Judge strikes down Wyoming abortion ban, including explicit ban on pills

Judge strikes down Wyoming abortion ban, including explicit ban on pills

CHEYENNE, Wyoming —  A state judge on Monday struck down Wyoming’s overall ban on abortion and its first-in-the-nation explicit prohibition on the use of medication to end pregnancy. Since 2022, Teton County District Judge Melissa Owens has ruled consistently three times to block the laws while they were disputed in court. The decision marks another … Read more

In Lakewood speech, Mike Pence warns of ‘populists,’ says he congratulated Trump

In Lakewood speech, Mike Pence warns of ‘populists,’ says he congratulated Trump

Former Vice President Mike Pence warned against “populists” seeking sway over conservative politics during a Friday speech at Colorado Christian University, and he called for a defense of “traditional” conservative values on foreign policy, abortion and marriage. Pence’s speech at CCU, a small conservative school in Lakewood, came 10 days after his former running mate, … Read more

Women suing Idaho over abortion ban detail perilous pregnancies

Women suing Idaho over abortion ban detail perilous pregnancies

By Rebecca Boone | Associated Press BOISE, Idaho — Four women suing over Idaho’s strict abortion bans told a judge Tuesday how excitement over their pregnancies turned to grief and fear after they learned their fetuses were not likely to survive to birth — and how they had to leave the state to get abortions … Read more

Analyzing women’s votes in the 2024 election and beyond

Analyzing women’s votes in the 2024 election and beyond

Analyzing women’s votes in the 2024 election and beyond – CBS News Watch CBS News Fewer women voted for Vice President Kamala Harris in the 2024 election than they did for President Biden in 2020. So what happened with the female vote? Lindsay Chervinsky, executive director of the George Washington Presidential Library, joins CBS News … Read more

Várhelyi vows to champion women’s rights as he pursues EU health chief job – POLITICO

Várhelyi vows to champion women’s rights as he pursues EU health chief job – POLITICO

He came under fire after the hearing especially for his comments about women, including his suggestion that he was “an ally of women” because he lives with his wife and has three daughters. Renew MEP Stine Bosse said she was “wholly unconvinced” that Várhelyi is the “right guardian of women’s rights,” while some MEPs suggested … Read more

La Cocina movie director on story of immigrant dreams set in New York restaurant kitchen

La Cocina movie director on story of immigrant dreams set in New York restaurant kitchen

Immigration, abortion and the eternal search for the American dream make up the ingredients of La Cocina, a new film that examines the United States’ most divisive issues through the microcosm of a New York restaurant kitchen. The tense, claustrophobic drama stars Oscar nominee Rooney Mara (The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo) as an American … Read more

Mark Driscoll says ‘there are no pro-choice Christians in Heaven’

Mark Driscoll says ‘there are no pro-choice Christians in Heaven’

By Leonardo Blair, Senior Reporter Thursday, October 31, 2024 Pastor Mark Driscoll (L) and Pastor Dwight McKissic (R) | X/Mark Driscoll; Screengrab/YouTube/Southwestern Seminary; Prominent evangelical leader and founding pastor of Trinity Church in Scottsdale, Arizona, Mark Driscoll, called abortion “genocide” and recently said that pro-choice Christians won’t go to Heaven. Outspoken Southern Baptist Dwight McKissic, … Read more

In Ten States, Millions of Americans Are Directly Voting On Abortion Access

In Ten States, Millions of Americans Are Directly Voting On Abortion Access

Nebraska prohibits abortion at 12 weeks, with stated exceptions for rape, incest, or “to avert her death or to avert serious risk of substantial and irreversible physical impairment of a major bodily function.” Nevada Nevada’s Question 6, titled the Right to Abortion Initiative, would establish a state constitutional right to an abortion, while allowing the … Read more

Colorado Catholic groups give $225,000 to fight against Amendment 79

Colorado Catholic groups give 5,000 to fight against Amendment 79

The Archdiocese of Denver and a nonprofit representing the state’s Catholic bishops have contributed $225,000 to a Colorado anti-abortion group in its fight against Amendment 79, which would enshrine abortion rights in the state’s constitution. The Pro-Life Colorado Fund, a coalition of more than 50 anti-abortion groups, received $175,000 on Oct. 22 from the Denver … Read more

DeSantis using state money, time and his power to fight abortion rights measure

DeSantis using state money, time and his power to fight abortion rights measure

The ballot measure is one of nine similar ones across the country, but the campaign over it is the most expensive so far, with ads costing about $160 million, according to the media tracking firm AdImpact. Originally Published: October 21, 2024 at 5:12 p.m. Read original article here Denial of responsibility! Pioneer Newz is an … Read more