In their new book, Klem and McDowell tell the story of the early women’s rights activists' opposition to abortion.
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Prolifers are outraged about Trump’s abortion comments on “Meet the Press”
I wrote yesterday: Essentially, Trump is throwing the pro-life movement under the bus. He and his team believe that they can win in 2024 with a more moderate pro-life view on abortion. To put this more crudely, pro-life conservative evangelicals...
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Lindsey Graham keeps pushing his 15-week abortion ban
South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham came to pay his respects to the Christian Right at the rally known as “Road to Majority.” Abortion was the focus of his speech. Watch: Graham attacks a new bill introduced by House Democrats called...
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Current writers join a Politico forum on post-Roe America
Last year Politico asked twenty thinkers to respond to the end of Roe v. Wade. Today Politico asked the same twenty people to reflect on the one-year anniversary of the Supreme Court’s reversal of Roe v. Wade. Current editors and...
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Should women who have abortions get the death penalty? 21 South Carolina legislators think they should
Have you heard about the South Carolina Prenatal Equal Protection Act of 2023? Twenty-one Republicans in the South Carolina General Assembly are supporting it. Here is Stephen Neukam at The Hill: Republican lawmakers in South Carolina are considering a change...
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Mastriano: Women who get abortions should be charged with murder
The Pennsylvania GOP gubernatorial candidate made the comment in 2019 on WITF’s “Smart Talk”: Listen. The “murder” argument picks-up around the twenty-four minute mark: Here is NBC News: State Sen. Doug Mastriano, the Republican nominee for governor in Pennsylvania, said in 2019...
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Old state anti-abortion laws are becoming relevant again
Current contributing editor Daniel K. Williams explains in a recent piece at The Atlantic: Abortion opponents seem not to have expected some of the more draconian consequences of the Dobbs decision—that anti-abortion laws would prevent pregnant women who were not seeking abortions...
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Could the battle over abortion in the states result in another “Bleeding Kansas?”
Michael Waldman writes about the recent Supreme Court gun ruling: The Supreme Court’s ruling on Thursday striking down a New York gun law isn’t just the most significant ruling on the Second Amendment in a dozen years — it may be the...
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