Malpractice insurance companies have piled on numerous restrictions and jacked up their rates. It’s become a new form of restricting access to abortion.
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‘Men’s Rights and Nothing More, Women’s Rights and Nothing Less’
Saving America from the Comstock Act and other repressive remnants of the 19th-century past
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GOP Senators in a Bind on IVF Vote Today
Republicans in tough re-election races have not come up with good responses for why they oppose a federal right to fertilization treatments.
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Meet the Coalition Fighting to Protect Abortion in Florida
Amendment 4 needs 60 percent support to pass. Organizers are fanning out across the state to get the votes.
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Congress Is Back, Feel the Excitement
The big goal is to just fund the government through the end of September. Guess what, Republicans are going to make that a problem.
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Anti-Abortion Activists Pushed Amarillo to Help Save the Mifepristone Case
Far-right legal crusader Jonathan Mitchell thought that a local ordinance was key to create standing in the Supreme Court.
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Nebraska’s Single-Subject Imperative on Abortion
A state supreme court decision could boil down to an all-or-nothing gambit.
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Trump’s IVF Ideas Were Put to a Vote; Republicans Rejected Them
That IVF protection bill, S.4445, could come up again in the Senate.
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Direct-Democracy Backsliding Claims Another Victim
A paperwork snafu kicked an abortion rights measure off the ballot in Arkansas. Organizers can try again in 2026.
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Will the Senate Take Off the Handcuffs?
The Harris-Walz ticket and every Democrat are promising big things. But the filibuster makes that agenda impossible. Will they finally remove that barrier?