We’re not fans of special legislative sessions (which you already know if you regularly read our editorials). However, every once in a blue moon, they can be justified, and the concurrent May interims and special session showed that they can be done responsibly, without abusing taxpayer ...
by Mary Ellen Klas Florida abortion providers began turning patients away from their clinics this week, even before the state’s six-week ban took effect Wednesday. The state’s mandatory 24-hour waiting period, combined with the ban, effectively ended 50 years of reproductive ...
The news can leave you depressed and politics can send your blood pressure through the roof — which is why most people tune out both. (If you’re reading this, you’re probably an exception.) We can rarely avoid the endless campaign ads on TV and radio, so every election season, we get ...
MORGANTOWN – The state Senate enthusiastically passed a bill on Wednesday to elevate the state Culture and History curator to cabinet secretary. It also moved bills concerning abortion, pregnancy, zoning and more. Randall Reid-Smith is the longtime curator of the Department of Culture ...
by Francis Wilkinson The Pennsylvania Supreme Court delivered a victory to abortion-rights advocates in directing a lower court to consider a challenge to the state’s 1982 prohibition on Medicaid funding for abortions in cases other than rape and incest. The 3-2 decision was widely ...
Lawmakers can do more to protect women I fail to understand how our Legislature continues to get it so wrong! The women of West Virginia should be protected from sexual assault in their marriages, not have sane nurses removed from our hospitals. We need you to help us feed our ...