Tag: abortion
Abortion bans impede efforts to address domestic violence: An alarming consequence
The very doctors who play a crucial role in identifying and assisting victims of intimate partner violence, namely OB-GYNs, are facing increasing challenges in providing this essential care.
Landmark triumph in Ohio: Voters powerfully cement abortion rights in state...
In a remarkable assertion of progressive values, Ohio voters have firmly anchored the right to abortion within the bedrock of their state constitution, signaling a clear directive to policy makers and setting a precedent for the nation.
Resisting abortion bans a year after Dobbs
A nurse midwife discusses how health care providers and movements connect in the fight for reproductive justice after the upending of abortion rights.
Extremists want to ban discussing their abortion bans
Thirty-nine years later, here comes a clique of theocratic extremists in our country using Orwellian manipulation in its crusade to take control over every woman’s personal reproductive rights.
Oklahoma Supreme Court rules two GOP abortion bans are unconstitutional
Nine justices ruled that the Oklahoma Constitution guarantees the "inherent right of a pregnant woman to terminate a pregnancy when necessary to preserve her life."
Florida to ban abortion after six weeks of pregnancy
The Center for Reproductive Rights argues that the new bill is a health hazard to many women.
Abortion bans are part of GOP plan to disempower working class:...
"The loss of abortion rights means the loss of economic security, independence, and mobility for millions of people."
House GOP begins march toward nationwide abortion ban with two ‘absurd’...
"The GOP is using these dangerous lies to try to pass anti-choice bills that harm pregnant people and their families."
Hard to imagine 2023 with the same irreplaceable, mind-bending blessings as...
Whatever its unvarnished horror, 2022 looks to go down as marking baby steps in the right direction.
Proposed GOP bill would ban abortions at federal level
"Protecting Pain-Capable Unborn Children from Late-Term Abortions Act" would leave state bans that are more restrictive in place, but outlaw state bans that allowed abortions after 15 weeks.
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DNC approach to Israel is political malpractice and moral failure
On no issue is that more apparent than the DNC’s insistence on treating Israel as above serious reproach.
The US bombs kids so Palmer Luckey can have nice things
Because for every bomb the U.S. and Israel drop, a bunch of men in cushy offices profit off all the death.
‘You can’t live without us’: How Big Oil pivoted from climate-friendly messaging to normalize...
More than 1,500 independent advertising agencies and 4,000 individual creatives have signed Clean Creatives’ pledge to refuse future fossil fuel contracts.
Oil regulators found hundreds of wells violating Oklahoma rules. Then they ignored their findings.
Oklahoma took on an ambitious project to catalog all of the state’s injection wells, which shoot toxic waste generated by oil drilling back into the ground. Despite records showing risk of drinking water pollution, the state chose not to act.
Thanks, MAGA, for exposing six corrosive myths that plague America—if we survive!
So kudos to today’s rightwing bellicosity for making clear the U.S. unilaterally wields deadly, rapacious power, whether sensible or stupid or gratuitous.