Abortion advocates sue Alabama AG over prosecution threats for out-of-state travel | #republicans | #Alabama | #GOP
A group that supports people who need out-of-state abortions in the Deep South sued Alabama’s Republican attorney general Monday, following his threats to prosecute anyone who assists residents who want to travel out of state for an abortion. The Yellowhammer Fund argued Attorney General Steve Marshall’s threats create an illegal chilling effect on the group’s […]
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Supreme Court conservatives dash abortion and affirmative action | #elections | #alabama
Overturning Roe v. Wade and eliminating affirmative action in higher education had been leading goals of the conservative legal movement for decades.In a span of 370 days, a Supreme Court reshaped by three justices nominated by President Donald Trump made both a reality.Last June, the court ended nationwide protections for abortion rights. This past week, […]
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Supreme Court conservatives dash abortion and affirmative action | #republicans | #Alabama | #GOP
Overturning Roe v. Wade and eliminating affirmative action in higher education had been leading goals of the conservative legal movement for decades.In a span of 370 days, a Supreme Court reshaped by three justices nominated by President Donald Trump made both a reality.Last June, the court ended nationwide protections for abortion rights. This past week, […]
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Supreme Court conservatives dash abortion and affirmative action | #elections | #alabama
Overturning Roe v. Wade and eliminating affirmative action in higher education had been leading goals of the conservative legal movement for decades.In a span of 370 days, a Supreme Court reshaped by three justices nominated by President Donald Trump made both a reality.Last June, the court ended nationwide protections for abortion rights. This past week, […]
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Abortion ruling hands Democrats a political gift: an issue that wins elections | #elections | #alabama
This is the second story in a series examining the impact of the fall of Roe v. Wade with the Supreme Court’s ruling last June in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization. When President Biden rallied Democrats last September ahead of the midterm elections, he predicted the Supreme Court decision overturning Roe v. Wade set off […]
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Abortion after 12 weeks banned in NC, GOP lawmakers override veto | #republicans | #Alabama | #GOP
Legislation banning most abortions after 12 weeks of pregnancy will become law in North Carolina after the state’s Republican-controlled General Assembly successfully overrode the Democratic governor’s veto late Tuesday.The House completed the second and final part of the override vote after a similar three-fifths majority — the fraction necessary — voted for the override earlier […]
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U.S. public health emergency could increase abortion access in Arkansas
Illustration: Natalie Peeples/Axios The Biden administration is weighing a possible public health emergency declaration that would free up resources to help people access abortions, including in Arkansas, Axios’ Oriana Gonzalez writes. State of play: Abortion is illegal in Arkansas except in cases to save a pregnant person’s life, to treat ectopic pregnancies or to remove […]
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Northwest Arkansas’ seventh annual march for life
ROGERS, Ark. (KNWA/KFTA) — On Sunday afternoon hundreds of people marched in the 7th annual Northwest Arkansas March for Life in Rogers. For those in attendance of today’s march it was a day of celebration but for one organization Sunday’s march was an attack on basic human rights. “We are out here marching for the […]
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It’s More Dangerous to Be Pregnant in Post-Roe America | #republicans | #Alabama | #GOP
I remember the first time I heard the maxim “abortion is health care.” I thought it was promising, in terms of messaging, but ultimately a bit hyperbolic. That was before last June, when the Trumpified Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, the landmark 1973 decision in which abortion was enshrined into law. The fallout from the right-wing […]
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March for Life returns to DC with new post-Roe v. Wade focus | #republicans | #Alabama | #GOP
One year ago, the annual March for Life protest against legal abortion took place in Washington in a mood of undisguised triumph. With a fresh conservative majority on the Supreme Court, thousands of marchers braved bitterly cold weather to celebrate the seemingly inevitable fall of Roe v. Wade.Now they’re assembling again, with the constitutional right […]
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