The inauguration of Donald Trump has sparked renewed fears over the future of reproductive rights in the United States. As the new administration begins its term, liberals across the country have started stockpiling contraception, including Plan B, amid concerns that access to reproductive healthcare could be severely restricted. Adding to the anxiety, the government website … Read more
President Joe Biden announced on Friday that, as far as he’s concerned, the Equal Rights Amendment is the “law of the land,” a somewhat symbolic move that is poised to allow more women across the country to sue their states for gender discrimination—including challenges to abortion bans. The ERA, originally drafted over a century ago … Read more
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
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
Valdamar Archuleta built the platform for his long-shot run against U.S. Rep. Diana DeGette to represent Denver in Congress in part on what voters told him they cared about. The first plank of what the Republican hopeful calls his “commitment to Denver” is focused on his strategies for reducing the cost of living — specifically … Read more
Abortion is a hot topic in the November election at multiple levels, but particularly on the Colorado ballot, which features Amendment 79 — a proposed change that would enshrine the state’s abortion protections in the state constitution. The fate of abortion access is currently determined by the states following the 2022 overturning of Roe v. … Read more
Before Eva Burch and I walked into her home in Mesa, Arizona, she checked on the birds nesting right outside her door. Still in her scrubs from working as a nurse practitioner and without much time before her night shift duties as a mom of two boys, she sat down at her kitchen table to … Read more
Vice President Kamala Harris hasn’t given many long-form interviews during her presidential campaign but during an appearance on the Call Her Daddy podcast, she discussed reproductive rights, and dismissed criticisms about not having biological children. In response to jabs from JD Vance about “childless cat ladies,” or Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders slamming Harris for … Read more
ATLANTA (AP) — Republican JD Vance and Democrat Tim Walz will meet Tuesday in the lone vice presidential debate of the 2024 election, bringing together undercards who have spent two months going after each other and the opposing nominees who top the major-party tickets. The matchup, hosted by CBS News in New York, might not … Read more
If you like your progressive politics with a side of Millennial nostalgia, has Kamala Harris got just the Thursday plans for you. Sophia Bush and Busy Philipps will be on board Harris’s Reproductive Freedom Bus for an event in Charlotte, North Carolina, on Thursday, according to a source familiar with the planning. Bush and Philipps … Read more
