Two thousand attendees at the National Pro-Life Summit cast their votes on Saturday for their favorite prospective GOP nominee for president in 2024. The winner is: Florida Governor Ron DeSantis. It was the first 2024 straw poll conducted among anti-abortion voters, one of the Republican Party’s most loyal voting blocs. …
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When singer-songwriter quinnie teased a snippet of her new song “Touch Tank” at the start of the summer, she wasn’t expecting for the single to become a trending track on TikTok. “He’s so pretty when he goes down on me,” she sings over a gently strummed guitar. “Gold-skinned eager baby, …
Read More »Coachella's Parent Company Is Donating Major Cash to a Political Organization Pushing Anti-Abortion Agenda
This story is being published in partnership with Popular Information, an award-winning independent newsletter focused on money and politics. Sign up to receive its biggest stories as soon as they’re published. On June 24, the day the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, the Republican Attorneys General Association reached out …
Read More »Ted Cruz Said Jan. 6 Wasn't a 'Violent Insurrection.' Now He Labels Peaceful Pro-Choice Protesters 'Mob Violence'
Republican Sen. Ted Cruz seems very confused about the definition of violence. In a Sunday interview, he characterized peaceful pro-choice protesters standing outside the homes of Supreme Court justices as “violent.” But when Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell called the attack on the Capitol on Jan. 6 a “violent insurrection,” …
Read More »Mark Ruffalo, Jane Fonda, Cyndi Lauper, and More Back Abortion Within Reach Campaign
A coalition of nearly 100 celebrities from Mark Ruffalo and Mac DeMarco to Cyndi Lauper and Portugal. the Man is coming together to support the Abortion Within Reach campaign, launched by a group of abortion rights organizations to fight for access to safe pregnancy and abortion care. Jane Fonda, Bon …
Read More »Texas Abortion Ban Standing Would Mean States Could Essentially Override the Constitution, DOJ Warns
The Department of Justice on Monday asked the Supreme Court to suspend the Texas law banning abortion after six weeks, arguing that if the law is allowed to stand it would set a precedent for states to essentially override any other decision made by the court. In the filing, U.S. …
Read More »Legislators in Ohio and Pennsylvania Are Proposing Incredibly Restrictive Anti-Abortion Legislation
Two bills currently making their way through state legislatures in Pennsylvania and Ohio aim to place new, sometimes medically-impossible, restrictions on pregnant bodies. In Ohio, Republican legislators are pushing a bill that would require doctors attempt to “reimplant an ectopic pregnancy into the women’s uterus,” a procedure that does not …
Read More »Making Sense of the Supreme Court's Ruling on Louisiana Abortion Laws
By a vote of 5-to-4, the Supreme Court on Thursday blocked a law that would have shut down two of the three abortion-providing clinics left in the state of Louisiana. The law, which was set to take effect Friday, would have required abortion providers acquire admitting privileges at local hospitals. …
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