Since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade nearly two years ago, supporters of the right to choose have won every ballot initiative, in every state, in which an abortion-related measure has been put before voters. The trend is as true in red states like Kansas and Kentucky as it is in blue California and Vermont, […]
TOPEKA (KSNT) - A bill requiring doctors to ask patients why they're getting an abortion in Kansas is heading to Governor Laura Kelly's desk. The Kansas Senate voted 27-13 to pass the bill on Tuesday, March 26. "The concept of gathering data to better understand abortion is a worthwhile endeavor," said Senator Mark Steffen, a []
Ouch. House Speaker Mike Johnson's ultra-skinny margin for error will soon shrink to just a single vote after his preferred candidate failed to lock down a critical vacant seat in a special election this week. That vacant seat, incidentally, belonged to none other than Kevin McCarthy, who decided to make Johnson's already impossible life even more difficult by resigning after far-right renegades booted him from the speakership. Yet both McCarthy and Johnson united behind Assemblyman Vince Fong...
A renewed push to bring back abortion to Louisiana failed in a legislative committee Monday, March 25. A bill authored by State Rep. Aimee Freeman, D-New Orleans, would have enshrined into the state’s constitution a person’s right to make decisions on reproductive health care without the government stepping in.
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Republican legislators gave final approval Tuesday to a bill that would require Kansas abortion providers to ask their patients why they want to terminate their pregnancies and then report the answers to the state.
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The Republican-controlled Kansas state Legislature passed a bill Tuesday requiring abortion providers to ask patients the reason for their procedure and report the information to the state, a move critics say creates an unnecessary hurdle for patients to receive reproductive care. The state Senate passed the bill in a 27-13 party-line vote on Tuesday, after
On Friday, Wisconsin Republican Representative Mike Gallagher announced he will be resigning his House seat, effective April 19th. He had previously announced he would not be seeking re-election, although his reasons for leaving office in April are not clear.
Letter from a friend My column last week, “What to do about Joe?” elicited many thoughtful replies. Most supported my thesis that whatever Joe Biden’s failures – even his culpability in Israel’s criminal assault on Gaza – the alternative is worse. Election of a fascist means the death of democracy even in etiolated form, and More
The Supreme Court heard oral arguments Tuesday morning in a case that has everything to do with abortion and, at the same time, nothing to do with abortion. The court will decide whether the Federal Drug Administration acted properly in 2016 and 2021 when it made it easier for women to obtain mifepristone, one of the two drugs used in medication abortions in this country. At the same time, this case has nothing to do with abortion. It’s about whether the FDA, a federal executive agency, acted...