For more than two decades, the pharmaceutical mifepristone, used in tandem with misoprostol, has been allowing Americans to have safe and effective medication abortions at home, saving the expense and […]
Tag: anti-abortion
Abortion and the GOP
The Biden administration and Democrats generally are under water in polling that has consistently shown voters are displeased with their performance on the economy, foreign policy and virtually everything else […]
Conservatives are targeting IVF
by Michael Frerichs The new battlefield over abortion rights centers on the use of in vitro fertilization. It’s a battle that is highly personal for me and my wife, Erica. […]
The Good, the Bad and the Stupid 7
Good: SB 740 and SB 471 — both of which deal with digital technology and child pornography. SB 740 would make it illegal to use digital manipulation to alter any […]
Would you expect a firefighter to run into a fire to save a frozen embryo?
by Robin Abcarian The bizarre decision handed down last week by the Alabama Supreme Court, which ruled that frozen human embryos are people too, is the reductio ad absurdum of […]
Abortion access is popular. Legislators want to ban it entirely
There is a vocal group of extreme anti-abortion West Virginians, but despite their outsized presence in the Capitol’s halls, they are a statistical minority. Several polls show West Virginians support […]
Two key antiabortion studies retracted as junk science. Will SCOTUS care?
by Michael Hiltzik If the effort to ban medication abortion now before the Supreme Court demonstrates anything, it’s that the damage caused in our society by junk science can be […]
Democrats and abortion: Bring it on
With the economy, the border and foreign policy not working for them in this election cycle, Democrats are counting on the abortion issue to save their hides in November. Sen. […]
SB 468: Anti-abortion propaganda in schools
The West Virginia Senate is advancing a bill that would force schools to show students an anti-abortion propaganda film produced by an extreme “pro-life” group that became infamous for secretly […]
The Good, the Bad and the Stupid 10
For today’s edition of The Good, the Bad and the Stupid,” we’re going to look at a handful of bills that we consider to be mixed bags: They have both […]
