• Kari Lake says 'unfortunately' Arizona isn't enforcing 1864 abortion ban, flipping again

    Arizona GOP Senate candidate Kari Lake said in an interview with an Idaho media outlet that "unfortunately," her state's near-total abortion ban dating from 1864 is not being enforced, flipping back on comments she made against the law earlier this month, when she called state legislators asking them to repeal it. In an interview with the Idaho Dispatch on Saturday, Lake described the recent court decision upholding the 1864 law: “The Arizona Supreme Court said this is the law of Arizona. But...

  • Kari Lake flips yet again as she hits opponents of Civil War era abortion law

    Arizona Senate hopeful Kari Lake appears to have changed her position on the state's Civil War era total abortion ban — again.Immediately after the Republican-controlled state Supreme Court allowed the ban — which was passed decades before Arizona even became a state and makes no exceptions other than to save the life of the pregnant woman — to be enforced, Lake came out with a statement condemning the decision, saying, "it is abundantly clear that the pre-statehood law is out of step with...

  • Kari Lake downplays Arizona’s strong pro-life law, calls for economic policies to reduce abortion

    Kari Lake dismissed the significance of Arizona’s abortion ban and suggested tax cuts and other economic measures are the best way to reduce abortions, despite widespread evidence showing the effectiveness of pro-life laws.

  • Where Does Kari Lake Stand On Arizona Abortion Law? Depends Who She Is Talking To

    A local Arizona news outlet published a story last week highlighting remarks the Republican Senate candidate and election denier Kari Lake made to a crowd at an event put on by the Mohave County

  • Who is Arizona’s GOP Senate candidate Kari Lake? She doesn’t even know

    Kari Lake, the Republican candidate for the U.S. Senate seat being vacated by Kyrsten Sinema, is having a very difficult time figuring out just what it is she stands for, depending upon who she’s talking to. That’s leading her to swing wildly from the far-right fringes steeped in conspiracy theories to trying to put on a “moderate” face to consolidate support. Abortion is the most obvious example of Lake’s confusion, where she’s flip-flopped between absolute bans,  allowing each individual...

  • Arizona’s 1864 Abortion Law was Made in a Women’s Rights Desert

    Dora Juhl, a 15-year-old teenager, walked into Dr. Rosa Goodrich Boido’s obstetrical practice in Phoenix in January 1918. Juhl wanted to end her pregnancy. But abortion was illegal in Arizona. Boido, the city’s sole female physician, asked Juhl for US$100 – about $2,000 today – to perform the abortion. Juhl said she could pay $27 More

  • Arizona’s abortion U-turn points to Republican break from anti-abortion movement

    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...

  • Tensions grow with Kari Lake

    Tensions grow with Kari Lake (First column, 11th story, link) Related stories:WAXMAN: WHY DID DIRTY PECKER SNITCH ON STAND?POLL: More than half of voters think Trump committed crimesDon could have to wear an ankle tag under house arrestHaley Supporters Biggest VulnerabilityTaxes, Tariffs, Debt: Investors Start to Fear Election

  • Trump Is Souring On Kari Lake

    The Washington Post published a new story Monday revealing that Donald Trump has all but ruled out choosing Arizona Senate candidate and election denier Kari Lake as his running mate

  • Borderline Cowardice: Democrats Flip-Flop on the American Dream (Again)

    In an otherwise strong State of the Union address this March, President Joe Biden breathed new life into a term the immigrant rights movement has spent years pushing out of the Democratic vocabulary. He was stumbling over a sentence; right-wing Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene was heckling him from the audience about a young woman in […]

  • HHS’s final rule on protecting abortion records

    Click in for more news from The Hill {beacon} Health Care Health Care   The Big Story HHS’s final rule on protecting abortion records The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) issued its final draft of a post-Dobbs rule protecting patient records from being used to potentially prosecute patients who receive reproductive health services

  • S.S.C. Napoli vs. A.S. Roma: Lineups & Match Thread

    While this year’s version of the Derby Del Sole might not pack the same punch as the challenges against last year’s Scudetto-winning side, today’s match is still critical for the Giallorossi’s hopes for Champions League qualification. It also marks the true beginning of a challenging series of matches for Roma, with the side facing Napoli, Bayer Leverkusen, Juventus, Leverkusen again, and Atalanta between now and May 12. If Roma comes out of this stretch of matches with their hopes for Europa...