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
The president’s address comes the week before the state’s six-week abortion ban goes into effect.
S A T I R E After workshopping several potential slogans with Democratic focus groups, the 2024 Biden campaign has settled on “Death To America”. “This is what the Biden Presidency is all about,” announced President Biden as the campaign banner was unfurled. …. According to sources within the campaign, Biden began considering the slogan […]
A reproductive rights group in Montana launched an initiative Tuesday to include a state constitutional amendment protecting abortion rights on the ballot in the general election this November. On Tuesday, Montanans Securing Reproductive Rights announced that it has officially launched its signature drive to get the required 60,000 signatures from Montanans by June 21 to
Opponents of the amendment question the wisdom of allowing medically unqualified groups access to women considering an abortion but the government counters the move is designed so prospective patients can be better informed.
The North Lafayette Redevelopment authority (NLRA) seems to be on the chopping block. A senate bill in Baton Rouge to would repeal NLRA if passed.
The move highlights the deepening divide between the more socially conservative wing of the party, which opposes abortion on moral grounds, and the more populist, MAGA branch.
Abortion politics and policy are clashing here like in no other state as the Republican-led Legislature convenes Wednesday to sort out the aftermath of a ruling allowing a statewide ban to take effect within weeks. It adds more uncertainty for a state that has sometimes felt like the center of the political universe since President Biden’s 2020 victory here helped seal his election, prompting the first false cries from former President Trump that the election was rigged. Republicans here are...
After a conservative majority of the Arizona Supreme Court ruled April 9 to uphold an antiquated near-total abortion ban from 1864, the shockwaves on both sides of the political aisle were immediate and obvious. Democrats decried the court’s decision, vowing to redouble efforts to pass an amendment to the state’s constitution. If passed, the Arizona Abortion Access Act would effectively negate the court’s ruling and guarantee abortion access to all Arizona citizens. Republicans faced a far...
California Gov. Gavin Newsom is continuing his campaign to make Republican lawmakers pay for their abortion bans, with new initiatives targeting Arizona and Alabama. On Sunday, Newsom announced forthcoming legislation that would make abortion care more accessible to residents of Arizona, which shares a border with California. The proposal, a response to Arizona’s Civil War-era abortion ban, would shorten the amount of time it takes for Arizona doctors to be approved to perform abortions in...
by Kelcie Moseley-Morris, Idaho Capital Sun Following a legislative session with no action taken to clarify or amend Idaho’s near-total abortion ban, some residents have formed a political group called Idahoans United for Women and Families to explore options for a possible 2026 ballot initiative that would restore and protect access to reproductive care statewide, including abortion. Idaho has a near-total ban on abortion with narrow exceptions for rape and incest during the first...
BOISE, Idaho (AP) — A new Idaho organization says it will ask voters to restore abortion access and other reproductive health care rights in the state after lawmakers let a second legislative session end without modifying strict abortion bans that have been blamed for a recent exodus of health care providers. “We have not been […]