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Democrat Wins Big in Alabama With Pro-Choice Message | #republicans | #Alabama | #GOP

Marilyn Lands makes her case in a Huntsville-area district. Photo: Michael S. Williamson/The Washington Post via Getty Images Last month’s shocking decision by the Alabama Supreme Court treating embryos created for IVF treatments as subject to wrongful-death laws accelerated an already powerful pro-choice backlash against Republican-backed anti-abortion extremism. That’s true even in Alabama itself, where […]

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Why Katie Britt Is Responding to Biden’s State of the Union | #republicans | #Alabama | #GOP

The junior senator from Alabama. Photo: Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images It’s not unusual for the party that does not control the White House to choose a fresh face to respond to the president’s State of the Union address. And for Republicans, a party with a poor reputation for diversity, it’s even less unusual to ensure that […]

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Tuberville & GOP Are Tripping All Over Alabama IVF Decision | #republicans | #Alabama | #GOP

The senator from “Huh?” Photo: Alex Wong/Getty Images Senator Tommy Tuberville is not known for being a particularly deep thinker on public-policy issues, much less the vexed and metaphysical question of when life begins. He is, however, a proud foot soldier of the anti-abortion movement; he spent months blocking routine military promotions in an effort […]

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