Texas Senate set for filibuster finale on abortion
A sweeping bill that would effectively shut down most abortion clinics across the nation’s second most-populous state has stalled in the Texas Senate, and a Democratic filibuster that will only need to...
View ArticleMost Action in Senate on Special Session's Final Day
… put only redistricting legislation on the special session agenda. He later added three more issues, including abortion. With less than 24 hours to go, the fate of multiple items on the agenda lies in...
View ArticleTexas abortion law passes House, but Dems lurk in wings with stalling strategy
The Texas abortion law, which was passed by the Republicans in the Texas House on Monday, is considered one of the nation’s most wide-ranging packages of abortion restrictions, according to “Fox and...
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Justices Alito and Kennedy Mansplain Away Your Rights
It’s hardly a surprise that a society that fundamentally denies and perpetuates rape culture would produce Supreme Court justices who can’t grasp the basic dynamics of co-worker power plays and...
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Lawsuit Filed Challenging North Dakota Pre-Viability Ban
The Center for Reproductive Rights filed a lawsuit in federal court Tuesday arguing that two North Dakota laws, one banning abortion as early as six weeks of pregnancy—before some women even know they...
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North Dakota Petition Drive Sponsor: State’s Only Abortion Clinic...
In the wake of multiple abortion restrictions passed in North Dakota during the 2013 legislative session, Gary Hangsleben, an anti-choice activist in the state, spearheaded a committee focused on...
View ArticleYour Politicians' Assault on Women's Rights
… occupied with taking reproductive control away from Wisconsin’s women. Part of an array of bills to chip away at abortion rights, Senate Bill 206 does two things. It stipulates that the physicians at...
View ArticleAbortion issue goes down to the wire at Texas Legislature
The clock is ticking, and the whole world is watching as the Texas abortion debate takes center stage at the State Capitol.
View ArticleFilibuster Could Halt Texas Abortion Bill Vote
The clock is ticking toward a vote in the Texas Senate on strict abortion regulations.
View ArticleCaught on tape: Antiabortion center resorts to scary, dangerous lies
… and then take this pill and it causes a period to come on or something, or bleeding. It’s like having kind of an abortion.” She adds, “That could harm you. It really could harm you You could...
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Rick Perry Calls Second Special Session for Round Two of Abortion Bill Fight
See all our coverage of SB 5 here. After state Sen. Wendy Davis’ epic filibuster ran out the clock on the Texas legislature’s first special session on Tuesday, Republican Gov. Rick Perry has called a...
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How the Voting Rights Act Gave Us Wendy Davis’ Filibuster
When the Supreme Court effectively demolished the Voting Rights Act (VRA) this week, you’d have been right to think that the decision, penned by Chief Justice John Roberts, was a major setback for...
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Markey Wins Massachusetts Special Election
Democratic Massachusetts Congressman Ed Markey won Tuesday’s special election, keeping the balance of power in the Senate unchanged. Senator-elect Markey beat Republican rival Gabriel Gomez, a...
View ArticleJonah Goldberg
Why not? Maybe it’s because whatever you think of abortion, the right to have one is not synonymous with a woman’s health.
View ArticlePro-choice groups delivered 17,000 letters to the governor's office
Abortion-rights supporters are protesting restrictions on the procedure slipped into the state budget at the last minute.
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Why Justice Alito May Be the Most Dangerous Man on the Bench
In Windsor v. United States, the Supreme Court invalidated a provision of the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) that denies federal marriage benefits to same-sex couples. Justice Anthony Kennedy’s...
View ArticleShort on reason and comprehension
… last week (June 21), in response to the Sectoral Debate presentation by the minister of youth, I wrote that abortion was a ‘Plan to kill poor black people’. I drew no reference to religion at all,...
View ArticleKansas Waits For Court Rulings On New Abortion Law
A sweeping anti-abortion law is scheduled to take effect Monday. It bans sex-selection abortions, blocks tax breaks for abortion providers and prohibits them from furnishing materials or instructors...
View ArticleAbortion provisions in Ohio budget protested
Representatives of Planned Parenthood and like-minded lawmakers are urging Gov. John Kasich to use his gubernatorial power to strike abortion-related provisions from the $62 billion biennial budget.
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Court Rules Hobby Lobby Can Be Considered a Religious ‘Person’
Religious conservatives are one step closer to convincing the federal judiciary to shield corporations by granting them religious rights, thanks to new reasoning in a decision handed down Thursday in...
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