Democratic Arizona state Senator Eva Burch made headlines last week after speaking on the floor of the state Senate about her plans to obtain an abortion after receiving news that her pregnancy was nonviable. Arizona has banned all abortions after 15 weeks of pregnancy. “I felt like it was really important for me to bring people along, so that people could really see what this looks like,” says Burch, a former nurse practitioner who worked at a women’s health clinic before running for office,...
TikTok displayed a notification to some U.S. users on Friday, urging them to call their senators and ask them to vote no to a bill that would ban the popular short-form video app if it is not divested from Chinese tech company ByteDance. Tell your Senator how important TikTok is to you. Ask them to vote no on the TikTok ban, the notice said, which allowed users to enter their zip code to locate their senator's phone number. Now, if the Senate votes, the future of creativity and communities...
TikTok continues to tell users to contact their Senators and vote against the platform's potential US ban.
After weeks of frenzied denials from Republican politicians that they do not want to ban IVF (or, in the case of House Speaker Mike Johnson, concerningly ambiguous and non-committal comments on the fertility technology), a new budget backed by 80% of House Republicans proved—again—that it was all bullshit. First reported by HuffPost on Thursday, the House Republican Study Committee—which comprises 80% of the caucus, including Reps. Lauren Boebert, Marjorie Taylor Greene, Brian Mast, Steve...
In the first major abortion case since overturning Roe v. Wade, the high court is considering restrictions on a drug used for medication abortions.
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Democrats lied to sugarcoat their radical belief that adults have a 'right' to create and murder children at whatever whim or cost.
Sen. Thom Tillis (R-N.C.) said he received a voicemail in which someone threatened to “find” and “shoot” him over a potential TikTok ban Wednesday. “This is a voicemail my office received last night,” Tillis said in a post on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter. “TikTok's misinformation campaign is pushing people to call their
NEW YORK >> Donald Trump suggested Tuesday that he’d support a national ban on abortions around 15 weeks of pregnancy, voicing for the first time support for a specific limit on the procedure.
Sen. Francis Escudero has lauded the enactment of a law that bans the “cruel” practice in schools of preventing indigent students with unpaid dues from taking their examinations.
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, […]