Search and arrest warrants recently unsealed in the case of accused Colorado Springs Planned Parenthood shooter Robert Lewis Dear Jr. paint a picture of a man increasingly obsessed with anti-abortion violence.
There's a long tradition of politicians and authority figures railing against reproductive health-care services, yet claiming the right to use them for their own benefit.
In a reversal from last year, Colorado lawmakers on Thursday approved a state budget that includes funds for a program credited with reducing the teen birth rate by 40 percent and the teen abortion rate by 35 percent.
The Republican-backed law contains numerous anti-choice measures, including forced counseling and mandatory ultrasounds for abortion patients, regulations on physicians who provide abortion care, and a ban on fetal tissue donation.
Medicaid's exclusionary regulations deny many low-income transgender people access to medically necessary health care, advocates say, and cause physical, mental, and economic harm.
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.
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.
