The "pro-life" party's most in the news candidate is making news again on Wednesday, as yet another woman is set to come forward to accuse the Republican Senatorial candidate of taking her to a clinic for an abortion.
The world Oz, and really the party he is serving, envisions is one where local political leaders wield the ultimate control over women and girls.
Speaker Nancy Pelosi did an interview with MSNBC's Andrea Mitchell that aired on Tuesday, in which Mitchell inserted obvious Republican talking points about how voters don't seem to care about women's rights so much anymore, but are more focused on "crime" and "inflation."
A new poll shows that abortion has negated many of the GOP advantages in the midterm election and the Republican problems are getting worse.
Republican strategist Matt Gorman tried to claim that abortion is not a top four issue and he was shredded by Yamiche Alcindor and Claire McCaskill.
Internal House Democratic polling reveals that the midterm election shifted toward Democrats after the Supreme Court overturned Roe.
The timing may be a coincidence, but on the day after pro-choice Americans got a big victory in deep-red Kansas, President Biden will sign an important executive order.
Betting on the legislative graveyard overseen by certain Senators, data brokers in a post-Roe country are selling listings on and access to pregnant people confident that they can get away with it,
The media showed its bias by trying to fact check the ten-year-old girl in Ohio who required an abortion after being raped.
Senate Republicans have blocked a bill that would have stopped states from preventing women from traveling out of state for abortions.
President Biden's HHS has told doctors and hospitals in every state that they must provide abortions to women when their lives are at risk.
President Biden will sign an executive order protecting access to abortion and reproductive health care.
Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, who will be sworn in to serve on the United States Supreme Court, has addressed the recent leaked draft opinion that indicates the Court will overturn Roe v. Wade, the landmark ruling that allows women to make choices about their reproductive health without excessive government restriction.
Pennsylvania Senate Democratic candidate Lt. Gov. John Fetterman told Republicans to bring their attacks on as he called for no restrictions on abortion.
Republican Senator Susan Collins called the police after concerned citizens left a message in chalk outside of her home urging her to protect women's rights.
An enraged Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) said that America is tired of hearing from extremists and they are ready to fight to keep abortion legal.
Chief Justice Roberts said that there will be an investigation of the SCOTUS leaker, but he has done nothing about Clarence and Ginni Thomas.
Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME) released a statement calling out Justices Gorsuch and Kavanaugh for lying to her about not overturning Roe v. Wade.
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT ) and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) said that Congress must codify Roe v. Wade, and blow up the filibuster if necessary to make it happen.
Sen. Joe Manchin joined with Republican Senators in blocking the Women's Health Protection Act from moving forward.
Justice Sonia Sotomayor said that if efforts to overturn Roe v. Wade are successful, then the ruling would effectively destroy public perception of the Supreme Court.
Will this institution survive the stench that this creates in the public perception that the Constitution and its reading are just political acts?” Sotomayor as oral arguments begin in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, which challenges Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood v. Casey. “I don’t see how it is possible.”
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has announced that the state will appeal a ruling from U.S. District Judge Robert Pitman that blocked its controversial abortion restrictions.
“We disagree with the Court’s decision and have already taken steps to immediately appeal it to the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals,” Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton (R) said on Twitter this morning. “The sanctity of human life is, and will always be, a top priority for me.”
Florida Representative Webster Barnaby (R) has filed the “Florida Heartbeat Act,” legislation that would prohibit abortions once a fetal heartbeat is detected, only allowing them to be performed if the mother’s life is in danger.
Associate Justice Stephen Breyer said he opposes the Supreme Court’s 5-4 ruling not to block a Texas abortion ban.
The Supreme Court had voted not to block a Texas law that went into effect at the beginning of the month that prohibits virtually all abortions after a heartbeat is detected, which is typically after six weeks of pregnancy.
The city of Portland, Oregon will vote on an emergency resolution banning trade with the state of Texas in response to the state’s abortion law.
The law prohibits virtually all abortions after a heartbeat is detected, which is typically after six weeks of pregnancy. It also essentially deputizes citizens by empowering them to file lawsuits against abortion providers suspected of violating the new policy.
President Joe Biden spoke out against the recent Texas abortion ban that went into effect Wednesday that prohibits virtually all abortions after a heartbeat is detected, which is typically after six weeks of pregnancy.
Senator Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), who is the Senate Judiciary Committee’s top Democrat, said a panel will probe the Supreme Court’s practice of deciding weighty cases on an emergency basis.
The news comes after the Supreme Court, in a 5-4 ruling, voted not to block a Texas law that went into effect Wednesday that prohibits virtually all abortions after a heartbeat is detected, which is typically after six weeks of pregnancy.
Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker, a Democrat, criticized a Texas abortion law that went into effect Wednesday that prohibits virtually all abortions after a heartbeat is detected, which is typically after six weeks of pregnancy. He said that women around the United States are welcome to come to Illinois if they need reproductive health care.
Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) spoke out after the state of Texas effectively outlawed abortion by banning most abortions after six weeks of pregnancy.
