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Dec 13 2023
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New Mexico supreme court considers challenge to local anti-abortion ordinances
New Mexico’s highest court is considering whether a 19th century federal law allows local governments to ban abortion despite some of the most permissive state laws in the country. The state supreme court heard oral arguments Wednesday on a challenge from the state, which asked the justices to invalidate local laws passed by four conservative counties and cities. Attorney General Raúl Torrez (
The HillAug 10 2023
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Anti-abortion movement clashes over crushing defeat in Ohio
“Some think that only a total ban is acceptable. But we see, over and over again, that such an uncompromising position doesn’t have support. There’s no political appetite for that,” he said. This soul-searching on the right shows how fractured the anti-abortion movement remains on both tactics and messaging more than a year after they achieved their decades-long goal of toppling Roe v. Wade.
PoliticoAug 09 2023
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Anti-Abortion Advocates Just Lost Big Time in Ohio
Ohio voters rejected an effort that would have made it harder to pass citizen-led ballot initiatives, in a rebuke of Republican efforts to block an expansion of abortion rights that’s on the ballot in November. Issue 1, which would have raised the threshold to pass citizen-led ballot measures from a simple majority to a 60 percent threshold failed, Decision Desk HQ projected. With about 97
Teen VogueMar 28 2023
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Man charged with firebombing Wisconsin anti-abortion office
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Investigators on Tuesday finally captured the man they believe firebombed a prominent Wisconsin anti-abortion lobbying group's office last year ahead of the U.S. Supreme Court's decision to overturn its landmark Roe v. Wade ruling. The U.S. attorney's office in Madison announced that police arrested 29-year-old Hridindu Sankar Roychowdhury at Boston's Logan International
Yahoo NewsMar 15 2023
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Arkansas Pushes Ahead With Anti-Abortion Memorial at Capitol
The Arkansas House on Tuesday passed a bill to build a monument marking the number of abortions carried out in the state before the end of . The proposal to create a so-called monument to the unborn near the state Capitol was approved in a 60-19 vote. The memorial, which would commemorate “unborn children aborted during the era of ,” was opposed by Republican Rep. Jeremiah Moore on the grounds
Daily BeastOct 11 2023
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Anti-Abortion Groups Go All-In On Coming Ohio Vote
Anti-abortion groups are banking on Ohio to end the movement’s run of state-level losses and create a blueprint for battles in 2024 and beyond. In four weeks, voters in the Buckeye State will decide whether to enshrine abortion protections into the state constitution or be the first to reject an abortion-rights measure since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade. “Ohio is the first of a lot
JoeMyGodNov 28 2014
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The coming wave of anti-abortion laws
The big Republican gains in the November elections strengthened and enlarged the anti-abortion forces in the House and the Senate. But it’s the GOP victories in the statehouses and governor’s mansions that are priming the ground for another round of legal restrictions on abortion. Arkansas, for instance, already has strict anti-abortion laws. But with a Republican governor succeeding a
PoliticoJan 20 2023
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The post-Roe fight dividing anti-abortion activists
As anti-abortion activists gather in Washington, D.C., on Friday to celebrate the overturning of Roe v. Wade — a singular cause that united abortion opponents for decades — some factions are split on the movement's next steps.
The big picture: While mainstream anti-abortion messaging still revolves around sanctioning doctors or clinics, a small but growing group of self-described
AxiosFeb 27 2024
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West Virginia Senate OKs bill requiring schools to show anti-abortion group fetal development video
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — West Virginia’s Republican-majority Senate greenlit a bill on Tuesday that would make a video on fetal development produced by an anti-abortion group required viewing in public schools. Live Action’s “Baby Olivia” video, which West Virginia lawmakers want to show in eighth and tenth-grade classrooms, has received criticism from physicians and educators who say it
The Seattle TimesFeb 27 2024
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West Virginia Senate OKs bill requiring schools to show anti-abortion group fetal development video
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — West Virginia's Republican-majority Senate greenlit a bill on Tuesday that would make a video on fetal development produced by an anti-abortion group required viewing in public schools. Live Action’s “Baby Olivia” video, which West Virginia lawmakers want to show in eighth and tenth-grade classrooms, has received criticism from physicians and educators who say it
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