Immigration, Abortion And Guns: The Issues In The Final Debate
After two debates dominated by personal attacks and overheated rhetoric, the issues returned to center stage last night. Oh, sure, the post-debate headlines focused on Donald Trump’s refusal to promise...
View ArticleTrump Probably Can’t Get Roe v. Wade Overturned
Over the years, Donald Trump has held just about every imaginable position on abortion, from declaring in 1999 that he was in favor of abortion rights — even supportive of a controversial form of...
View ArticleHow The Public Views Ohio’s Abortion Bill
Ohio’s Republican-led legislature passed a law on Tuesday making abortion illegal once a fetal heartbeat can be detected (typically at about six weeks’ gestation). The bill is awaiting a signature from...
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How Much Progress Have We Made Since Women Went On Strike In 1970?
In 1970, women’s rights activist Betty Friedan helped organize a disruptive feminist protest to mark the 50th anniversary of the ratification of the 19th amendment, which guaranteed women the right to...
View ArticleHow Defunding Planned Parenthood Could Affect Health Care
When Dr. Cecilia Norris, a primary care physician in Iowa City, Iowa, sees a patient who wants an intrauterine device or a contraceptive implant, she takes out a pad and writes down the phone number...
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Democrats Aren’t In Lockstep Over Abortion — That’s Why They’re Fighting
For Democrats with eyes fixed on the midterms, the months since the 2016 election have been filled with soul-searching about the most promising paths to victory in 2018. This week, Rep. Ben Ray Luján,...
View ArticleThe GOP’s Abortion Ban Is About Politics, Not Science
To hear the bill’s sponsors tell it, the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act (H.R. 36) is about safeguarding fetuses that science has proven are capable of feeling pain. “No pain capable baby...
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Americans Haven’t Changed Their Mind Much On Abortion, But They Have On Other...
Over the past two decades, public opinion in the U.S. has shifted dramatically on many of what we call “cultural” issues. It’s a soft-sell term, an odd way of undercutting the power that issues like...
View ArticleEmergency Politics Podcast: Trump’s Chance To Reshape The Supreme Court
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View ArticleThe Abortion Debate Isn’t As Partisan As Politicians Make It Seem
Welcome to Secret Identity, our regular column on identity and its role in politics and policy. The debate over Brett Kavanaugh, President Trump’s nominee to replace Anthony Kennedy on the Supreme...
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Abortion May Be Mobilizing More Democratic Voters Than Republicans Now
The partisan struggle over abortion has been an enduring feature of American politics. But the parties have not prioritized it equally — the issue has consistently animated Republican voters more than...
View ArticlePolitical Confessional: I Think Democrats Should Compromise On Abortion To...
Welcome to Political Confessional, a column about the views that Americans are scared to share with their friends and neighbors. If you have a political belief that you’re willing to share with us,...
View ArticlePolitics Podcast: Why Some States Are Passing New Abortion Restrictions
By Galen Druke, Amelia Thomson-DeVeaux and Perry Bacon Jr., Galen Druke, Amelia Thomson-DeVeaux and Perry Bacon Jr. and Galen Druke, Amelia Thomson-DeVeaux and Perry Bacon Jr. More: Apple Podcasts |...
View ArticleThree Reasons There’s A New Push To Limit Abortion In State Legislatures
Republicans have long sought to limit abortion, both at the state and national level. But abortion opponents have stepped up their efforts in 2019, according to advocates on both sides of the issue....
View ArticlePolitics Podcast: Can Democrats Win The Senate In 2020?
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Here’s Why The Anti-Abortion Movement Is Escalating
Graphics by Gus Wezerek Georgia, Ohio, Mississippi, Kentucky and now Alabama. In the past three months, five states have enacted laws that severely restrict access to abortion — sometimes as early as...
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What Republicans And Democrats Are Doing In The States Where They Have Total...
The recent passage of a law in Alabama that essentially bans all abortions in the state resulted in a barrage of coverage of other abortion restrictions being adopted in conservative areas this year....
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Abortion Rights Haven’t Been A Priority In Blue States — Until Now
Even before Alabama and Georgia approved laws that severely restrict abortions, it had not been a good year for abortion-rights advocates. Bills to protect abortion rights and access had stalled across...
View ArticlePolitics Podcast: Is Elizabeth Warren Surging?
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View ArticleMany Republicans Don’t Like Planned Parenthood — But They Don’t Mind Birth...
President Trump notched a partial victory last week in a war that Republicans have been waging for more than a decade: Planned Parenthood will no longer receive one important source of federal funding...
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