[ad_1] “The progress in Florida and the progress in nearly 20 other states is part of a new beginning for life,” Pence said. “I’m going to continue to be a voice for advancing the cause of the unborn on principle and compassion.” Pence added that he trusts Republicans to chooseContinue Reading
[ad_1] While a federal circuit court panel issued a partial stay until the ruling can be fully appealed, the reasoning on which both the plaintiff and Kacsmaryk partially based their arguments is arguably more eye-popping than the decision itself. Citing the Comstock Act, a sweeping anti-obscenity measure passed by CongressContinue Reading
[ad_1] But a six-week ban pushes the outer boundary of anti-abortion rights proposals. And it could spell trouble for DeSantis among independents and suburban voters in a general election, if he makes it that far. “We’re going to make him own this, and his agenda, everywhere he goes,” said aContinue Reading
[ad_1] The Florida House approved it on a 70-40 vote on Thursday. The state Senate approved it last week. The six-week ban will help DeSantis show conservative voters in a primary contest that he’s solidly anti-abortion, but it also carries big risks in a general election. Republicans overall underperformed duringContinue Reading
[ad_1] Unless the Supreme Court intervenes, the 5th Circuit’s decision means that starting Saturday, mifepristone will remain legal at the federal level but access will be much more restricted. Mifepristone, one of two drugs commonly used together to cause an abortion, was approved 23 years ago by the FDA forContinue Reading
[ad_1] By Thursday morning in New Hampshire, Scott said he did believe some type of federal restriction should be implemented, and said if president, he would “definitely” sign into law a 20-week ban — a measure he has supported in the Senate. “We have to have a federal limit onContinue Reading
[ad_1] You could say the Republican fight or flight instinct is kicking in, except it’s none of the former and all of the latter. It’s like the nature show set in the Serengeti when all the gazelle sense lions in the vicinity and freeze in place, their heads in theContinue Reading
[ad_1] “We were careful to create a narrative early on about who Janet was, what was at stake in this election and who Dan Kelly was, and abortion fit within that,” Guarasci said. “Our paid media ends with ‘he’s an extremist that doesn’t care about us.’ Everything related back toContinue Reading
[ad_1] “The only thing red in our district is our sun burns,” said state Sen. Alexis Calatayud, a Miami-area Republican who voted against the abortion bill last week when the full Senate approved it. Calatayud said she voted against the measure because thousands of her constituents in the blue strongholdContinue Reading
[ad_1] The move, a longtime ask of abortion-rights advocates and Democratic lawmakers, comes just days after a Texas court ruling threatening access to the abortion pill — the most common method for ending a pregnancy. Vice President Kamala Harris will meet Wednesday afternoon with the White House’s Task Force onContinue Reading