The moment Ruth Bader Ginsburg died, I knew Roe’s days were numbered. Sometime in 2019, a conservative friend texted me that Donald Trump was saving Amy Coney Barrett for when RBG dies. Sure enough, Trump tapped Coney Barrett shortly after trailblazing justice’s death, with Mitch McConnell steamrolling the nomination through the Senate just ahead of … Read more
COLUMBUS, Ohio — Ohio was in the throes of a bitter debate over abortion rights this fall when Brittany Watts, 21 weeks and 5 days pregnant, began passing thick blood clots. The 33-year-old Watts, who had not shared the news of her pregnancy even with her family, made her first prenatal visit to a doctor’s … Read more
From Barbie to Bud Light influencers to a bizarre fantasy of his own making involving “Mickey and Pluto going at it,” Ted Cruz rarely misses an opportunity to weigh in on an issue he thinks will score him some air time on Fox News and ingratiate him to the right. But apparently, even Senator “Gelatinous … Read more
Arizona Supreme Court hears arguments over re-imposing state’s 1864 near-total abortion ban – CBS News Watch CBS News The Arizona Supreme Court on Tuesday began hearing arguments in a case that could re-impose a nearly 160-year-old law banning nearly all abortions, with exceptions for the life and health of the mother. CBS News’ Janet Shamlian … Read more
The Texas Supreme Court temporarily halted a district court order on Friday that would have allowed a Texas woman carrying a fetus with a fatal condition to obtain an abortion, following a request from state’s Attorney General Ken Paxton. Kate Cox, 31, a mother of two young children in the Dallas area, is 20 weeks … Read more
In the nineteenth century, when a character had premarital sex, you held your breath not for an abortion but for a wedding. Think of “Pride and Prejudice,” where Lydia’s child marriage comes as a great relief. The marriage plot relegates the actual having of children to the last page, just after the rice is thrown … Read more
Texas Supreme Court temporarily halts ruling allowing Dallas woman to have abortion Texas Supreme Court temporarily halts ruling allowing Dallas woman to have abortion 00:40 The Texas Supreme Court late Friday temporarily stayed a lower court ruling that would have allowed a woman whose fetus has been diagnosed with what doctors say is a fatal … Read more
A Texas judge on Thursday granted the request of a pregnant woman—who was diagnosed with a nonviable pregnancy that has sent her to the emergency room four times—to undergo an abortion. The ruling came in spite of Texas’s near-total ban on the medical procedure, and while obviously welcome news for the woman in question, underscores … Read more
