A new poll from CNN shows that Brett Kavanaugh’s Supreme Court nomination is the least popular since Robert Bork’s nomination by Ronald Reagan. The overall percentage of polled Americans who would like to see Kavanaugh confirmed is a whopping 37 percent. Bork’s came in a little lower, at 31 percent.
Baltimore County resident Elizabeth Eden was in labor when her doctor informed her that she’d tested positive for opiates.
Trump-loving megachurch pastor and author Robert Jeffress took to Twitter on Sunday to express his disagreement with Pope Francis, who released a statement last week clarifying the Catholic Church’s anti-capital punishment position. The Pope noted that “there is an increasing awareness that the dignity of the person…
Do not despair, Americans—the Republicans systematically tearing down our civil rights and social safety net will surely be vulnerable once they have achieved every last one of their stated goals.
Sen. Susan Collins of Maine will be a key vote for the confirmation of an eventual nominee to the Supreme Court selected by President Donald Trump. A lot is at stake with the nomination, and Collins, who likes to position herself as a so-called “moderate” Republican, isn’t exactly someone you can count on to do the…
The Supreme Court decided on Tuesday that it’s more important to protect anti-abortion health centers than pregnant women.
What do you do when you want conservative, Catholic parents to stop vaccinating their kids? You tell them the vaccines are made out of “aborted fetal tissue.”
The Supreme Court has granted the Trump administration’s request to throw out a lower court’s decision that allowed a pregnant immigrant minor in federal custody to access an abortion.
Diane Foley, a Christian anti-choice activist who believes monogamy is scientifically correct, is now in charge of Title X funding, which administers federal grants for family planning services. Foley, recently named to oversee the Office of Population affairs, has shown to be particularly adept at rewriting mission…
Ahead of Friday’s vote on whether to repeal the country’s eighth constitutional amendment banning abortion in most cases, many in Ireland were optimistic the “Yes” vote would prevail. But few had predicted such an overwhelming margin of victory, a development that will now change the country’s decades-long restrictive…
The Trump administration is expected to announce on Friday a new rule banning clinics that provide abortions from receiving federal funding, The New York Times reported. The rule would deal a significant blow to Planned Parenthood and other clinics that provide both abortions and women’s healthcare.
Six weeks is less time than it often takes for many women to even realize they are pregnant. (For comparison, a season of Westworld takes longer than six weeks to air.) But Iowa Governor Kim Reynolds signed a bill into law on Friday afternoon that would ban abortions after six weeks of pregnancy. It’s the most …
This week, as anti-choice protesters and GOP lawmakers urged President Trump to reinstate a domestic abortion “gag rule” and entirely defund Planned Parenthood, Kellyanne Conway approached the president with a handy infographic.
This week, the Trump administration is inching toward its long-promised reshaping of Title X legislation, a change that would entirely cut out clinics offering abortion referrals from the federal grant program.
It’s been more than 60 years since the Supreme Court struck down school segregation in Brown v. Board of Education—a decision now almost universally considered to be an undeniably good thing.
Two weeks ago, The Atlantic announced that it was hiring Kevin D. Williamson, a conservative who had written for years at the National Review, as an “ideas columnist.” On Thursday, editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg announced that Williamson had been fired. So what changed in that handful of days?
In 2009 George Delgado, a family physician and founder of a crisis pregnancy center in California, got a call from a friend in El Paso, Texas. The friend, who ran an anti-abortion ministry, had received a panicked message from a young woman. She’d just taken the first pill to induce a medical abortion, in Delgado’s…
On Monday, Republican Mississippi governor and enemy of working women Phil Bryant signed the nation’s most prohibitive abortion bill into law. The law makes it illegal to get an abortion after 15 weeks in Mississippi, where over a third of children already live in poverty and infant mortality rates are the highest in…
Four men have been charged by a U.S. Attorney in Illinois with possessing a machine gun, and three of those men — including a former sheriff’s deputy in Illinois who ran for sheriff in 1998 — are suspected of a mosque bombing in Minnesota last August and an attempted bombing of an abortion clinic in Illinois last…
Over the past few months, the Department of Health and Human Services has quietly initiated small tweaks to language in its policies, all of which have the same aim: to prioritize abstinence programs over contraception. As BuzzFeed reported on Friday, this could have a huge impact on the funding for many healthcare…
