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
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
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...
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.
President Joe Biden slammed former President Donald Trump for “making a deal with MAGA extremists” that led to the Supreme Court’s 2022 decision tearing down federal abortion protections included in Roe v. Wade. Biden has spent months tying Trump and the three Supreme Court justices he nominated to a rash of state abortion bans enacted […]
State Republicans blocked the repeal effort even after Donald Trump called for a more moderate solution
Last week, in a bid to clarify his historically nebulous stance on abortion, Donald Trump said that if reelected, he intends to leave abortion rights “to the states,” seemingly contradicting his prior stance in favor of a 16-week national ban. But Mary Ziegler, a law professor at UC Davis and leading abortion historian, thinks that […]
South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem did her best to avoid discussing abortion rights during an interview with CNN’s Dana Bash on Sunday. When asked about her state’s near-total abortion ban—which classifies abortion as a Class 6 felony unless performed to save the mother’s life—Noem deflected the question back to a discussion on states’ rights. When Bash pushed her to answer the question, Noem offered up a word salad sandwich, with the real answer stuck right in the middle. “We rely on South...
Democratic Governor Katie Hobbs says, 'A law from 1864 written by 27 men cannot be allowed to govern the lives of millions of Arizona women'
After decrying state supreme court ruling on ban with no exceptions for rape or incest, lawmakers ensure its potential to take effectAfter days of nationwide debate over the Arizona supreme court’s recent decision to uphold a near-total abortion ban from the 19th century, Arizona’s Republican-controlled statehouse has again quashed an effort to repeal the ban.Republicans, who hold a one-seat majority in both the Arizona house and senate, on Wednesday shot down a procedural measure in the...
The Biden campaign's efforts to stoke fears about Trump banning abortion could backfire and rally pro-lifers disappointed by the GOP candidate's recent comments.
Trump has abandoned his previous support of federal pro-life laws, but Students for Life, Abby Johnson, and Lila Rose are pressing him to fight for the unborn at all levels.