“Let’s be clear about what just happened in Texas: The second-largest state in America has effectively banned abortions,” she wrote on Twitter. “We can’t rely on the courts to protect our rights. It’s time for national laws to ensure reproductive freedom.”
Donald Trump‘s presidency was impactful in many ways. His most long lasting actions, though, might be in the courts. Not only did he place 3 Conservative justices on the Supreme Court, he appointed Republican judges all over the United States.
Jen Psaki, the White House press secretary, said President Joe Biden and his administration remain “committed to codifying” Roe v. Wade regardless of the outcome of an upcoming Supreme Court case that could undermine the landmark abortion rights legislation.
Idaho Governor Brad Little (R) has signed a bill into law that marks one of the country’s harshest abortion restrictions yet. The law, the Fetal Heartbeat Preborn Child Protection Act, bans women from having abortions once a fetal heartbeat is detected.
Senator Mark Pody and Representative Jerry Sexton (R-Tenn.) have proposed a measure that would grant fathers veto power over abortion without a pregnant woman’s consent. The bill, SB494/HB1079, is the latest push to restrict abortion in the state of Tennessee.
U.S. District Judge Myron Thompson has ruled that the state of Alabama cannot ban abortions as part of its coronavirus restrictions. The state had tried to include abortions in its list of canceled elective medical procedures amid the coronavirus pandemic.
Activists on both sides of the issue say such laws, which are commonly blocked by court injunctions, are aimed at getting a case sent to the U.S. Supreme Court, where conservatives hold a 5-4 majority, to challenge Roe v. Wade, the landmark 1973 decision that established a constitutional right to abortion.
Republicans may be forced to remove a portion of their legislation that would essentially doom the bill – again.
He said “Lord, we have gone to killing the most innocent amongst us," ignoring God promising Samaria's "pregnant women" will be "ripped open”
“We declare the reversal of the decree of ’73, Roe v Wade … We declare the reversal of Roe v. Wade. The powers of Nazgul, witchcraft and death are being reversed now over this nation.”
While the most devoted Trump loyalists will spin this move as a win for the "pro-life" cause, the real numbers – not the alternative facts – are pretty troubling.
Kasich traded one extremist, anti-choice measure for another.
CNN reported Friday that “For nearly seven months, it has been illegal for physicians in Georgia to provide abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy — but almost no one knew it.” The culprit was a simple clerical error. Nothing nefarious.
Oklahoma evangelical Republicans force doctors to give patients deceptive and unscientific advice just to keep their medical licenses.
It’s more than a bit like saying to women, “Vote for us, and we’ll take away your rights.” It’s EXACTLY like that
While Americans focus on the primaries, Republicans are eliminating women's rights.
With one word, Hillary Clinton crushed Marco Rubio and the hopes of the Republican Party in 2016.
Chris Christie, who has repeatedly told others its none of their business what he believes, demands to know what Obama believes
U.S. GOP Rep Marsha Blackburn (TN-7) will head a select investigative panel on "big abortion providers".
A brand-spanking new report conducted and released by the Texas Policy Evaluation Project, a noted research group out of the University of Texas, Austin, the state's anti-abortion laws are hurting women and prohibiting from making their own reproductive health choices which is, after all, the goal of evangelical Republicans.
Clinton called out the Republican "race to the bottom," their hateful rhetoric and lies used as an excuse to shut down the government
The Pope, once again, has moved in the opposite direction of the Republican mainstream, declaring that, as part of the Church's jubilee year of mercy (8 December to 20 November 2016), women who have had abortions should be granted forgiveness.
We have been hearing for a long time that the Religious Right is dead; demographics or not, I'll believe it when I see it lying in the road
Secretary Clinton laid it on the line today at a rally in Ohio when she likened Republican's policies on women to those of terrorists' treatment of women.
By Defunding Planned Parenthood, Ted Cruz has shown that he plans to climb over the bodies of women to claw his way into the White House
Marco Rubio supports government enforced childbirth for rape and incest victims who get pregnant through no fault of their own.
Huckabee, friend of rapists and murderers, wants you to believe not only that he is pro-life, but that his God his pro-life
Asked in Iowa how he could stop abortion when it's perfectly legal, Huckabee said, "We'll see, if I get to be president."
By the time children step foot in school again this fall, it will have been two years since Pope Francis cautioned that the Church had become “obsessed” with abortion, gay marriage and contraception.
Susan B. Anthony List has called a rape exception "abominable," "regrettable," "just wrong" and "completely intellectually dishonest."
What makes this decision particularly noteworthy is that the Justices agreed with a Circuit Court ruling that disabused evangelical Republicans, and theocratic governors from North Carolina and Wisconsin, of the idea that forcing women to undergo rape by medical device is not, as Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker claims, "just cool."
You might have thought it was bad enough that 2016 Republican presidential candidate and Governor of Wisconsin Scott Walker is going to sign a bill banning abortion after 20 weeks with no exceptions for incest or life of the mother. But it gets worse.
Jim Bob Duggar said incest deserved execution. That sounds great -- but he said it while he was shielding his own son from any legal consequences for molesting his own sisters.
