Personhood is a notoriously tricky philosophical term to define, let alone argue about in court. Indeed, the argument that a fertilized human egg has personhood is an incredibly difficult claim to establish. Nonetheless, it is an argument that anti-choicers have been desperate to see debated within the hallowed confines of the highest US court. Unfortunately […]
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On ’60 Minutes,’ Bart Barber revealed the cruelty of Southern Baptists
On Sunday night, 60 Minutes aired an interview with Bart Barber, the new president of the Southern Baptist Convention. It was a hell of a get, even for this particular show, considering all the reasons the head of an organization rife with sexual abuse might not want to speak on national television. Add to that […]
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Catholic hospitals are wrecking reproductive health care
Among the many, many consequences of the Supreme Court’s overturning of Roe v Wade is the spotlight it has placed on Catholic hospitals across the country with regards to reproductive health care. In states where abortion rights are severely restricted—especially in those states—it’s more important than ever that women have access to healthcare when their […]
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Herschel Walker paid for an abortion. His Christian supporters won’t care.
Last night, The Daily Beast published evidence that Georgia Senate candidate Herschel Walker, a “proud pro-life Christian,” had literally written a check to a woman he impregnated so she could have an abortion. That happened months after he had an out-of-wedlock child with another woman—a detail that the woman who obtained the abortion did not […]
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Satanists: Indiana’s extreme abortion ban violates our religious freedom
In early August, Indiana’s Republican Governor Eric Holcomb signed an extreme abortion ban into law. Instead of the 22-week ban previously in place, the new law would prohibit the procedure with very few exceptions. The law went into effect on September 15. That’s when The Satanic Temple went into action, suing the state for violating […]
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Oklahoma senator: God rewarded my state for its abortion ban by making it rain
On Friday, during the Pray Vote Stand Summit hosted by Christian hate-group Family Research Council, Oklahoma Senator James Lankford claimed that God showed approval for his state’s extreme abortion ban by… making it rain. Speaking with FRC president Tony Perkins, Lankford insisted the rain was a clear and literal sign from above: PERKINS: … I […]
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Two red states go opposite ways on abortion—and the midterms pop into focus
On August 5, 2022, Indiana became the first state to approve an abortion ban after the Supreme Court’s Dobbs decision overturned Roe v. Wade. The ban is near total, allowing a very narrow range of exceptions. Three days earlier, on August 2, Kansas had overwhelmingly rejected the first step toward such a ban. Seems like […]
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Lindsey Graham proposes national abortion ban
Lindsey Graham has always been a staunch opponent of abortion rights. Now, he’s proposing new anti-abortion legislation that would ban the procedure after 15 weeks of pregnancy nationwide. Graham’s proposal comes at a difficult time for Republicans, who have been losing steam in midterm polls, hobbled by the extreme unpopularity of the Supreme Court’s summer […]
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The GOP lawmaker who condemned an extreme anti-abortion bill isn’t a hero
How extreme are GOP abortion bans? So extreme that some Republicans are even daring to publicly question whether their colleagues’ Christian faith is sincere. That’s what South Carolina State Sen. Katrina Shealy did this week after her male Republican colleagues fought to remove exceptions for rape and incest in their near-total abortion bans. As it […]
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Spike in women’s voting reg since Roe defeat could shift midterms to Dems
Women have been registering to vote at a historic rate since the conservative Supreme Court issued a landmark ruling overturning Roe v. Wade. A strong majority of newly registered voters across battleground states have been women. These newly registered voters are much more likely to be young, and they are much more likely to be […]