and mandatory counseling.
"As a student who relies on the Wellness Center for health care, it makes me furious that they’re not providing medically accurate information," Melissa Haggerty, 21, told Rewire.
“Donald Trump's words degraded and insulted women in the most flagrant possible way, and yet Hillary Clinton's policy is to allow the murder of a half a million little tiny women every year," Franks said in an interview with CNN's Erin Burnett.
The 2009 ordinance requires a so-called limited-service pregnancy center to post a disclaimer in its waiting room notifying clients that it “does not provide or make referral for abortion or birth-control services.”
“The substantial expense of successfully bringing this fight to the U.S. Supreme Court is just one consequence of Texas’ decision to defend this sham law, which denied women their basic rights and shuttered clinics that are still struggling to reopen,” said Nancy Northup, president and CEO of the Center for Reproductive Rights. The center's attorneys “dedicated thousands of hours” to the legal fight against the unconstitutional measures of HB 2.
The Republican running in what’s widely seen as Colorado’s closest state senate race aligns with Trump in opposing abortion rights and taking a hard line on immigration. She has called Trump the "people's candidate."
What took so long for members of the GOP to try to "dump Trump?" The answer lies in the deep pathologies of the GOP agenda, which are shaped in turn by the fundamentalist corporate and religious forces that now control the party, and a shared Madonna-Whore approach to women foundational to the GOP platform.
