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Apr 09 2024
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Arizona abortion ruling, which Democrats decry, splits Republicans and abortion opponents
Kari Lake said she opposes the decision but previously supported the law. The Arizona Supreme Court's decision on Tuesday to uphold a near-total abortion ban predating Arizona's statehood has drawn differing reactions from state Republicans who previously claimed to be "100% pro-life" while both local and national Democrats vowed to push to protect abortion access in one of the most
ABC News (Online)Apr 12 2024
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Harris Blasts Trump on Abortion at Arizona Campaign Stop
Vice President Kamala Harris laid into former President Donald J. Trump over abortion rights at a campaign rally in Arizona on Friday, accusing him of being directly responsible for a court decision this week that upheld the state’s 160-year-old near-total ban on abortion. “Overturning Roe was just the opening act,” Ms. Harris told a crowd of several dozen supporters at a community center in
New York Times (News)Apr 09 2024
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A desperate GOP spins Trump's abortion flip-flop: "He is actually okay with abortion"
For decades, the GOP has courted Fundamentalist Christians with the promise of making abortion a capital offense. Donald Trump even went on live television to reassure fundies that any woman who had an abortion would be "punished" under his rule. Now that the GOP has made significant headway in making good on that promise, with the Supreme Court overturning Roe v. Wade and a growing number of
Boing BoingFeb 07 2024
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Florida top court weighs letting voters decide abortion rights amendment
Florida Attorney General Ashley Moody speaks during a press a conference announcing she and Florida Governor and Presidential candidate Ron DeSantis are suing the federal government to have more autonomy over the state colleges and universities accreditation process at Hillsborough Community... Purchase Licensing Rights , opens new tab Feb 7 (Reuters) - Florida's attorney general on Wednesday
ReutersApr 09 2024
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Trump navigates abortion backlash
On Monday morning, Donald Trump issued a long-awaited statement on abortion — and promptly faced blowback from both sides of the aisle, for very different reasons.
Without explicitly saying whether he would decline a national abortion ban, Trump indicated the decision should be left to the states and reiterated his stance that there should be “exceptions for rape, incest, and life of
SemaforJan 23 2024
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Wyoming Democrats introduce bill affirming right to pre-viable abortion
CASPER, Wyo. — A coalition of Democratic lawmakers in Wyoming has introduced a bill affirming the right to get an abortion before the fetus is viable or to protect the health of the woman. House Bill 0076, dubbed the Reproductive Freedom Act, was introduced Jan. 22, the anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court’s Roe v. Wade decision in 1973. That decision was overturned in the summer of 2022,
Oil City NewsFeb 05 2024
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Abortion rights groups don’t want to “restore Roe” — but they won’t fight Biden on it
When Joe Biden and Kamala Harris held their first joint campaign event of 2024 last month in northern Virginia, they left no doubt that codifying abortion rights would be central to the president’s reelection bid. With the rally timed to honor what would have been the 51st anniversary of Roe v. Wade, Biden stood under a large “Restore Roe” sign and beside supporters holding smaller posters to
VoxApr 12 2024
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Abortion initiative meets signature quota to get on Colorado ballot
Abortion initiative clears signature threshold to get on Colorado ballot A reproductive rights campaign working to enshrine abortion into Colorado’s constitution announced Friday it had collected enough signatures to get its measure on the November ballot. Abortion is legal in Colorado, and there is no gestational age limit for the procedure. But there’s also no constitutional amendment
The HillApr 09 2024
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Old Lessons for the New Right
In an op-ed for the Washington Post last week, Florida Sen. Marco Rubio outlined why he now believes in industrial policy—done right. “In the past, Republicans outsourced such decisions to ‘the free market,’ which meant some combination of nationless corporations and Communist China,” he wrote. Most of his piece (rightly) criticizes the Biden administration’s foray into industrial policy—
The DispatchApr 12 2024
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Kamala Harris blames Trump for abortion ban: "Enough with the gaslighting"
Vice President Kamala Harris is laying the blame for the revival of Arizona's 160-year-old abortion ban squarely at the feet of former President Donald Trump, accusing the ex-president of "gaslighting" over the issue. Arizona's Supreme Court on Tuesday ruled in favor of the enforceability of a near-total abortion ban enacted in 1864, decades before Arizona even became a state. Federal abortion
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