by Jennifer Shutt, Missouri Independent May 18, 2022 WASHINGTON — The national debate over abortion rights raged in the U.S. House Judiciary Committee on Wednesday, as Democrats warned of the dangers of a potential end to the constitutional right and Republicans argued that legislatures should determine abortion laws. The hearing …
Read More »People Are Rallying This Weekend For Abortion Rights. What Comes Next?
Errin Haines Originally published by The 19th From the moment the draft opinion leaked, people — many of them women — began gathering on the steps of the high court and in cities across America. Some voiced their outrage at the end of a precedent that lasted generations; others celebrated …
Read More »Democrats’ Abortion Bill Fails — Again — And They Turn To November Elections
Amanda Becker Originally published by The 19th A bill to codify abortion rights failed to move forward in the U.S. Senate on Wednesday, with Democratic lawmakers warning that the only way to protect abortion access is to add to their numbers in the November midterm elections. It was the second …
Read More »Abortion Would Be Punishable As Murder Under New Louisiana Proposal
by Greg LaRose, Louisiana Illuminator May 4, 2022 Less than 48 hours after a U.S. Supreme Court ruling was leaked, indicating the landmark abortion ruling in Roe v. Wade would be overturned, Louisiana lawmakers acted aggressively to bolster state law that bans the procedure. The House Committee for the Administration …
Read More »Senate Passes Bill Expanding Security For Families Of SCOTUS Justices
The Senate on Monday passed a bipartisan bill that would expand security protections to the family members of Supreme Court justices. The bill,the Supreme Court Police Parity Act, would allow the Supreme Court of the United States Police to provide the families of Supreme Court Justices with around-the-clock security protection. The introduction …
Read More »McConnell Doesn’t Rule Out Senate Vote Outlawing Abortion If GOP Takes Control
by Jennifer Shutt, Missouri Independent May 9, 2022 WASHINGTON — Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell isn’t ruling out bringing a nationwide abortion ban up for a vote, should the U.S. Supreme Court end the constitutional right to terminate a pregnancy and his party regains the chamber in the November elections. …
Read More »Corporate America Has Little, If Anything, To Say About Abortion
Chabeli Carrazana Originally published by The 19th In the days since a Supreme Court draft opinion that would overturn Roe v. Wade leaked, corporate America has offered a familiar response: silence. It mirrors the days following Texas’ implementation of its six-week abortion ban last September — silence from the many …
Read More »What Happens If Roe v. Wade Is Overturned? LGBTQ+ Legal Experts Are Worried About Civil Rights.
Originally published by The 19th Kate Sosin, Orion Rummler The Supreme Court’s draft opinion leak has James Esseks worried, and not just about abortion access. Esseks, the director of the LGBTQ & HIV Project at the ACLU, ticks off the civil rights laws he fears could be on the chopping …
Read More »Vote On Abortion Rights Planned In Senate Next Week; Likely To Fail
by Jacob Fischler, Iowa Capital Dispatch U.S. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer will force a vote next week on a bill to codify abortion protections, following the disclosure that the Supreme Court could be ready to overturn a landmark abortion rights ruling, he and other Senate Democrats announced Thursday. The …
Read More »Senate To Try Again On Abortion Rights After Bombshell Disclosure Of Draft Opinion
by Jennifer Shutt, Iowa Capital Dispatch May 3, 2022 WASHINGTON — U.S. Senate Democrats on Tuesday pledged a new vote codifying the right to an abortion after publication of a draft court ruling that showed the Supreme Court on track to overturn the landmark Roe v. Wade abortion decision. Democrats, …
Read More »VP Kamala Harris Says Overturning Roe Is A ‘Direct Assault’ On Freedom
Vice President Kamala Harris blasted a leaked draft that indicated that the Supreme Court had voted to overturn the landmark abortion rights decision Roe v. Wade, declaring that “women’s rights in America are under attack.” Harris went on to encourage those in attendance to vote for pro-abortion rights Democrats to Congress …
Read More »Biden On Leaked Draft Opinion: The ‘Right To Choose Is Fundamental’
President Joe Biden said Tuesday that his administration “will be ready when any ruling is issued” on abortion rights, after the nation was rocked by the leak of a draft opinion from the U.S. Supreme Court that confirmed the court is planning to overturn access to abortion. “I believe that …
Read More »The Supreme Court Will Overturn Roe v. Wade, According To A Draft Opinion. Here’s What We Know.
Shefali Luthra, Abby Johnston, Terri Rupar Originally published by The 19th This developing story is being updated. On Monday night, Politico reported that Roe v. Wade — the 1973 decision that enshrined federal abortion protections — will be overturned, according to an initial draft authored by Justice Samuel Alito. The …
Read More »Report: Leaked Draft Opinion Shows Supreme Court Intends To Overturn Roe V. Wade
The United States Supreme Court has voted to strike down the landmark Roe v. Wade decision, according to an initial draft majority opinion written by Justice Samuel Alito circulated inside the court and obtained by POLITICO. “The draft opinion is a full-throated, unflinching repudiation of the 1973 decision which guaranteed …
Read More »States Rush To Revise Their Abortion Laws As A Major Supreme Court Decision Nears
by Jennifer Shutt, Iowa Capital Dispatch April 24, 2022 WASHINGTON — Abortion access throughout the country could soon depend on a patchwork of state laws if a U.S. Supreme Court dominated by conservatives overturns the constitutional right it established nearly 50 years ago. The court’s decision on Mississippi’s 15-week abortion …
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