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

How does Colorado keep noncitizens and dead people from voting?

How does Colorado keep noncitizens and dead people from voting?

As the election draws nearer, Coloradans have a lot of questions around voting — about how the process works and, also, what protections are there to ensure ineligible people aren’t casting ballots. It’s a perennial concern in every election, but one that has heated up this year, that somehow large numbers of noncitizens — and … Read more

Snow In July, Hurricane Outages And The CrowdStrike Outage In This Week’s Beyond Cars Roundup

Snow In July, Hurricane Outages And The CrowdStrike Outage In This Week’s Beyond Cars Roundup

Photo: Justin Sullivan / Staff (Getty Images) Hurricane Beryl caused some significant power outages in Houston, and with temperatures in the 90s, it’s a dangerous, miserable situation all around. It’s bad enough that many utility workers came in from out of state to assist with the attempts to restore power across the city. Instead of … Read more

Abortion Was Scarcely Mentioned in RNC Speeches Despite Coordinated Republican Effort to Roll Back Protections

Abortion Was Scarcely Mentioned in RNC Speeches Despite Coordinated Republican Effort to Roll Back Protections

The Republican National Convention speaker lineup was chock-full of leaders who have historically not been shy about their anti-abortion views—yet, the speeches this year were remarkably silent on the topic of reproductive care access altogether. In his 2020 RNC nomination acceptance speech, then-president Donald Trump touted common anti-abortion myths, saying that Democrats support, “the extreme … Read more

La. legislature classifies abortion pill as controlled substance

La. legislature classifies abortion pill as controlled substance

By Sara Cline | Associated Press BATON ROUGE, La. — Two abortion-inducing drugs could soon be reclassified as controlled and dangerous substances in Louisiana under a first-of-its-kind bill that received final legislative passage Thursday and is expected to be signed into law by the governor. Supporters of the reclassification of mifepristone and misoprostol, commonly known … Read more