Brie Shea

Brie Shea

Brie Shea was a legal research associate for Rewire.News, where she covered state and federal anti-choice and anti-LGBTQ legislation.

Previously, Brie worked as an analyst with Boeing, Defense Space and Security. She holds a Master’s in Intelligence Studies from American Military University and and a BA in International Security & Conflict Resolution from San Diego State.

[Photo: Pro-choice protesters hold up signs during a rally.]

Legislative Lowlights: Misinformation Abounds in Latest Round of Anti-Choice Laws

Brie Shea

From bills about Down syndrome to "born alive" legislation, GOP lawmakers continue to advance measures based on common anti-choice propaganda.

Legislative Lowlights: Total Abortion Bans Are Flying Through State Legislatures

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Republicans' total abortion bans, supported by anti-choice Democratic lawmakers, keep running into legal roadblocks.

Legislative Lowlights: Texas GOP Finds New and Inventive Ways to Legalize LGBTQ Discrimination

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Meanwhile, Utah Republicans want to control how educators talk about contraception, and GOP legislators in Oklahoma continue to push the anti-choice myth of abortion "reversal."

[Photo: Georgia state Capitol building.]

Legislative Lowlights: Republicans Advance Blatantly Unconstitutional Abortion Bills

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GOP-dominated legislatures are approving measures that have been deemed unconstitutional, while Rhode Island Democrats push an anti-choice bill.

[Photo: Arkansas Governor Asa Hutchinson stands on stage, looking stern, prior to the start of an event.]

Legislative Lowlights: Abortion Restrictions Sweep Through GOP-Held Legislatures

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Arkansas Republicans are ensuring legal abortion will end in the state should Roe v. Wade fall, while GOP lawmakers in Missouri push a so-called fetal heartbeat abortion ban.

[Photo: House of Representatives chamber of the Kansas State Capitol.]

Legislative Lowlights: Republicans Use Secular Humanism to Attack LGBTQ Rights

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State-level GOP lawmakers are taking policy advice from an electronic dance music producer who wants to ban same-sex marriage in the United States.

[Photo: Anti-abortion activists protest in front of the Supreme Court as part of the 'March for Life.']

Legislative Lowlights: Lawmakers in Ten States Have Introduced ‘Heartbeat’ Bans This Year

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And in Maryland, state Republicans introduced not one, but three, so-called heartbeat bans.

[Photo: House of Representatives chamber of the Missouri State Capitol.]

Legislative Lowlights: Missouri Conservatives Won’t Stop Introducing Anti-Choice Restrictions

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Conservatives in Missouri are unsatisfied with the roughly 20 anti-choice restrictions they have to consider this session, so last week they added a few more to the mix.

[Photo: A number of voters at their respective voting booths.]

Legislative Lowlights: Lawmakers in Four States Want to Bring Fetal ‘Personhood’ to the Ballot Box

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Republicans in Iowa, Mississippi, Missouri, and Montana want voters to weigh in on state constitutional amendments for fetal "personhood."

[PHOTO: An anti-choice activist demonstrates in front of the US Supreme Court.]

Legislative Lowlights: Total Abortion Bans Proposed in Colorado, Indiana, and Texas Last Week

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Meanwhile, Oklahoma state Sen. Joseph Silk prefiled another ridiculous piece of legislation to restrict abortion.

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