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...
Sasha Abramsky Arizona’s 1864 abortion law has local party leaders flailing to avoid alienating voters.
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
An Arizona Grand Jury has indicted eleven Trump allies. They include Rudy Giuliani and Mark Meadows.
President Joe Biden is keeping quiet on one of his biggest potential bragging rights, the rise in domestic energy production. It might seem like a head-scratching approach to reelection, with the bulk of polls showing Biden losing in swing states to his November rival, former President Donald Trump. But the paradox reflects deep sensitivities within […]
A new Civiqs poll for Daily Kos shows why the issue of abortion is so perilous for the Republican Party, with voters viewing themselves as significantly more aligned with Democrats on the matter. By 15 points, registered voters say their opinion on abortion is closer to that of Democrats in their states than Republicans, at 48% to 33%, according to the poll released Wednesday. President Joe Biden also fares 8 points better than Donald Trump on the question of how voters think the...
Since Roe v. Wade, Republicans have consistently sought half-measures instead of challenging the abortion regime, and that tepid approach hasn’t brought Democrats to their side.
After House Republicans repeatedly thwarted a bid to repeal the ban, two Senate Republicans backed a push in that chamber to move the repeal forward. By Gloria Rebecca Gomez, Arizona Mirror A bid to repeal Arizona’s near-total abortion ban that was written when Abraham Lincoln was president will move forward in the state Senate, while Republicans in the House of Representatives for the second week in a row blocked efforts to repeal the law. On Wednesday, two Senate Republicans supported a...
We have always said life begins at conception. Our Republican allies seem not to have heard that—even after years of taking our money and votes and giving 'I am Pro-Life' statements when their earpiece gives them their consultants’ clearance.
The race for control of the White House and Congress in November are slated to be hotly contested elections, and both Republicans and Democrats face different challenges in those battles. While the presidential election between President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump will be the marquee matchup, several other races will be affected by […]
Republicans in critical Congressional races are reshaping their stance on prohibiting abortion, in some cases backing away from stricter limits on the procedure in the wake of public backlash.
In Gov. Gavin Newsom's new political advertisement, two anxious young women in an SUV drive toward the Alabama state line. The passenger says she thinks they're going to make it, before a siren blares and the flashing lights of a police car appear in the rearview mirror. "Miss," a police officer who approaches the window says to the panicked driver, "I’m gonna need you to step out of the vehicle and take a pregnancy test." The fictional video is the latest in a series of visceral advertisements...