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Red-state Kansas sends a message to right-wing theocrats | Dick Polman

BY: - August 8, 2022

When high court theocrat Samuel Alito wrote his screed abolishing the constitutional right to an abortion, he insisted – quoting the late rightwing justice Antonin Scalia – that the issue of abortion should be “resolved like most questions in our democracy, by citizens trying to persuade one another and then voting.”

Biden to sign order on out-of-state abortion access

BY: - August 3, 2022

The White House is limited in what it can do, and the burden has fallen on Congress to try to codify Roe v. Wade into law. A bipartisan group of senators this week introduced a bill that would protect access to abortion, but it’s unclear if it can meet the 60-vote threshold needed to advance in the Senate. 

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Abortion rights advocates. (Photo by Astrid Riecken/Getty Images).

If Roe is overturned, there’s no guarantee people can get abortions in liberal states | Opinion

BY: - May 13, 2022

In some of the states that aren’t expected to ban abortion, there are laws that mandate minors involve their parents before they can get an abortion.