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Tag: abortion
SCOTUS must reject efforts to ban mifepristone
A New Orleans federal appeals court has rejected ideologue Texas Federal Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk’s ruling against the Food and Drug Administration’s 2000 approval of the medication abortion […]
When will GOP get the message people want their abortion rights?
Here is the lesson from last Tuesday’s special election in Ohio, where voters resoundingly defeated a ballot measure that would have made it more difficult to pass […]
McCarthy appeases the radicals again
by Jonathan Bernstein The House bill that sets Pentagon policies for the next year, which began as mundane and bipartisan, passed on Friday on a party-line vote. […]
Blocking military promotions is unpatriotic
Alabama Sen. Tommy Tuberville misses few chances to tout both his career as a college football coach and his love for the military. It’s all the more […]
A declaration of non-independence — for women
by Carla Hall If men could get pregnant, the saying goes, the Declaration of Independence might well have declared that all men are endowed with the right […]
Leaving abortion to states not working
“It is time to heed the Constitution, and return the issue of abortion to the people’s elected representatives,” Justice Samuel Alito wrote in his ruling last June […]
Trump’s extremism on abortion cannot be hidden
Ron DeSantis had it coming, but Donald Trump’s attempts to paint the Florida governor as a scarier right-winger than he is deserve to fail. What DeSantis has […]
Texas abortion pill ruling threatens future pharmaceutical innovation
by Lisa Jarvis A Texas federal judge’s ruling to remove the 23-year-old drug mifepristone from the market not only threatens abortion access in the U.S. — it’s […]
Tennessee’s strict abortion law stopping woman from having more children
by Jennifer Shinall Over the New Year’s holiday, my husband and I received the surprise of our lives: a positive pregnancy test. The pregnancy was unplanned, but […]