Taking Ted Cruz’s assertion that banning abortion should be a decision left up to voters at face value ignores the candidate's drumbeat of extremism on the topic.
Rep. Jason Dawkins (D-Philadelphia) said during the committee hearing that lawmakers had no place inserting themselves in a conversation between a pregnant person and a doctor. "If we put certain restrictions on a woman's choice, will they start looking for that other option?" Dawkins said.
Writing for the unanimous court, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg said Texas’ method of drawing districts based on total population was in line with “constitutional history, the court’s [previous] decisions and longstanding practice” of states drawing legislative districts based on total population.
“Our state is among the most difficult states in the nation for women to access abortion care .... With an overabundance of barriers and hoops to jump through, abortion has become nearly impossible to access for many women,” University of South Dakota senior Kerstin Tuttle wrote about the anti-choice measure just signed into law.
Accused Planned Parenthood shooter Robert Lewis Dear wants to plead "not guilty," and the Colorado Supreme Court wants to know what is in his arrest file.
The FDA's change to medication abortion guidelines undercuts other laws in Texas, Oklahoma, Ohio, and North Dakota that require physicians to follow the agency's 2000 label recommendation for mifepristone.
No matter how much the anti-choice movement dissembles, there is only one reality: The laws and policies pushed by the movement and the politicians it supports punish women both explicitly and implicitly.
Gov. Terry McAuliffe said the GOP funding restrictions were likely unconstitutional and noted that federal courts have struck down similar laws in North Carolina and Texas.