Kansas' religious Republicans are so intent on proving they will go to any length to protect a fetus that they passed legislation for the National Right To Life movement outlawing a medical procedure to ban abortions at 14 weeks after fertilization.
This time around, the subject is once again abortion and instead of New York, Missouri Satanists are assisting a woman seeking a religious exemption from Missouri's religious 72-hour abortion waiting period because the Christian law violates the Satanist's "deeply held beliefs about bodily autonomy;" something Christian fanatics cannot comprehend or countenance for any woman.
You really have to admire the courage of Religious Right figures who, like Jerry Boykin and the Benham brothers, say they are willing to die for their beliefs, especially when there is absolutely no risk at all of that actually happening.
Once again Republicans show they haven't read their Bibles - or their Constitution - before they start legislating Jesus into law
A hysterical claim backed up by zero facts equals the perfect Republican argument against marriage equality
Healthcare has a lot in common with the environment, with Republicans, who know nothing about either, eager to pass legislation regarding both
Today is the anniversary of the Supreme Court's Roe v. Wade ruling giving women the right to choose when they give birth and, like every year for over two decades, religious fanatics will protest the landmark decision. Their contention is that patriarchs in Catholic Church, not women, own the right to make reproductive choices for American women.
With thousands of abortion protesters swarming the city in their annual March for Life, Republicans muscled broadened abortion restrictions through the House on Thursday after a GOP rebellion forced leaders into an awkward retreat.
Now, the Republicans' first order of business with Mitch McConnell sharing Senate Majority Leader duties with Ted Cruz is precisely what they did when they won the House majority in 2010; attack women's right to choose when they give birth.
To accomplish their goal of controlling the government, the Koch brothers have had to climb in bed with fundamentalist Christians intent on using the government to control and subvert women's rights.
Don't believe Republicans. Ladies, if a Republican says he has your back, clench; it's not because he wants to give you a back rub.
For Williamson, facts are a "metaphysical dodge" and zygotes are people simply because he says so
Republicans are big on dog whistle politics, particularly going into a midterm election where they have no apparent agenda to run on, and as is usually the case with Republicans, they are appealing to a dependable voting bloc that are rabid over socially conservative (read religious) issues.
The Supreme Court unanimously ruled anti-choice protesters can harass women going into clinics. Should liberals likewise protest this way?
Freedom of speech goes both ways and it is high time to give back to religious extremists what they dole out against women with impunity; and Supreme Court approval.
Louisiana lawmakers voted to force abortion doctors to identify themselves on the internet in an effort to scare them off or get them killed
This is 21st century America and absurdity borne of religion is on the ascendance and on the cusp of legally policing morality.
The political and media firestorm about Richard Cohen's recent column, as typical, missed the real issues.
Judge William Conley ruled that "There is a troubling lack of justification for the hospital admitting privileges requirement."
Rick Perry takes it very personally what choices Wendy Davis and her mother have made and demands that all women make the same choices.
House Republicans want government small enough to fit in your womb. And we need to make sure women remember that in 2014.
Blakeman said that since having sex at the age of 15 can be statutory rape, President Obama is encouraging criminal behavior by making Plan B available over the counter.
Elizabeth Colbert Busch had to try to appeal to Democrats, Republicans and Independents in her Monday night debate with Mark Sanford.
Instead of accepting reality, our media jumped into the distorted fun house mirror of Ms. Rose's brain and pronounced that Satan really is afloat in New York City, and his name is Planned Parenthood.
The GOP: Sodomizing our shared reality - and you
There are those who say the mood of the nation toward gays and women's rights are changing for the better, yet the far right is forging ahead to restrict their rights.
Ted Cruz, Rand Paul and Sarah Palin seem to have captured the spirit of the current crop of Republicans; still extreme and still anti-Obama.
Here is the proof that 'pro-life' Republicans are not actually concerned with the life of a fetus: An Iowa Republican killed a maternal care bill with a poison pill.
Texas Republicans were shocked to learn that their 2011 legislative efforts to defund family planning will result in more unplanned pregnancies and cost $273 million.
People actually willing to vocally support reproductive rights have become less and less common owing to the success of stigmatization
According to legislation proposed by New Mexico Republicans, if you get raped or molested, you are the criminal. If you don't carry the fetus to term, you may face up to three years in prison.
One might think that the gospel, and all those deeply held religious values really are only wallet deep.
There's good news for liberty on this 40th anniversary of Roe V Wade. For the first time ever, a majority of Americans support a woman as having the right to make her own medical decisions.
Buried deep in Ryan's latest Fetus Rights Bill is a section that will allow a rapist to sue his victim in order to stop her from getting an abortion.
A pro-fetus House Republican from Georgia is defending legitimate rape Todd Akin of Missouri and the gift of rape Richard Mourdock of Indiana.
The Republican Party needs to shed its God problem before its unhealthy obsession destroys America
James Dobson says America has turned its back on God and Sandy Hook is God's response: the murder of our children in retaliation.
Eric Cantor has gotten his orders from Koch/ALEC headquarters, and there is no mistaking their intent; continue to make life hell for the President and Democratic House members.
A federal judge has ruled that North Carolina cannot offer choose life plates without also offering pro-choice plates
