As Trump Fans the Flames of Anti-Abortion Rhetoric, Kansas Offers a Cautionary Tale
Threats against abortion providers have often been condoned by the state. Perhaps nowhere does history more clearly illustrate this point than in Wichita.
The fight over reproductive freedom enters a grim new chapter.
Threats against abortion providers have often been condoned by the state. Perhaps nowhere does history more clearly illustrate this point than in Wichita.
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Historian Johanna Schoen, activist Billie Winner-Davis, and philosopher Srecko Horvat are this week’s podcast guests.
Recent abortion restrictions notable for their extremity expose the fiction that any of these laws were ever about anything other than intimidating women.
There is no sound science behind the claim that a medication abortion can be reversed.
Five states have already passed a so-called trigger law, which would ban nearly all abortions if the Supreme Court were to overturn Roe v. Wade.
Kavanaugh's first Supreme Court dissent is a mess of omissions and misrepresentations.
With the elevation of Judge Brett Kavanaugh to the U.S. Supreme Court, reproductive rights advocates fear that things will only get worse. Reporter Jordan Smith decided to take a road trip through Oklahoma, Arkansas and Mississippi to show what it's like for women seeking abortions in states where the right conferred by Roe has already been eroded.
Across the United States, millions of women live with a legal right to abortion but without meaningful access to exercise that right.
The Trump administration bypassed the judicial system to negotiate a backroom settlement with 74 religiously affiliated institutions, including Notre Dame.
The rule would discourage Title X providers from counseling patients about abortion and bar them from referring patients to an abortion provider.
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