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May 11 2022
Analysis
Blue states are preparing to become abortion safe havens
Blue states have been preparing for months for the possibility that the US Supreme Court will overturn Roe v. Wade this summer. There have been plenty of signals, even before a recent leaked opinion, that showed the Court is prepared to hand down a ruling in favor of anti-abortion advocates in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization.
So far in 2022, at least nine Democrat-
VoxJul 18 2022
Fact Check
Lee Zeldin Fact Checking:“Lee Zeldin voted for abortion bans even when the mother’s health is at risk.”
Zeldin supported bill with narrow exceptions:
Gov. Kathy Hochul has stepped up her attacks on Rep. Lee Zeldin, the Republican primary winner and her opponent in the November election.
A Hochul campaign advertisement on Facebook accuses Zeldin of having views that are out of step with New York voters.
"He’s voted for abortion bans even when the mother’s health is at risk
PolitiFactOct 11 2019
News
2020 Update
On Monday, the Washington Free Beacon published a story alleging that county records cast doubt on Elizabeth Warren’s claim that in 1971 she was fired from her job as a teacher due to being pregnant. (Washington Free Beacon)
The left defends Warren’s claim to have been fired while pregnant, and focuses on the challenges awaiting Warren in the primary.
“It's ‘trivially easy’ to
The Flip SideMay 13 2021
Fact Check
Do the COVID Vaccines Cause Miscarriages?
A viral social media post claims that the COVID-19 vaccines “are causing miscarriages.” The post includes a screenshot of data from what it claims is a list of reports to the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System database (VAERS), of pregnant women who had miscarriages after taking the COVID-19 vaccine. The reports cited in the Facebook post are real reports and can be confirmed by searching
The DispatchJun 28 2022
Analysis
The anti-abortion “social safety net”
When the last abortion clinic in Texas closes its doors for good, Prestonwood Pregnancy Center will remain.
So will Agape, with locations in Round Rock, Austin, Cedar Park, and Taylor. So will the Pregnancy Help Center, operating in Texas’s Brazoria County since 1990.
These are pregnancy resource centers, also known as crisis pregnancy centers, and for many years, their main
VoxMay 16 2019
News
The GOP’s Assault on Abortion Rights Is Tyranny of the Minority
The government of Alabama just decided that providing an abortion to a 12-year-old girl who was raped by her father is a more serious crime than raping a 12-year-old girl.
On Wednesday, Governor Kay Ivey enacted the most restrictive abortion ban in the United States. Under its provisions, performing an abortion on someone who has been pregnant for more than six weeks is a Class A felony
New York MagazineJan 13 2021
News
U.S. executes Lisa Montgomery, first woman put to death in federal system since 1953
Lisa Montgomery, a convicted killer who strangled a pregnant woman in 2004 and then cut the unborn baby from her womb, was executed in a federal prison in Indiana early Wednesday. She was the first woman executed in the federal system in nearly seven decades.
Montgomery, 52, was pronounced dead at 1:31 a.m. Wednesday after receiving a lethal injection at the federal prison complex in
NBC News (Online)Jul 06 2022
Opinion
U.S. Companies Offering Abortion Benefits for 'Worker Rights' Are Complicit in China's Human Rights Abuses
Rather than pay for maternity leave, a laundry list of woke U.S. corporations (who until recently flaunted Pride-themed logos) are cutting costs by offering chump change so their pregnant employees can travel across state lines to abort their babies. Just so the female laborer can get back to work on Monday and continue to slave away in the warehouse or clock in at her 6'x6' cubicle—all while
TownhallMay 21 2021
News
Liz Cheney’s GOP Challenger Impregnated a 14-Year-Old When He Was 18
A Wyoming Republican mounting a primary challenge to Rep. Liz Cheney said Thursday that he impregnated a 14-year-old girl when he was 18, and that she had a baby, the Casper Star Tribune reported.
Anthony Bouchard, a two-term GOP state senator, went on Facebook Live Thursday to disclose the relationship before it became more widely known, but did not disclose the girl’s age. “Bottom
ViceOct 15 2021
News
Court again lets Texas continue banning most abortions
Texas can continue banning most abortions after a federal appeals court rejected the Biden administration’s latest attempt to stop a novel law that has become the nation’s biggest curb to abortion in nearly 50 years.
The decision Thursday could push the law closer to returning to the U.S. Supreme Court, which has already once allowed the restrictions to take effect without ruling on its
Associated Press