A divide between abortion-rights activists over whether to include restrictions regarding the viability of the fetus on planned state ballot measures is roiling the movement.
“We have such better ammo on this,”said one New York Democratic operative. “I would never waste a breath on hush money when I could say ‘abortion,’‘Ukraine,’‘tax billionaires.’” 3. You can speak about a theme rather than the cases themselves.Some allies say that ...
“Viability is the framework that Florida had used until the legislators started passing abortion bans,” Brenzel said. “What we know is that voters understand this, and we see it as clear and concise language that matches with what the standard was in Florida fo...
Approving an abortion drug is always going to come with a high level of scrutiny and pushback. Dr. Michael Greene knew this well back in 2000 when he was leading the Food and Drug Administration committee that first approved the abortion drug mifepristone for sale in the U.S. To Greene, ...
Since the Supreme Court’s decision to reverse Roe v. Wade last year, Republicans have been paying a heavy political price. Arecent NBC News pollshowed that 58% of Americans believe that abortion should be legal all or most of the time, and that those who do rank it as one of their ...
The legal battles to come The limited privacy laws governing health care information in the U.S. offers no help when it comes to discussing abortion — or even searching for information about the medical procedure online. HIPAA, the federal law governing health records, is "limited to health ...
“It lets those communities know that abortion is common and it's acceptable,” Urbina said. “That what they're doing is OK, especially for young people.” According to a Pew Research Center poll published in May 2024,63 percent of Americansbelieve abortion should be legal in all or m...
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constitutional right to abortion and legal recreational marijuana, early turnout has surpassed totals from the state’s August election, when voters rejected a referendum that would have made it more difficult to amend the state constitution, a vote seen largely as a proxy for the abortion effor...
When it comes to abortion, we consistently find that both sides have a whole different set of vocabulary that frames their views. We often end up talking past those with whom we disagree because we have not agreed on how to define the terms the terms that we use, i.e. what we mean ...