Click in for more news from The Hill {beacon} Health Care Health Care The Big Story Arizona moves closer to repealing 1864 abortion ban The GOP-controlled Arizona House voted Wednesday to repeal an 1864 ban on nearly all abortions, after three Republicans broke ranks to vote with all the chamber’s Democrats. © AP The
President Joe Biden slammed former President Donald Trump for “making a deal with MAGA extremists” that led to the Supreme Court’s 2022 decision tearing down federal abortion protections included in Roe v. Wade. Biden has spent months tying Trump and the three Supreme Court justices he nominated to a rash of state abortion bans enacted […]
Last week, in a bid to clarify his historically nebulous stance on abortion, Donald Trump said that if reelected, he intends to leave abortion rights “to the states,” seemingly contradicting his prior stance in favor of a 16-week national ban. But Mary Ziegler, a law professor at UC Davis and leading abortion historian, thinks that […]
Senate minority leader says he is ‘not advocating anything at this level’ and that issue is too divisive among lawmakers for consensusAsked whether he supports a federal abortion ban, US Senate minority leader Mitch McConnell said Sunday that he is “not advocating anything at this level”.The Republican, during remarks in a new interview published by NBC’s Meet the Press, stopped short of saying whether or not he supported a 15-week federal ban on abortion with exceptions, but he instead...
South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem did her best to avoid discussing abortion rights during an interview with CNN’s Dana Bash on Sunday. When asked about her state’s near-total abortion ban—which classifies abortion as a Class 6 felony unless performed to save the mother’s life—Noem deflected the question back to a discussion on states’ rights. When Bash pushed her to answer the question, Noem offered up a word salad sandwich, with the real answer stuck right in the middle. “We rely on South...
Post Roe v Wade abortion law in South Dakota only allows for exceptions to save life of mother
President slammed his predecessor’s abortion stance during a trip to Florida while his 2024 rival has to appear daily in a New York courtroom for historic hush money trial
As support for abortion even in states as red as Kentucky and Kansas grows, the GOP appears to be breaking ranks with the hardlinersIn the two years since the US supreme court overturned Roe v Wade, the 50-year-long partnership between Republicans and anti-abortion activists has steadily fractured as political backlash to abortion bans has mounted. But perhaps the biggest crack emerged on Wednesday, when Arizona’s Republican-controlled state legislature moved to repeal the state’s 1864...
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As abortion access promises to be an energizing driver for voter turnout in 2024 — with abortion initiatives making their ways onto ballots in a handful of states — abortion advocates and the
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Florida’s six-week abortion ban takes effect this week, and both parties are using it to make their cases to voters across the country ahead of November’s elections.