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☆ Over 35,000 women fled Texas to get abortions in 2023
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-16 | by ( Katie Balevic | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

Tens of thousands of women fled Texas in 2023 to get abortions out of state, data shows. Nationally, over 171,000 patients traveled out of state to get care. download the app Email address Sign up By clicking “Sign Up”, you accept our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy . That includes the number of women who had to leave the state to get abortion care, new data shows. In 2023, over 35,000 patients fled Texas to get abortion care in another state, according to data from the Guttmacher Institute, a pro-abortion research and policy organization.

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☆ Hillary Clinton says Democrats underestimated anti-abortion activists: 'We could have done more to fight'
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-26 | by ( John L. Dorman | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Read previewFormer Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, in an interview for a forthcoming book, made some of her strongest remarks to date about the fall of Roe v. Wade, arguing that the Democratic Party underestimated the anti-abortion movement. "We didn't take it seriously, and we didn't understand the threat," Clinton, the party's 2016 presidential nominee, told the Times. Related storiesDuring the interview, Clinton lamented that Democrats were "taken by surprise" by the Supreme Court's Dobbs decision. She argued that she never became complacent over the potential for a conservative-led Supreme Court to reverse Roe. AdvertisementSince the fall of Roe, Democrats have benefited in elections across the country, with many independents and even some Republicans backing ballot measures protecting abortion rights.

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☆ Left-wing AOC was with her fiancé at a Brooklyn cinema when pro-Palestine supporters accosted her, demanding she say the word 'genocide'
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-09 | by ( Cameron Manley | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

Read previewRep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez had just left the Alamo Drafthouse Cinema in Brooklyn with her fiancé earlier this week when she was accosted by a group of Pro-Palestinian protesters. Just say the word. I need you to understand that this is not OK."She responded that she had said that it was a genocide. AdvertisementIn a virtual town hall around the same time, AOC responded to a constituent who said the US was "funding a genocide." A Jew and a liberal Zionist, Sanders was asked by Novara Media in February if he would call what is happening in Gaza a genocide.

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☆ Iowa Republicans pass a new 6-week abortion ban
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-12 | by ( Adam Edelman | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +7 min

Reynolds, in a statement issued moments after the bill was passed, said she would sign the bill on Friday. As it currently stands, abortion remains legal in Iowa until the 20th week of pregnancy. The bill passed by Republicans, who control the Legislature, would ban abortions at the sixth week of pregnancy — or when, in some cases, a fetal pulse can first be heard via ultrasound. Republicans have often struggled to talk to voters about abortion rights in the year since the Supreme Court's Dobbs ruling overturned Roe v. Wade. The latest bill is nearly identical to a six-week ban that remains permanently blocked following an Iowa Supreme Court ruling last month.

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☆ Sen. Bill Cassidy says reaction to mifepristone dispute is 'totally alarmist' and insists abortion remains a state's rights issue – even as GOP colleagues call for nationwide limits
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-16 | by ( Katie Balevic | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

GOP Sen. Bill Cassidy said the concern over mifepristone and the FDA's authority is "totally alarmist." Cassidy said the Supreme Court's Dobbs decision returned decisions on abortion laws back to the states. The Louisiana senator also insisted that decisions on abortion laws had been returned to the states after last year's Supreme Court decision. "I think Dobbs is the uncomfortable middle ground, where people will confront that there is a diversity of opinion. In September, after weeks of arguing that individual states "should decide the issue of abortion," Sen. Lindsey Graham said abortion was "not a states' rights issue" and proposed a national abortion ban that would bar the procedure after 15 weeks of pregnancy.

☆ Biden's approval slips to 38%, near the lowest of his presidency, new poll says
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-23 | by ( Emma Kinery | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

President Joe Biden's approval rating dipped in a new poll released Thursday, approaching an all-time low for that survey as Americans give the Democrat poor marks on how he has handled the economy. Only 38% of respondents said they approve of the job Biden is doing, versus 61% who said they disapprove, according to the Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research poll. Less than a third of Americans, 31%, approve of Biden's handling of the economy, according to the poll. It's a leap from Republicans though: Only 4% approve of what Biden is doing as president, and 3% approve his handling of the economy. Biden's all-time low approval of 36% in the AP-NORC poll was in July of last year.

☆ A man in Texas suing his ex-wife's friends for helping her get an abortion is the latest scare-tactic in the anti-abortion movement, experts say
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-16 | by ( Katherine Tangalakis-Lippert | Kelsey Vlamis | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

A man is suing his ex-wife's friends for $3 million, saying they helped her get an abortion. The lawsuit included texts in which the women discussed abortion pills, which are banned in Texas. "Delete all conversations from today," another one of the women said after some discussion about finding and taking abortion medication. The lawsuit is the latest in a number of conservative efforts to target abortion pills, including in Texas. "That includes CVS and Walgreens if their abortion pills find their way into our state."

☆ The overturn of Roe v. Wade has been a catastrophe for Republican attempts to win over Gen Z
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-06 | by ( Madison Hall | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

The GOP win in getting the Supreme Court to strip abortion rights didn't sit well with young voters. For the survey, Murmuration polled 3,227 15 to 25-year-olds (members of Gen Z) and 1,036 adults aged 26 or older. The Gen Z survey had a 1.7% margin of error, while the survey of adults aged 26 years or older had one of 3%. Aside from "other," which also garnered 29%, abortion access was by far the most pressing issue amongst Gen Z. Since the Supreme Court punted abortion rights back to a state-to-state basis, referendums and constitutional amendments restricting abortion access will continue to pop up.

☆ A Republican congresswoman broke down in tears begging her colleagues to vote against a same-sex marriage bill
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-08 | by ( Madison Hall | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

A GOP congresswoman cried as she spoke out against the bipartisan Respect for Marriage Act on Thursday. Rep. Vicky Hartzler of Missouri begged members of the House to vote against the bill. "I hope and pray that my colleagues will find the courage to join me in opposing this misguided and this dangerous bill," Hartzler said through tears. "I hope and pray that my colleagues will find the courage to join me in opposing this misguided and this dangerous bill," Hartzler said through tears. Following his opinion and the Supreme Court's reversal of the nation's abortion protections granted in the famous Roe v. Wade case, Democrats labored to enshrine same-sex marriage protections in law.

☆ Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer defeats Trump pick Tudor Dixon, winning a second term, NBC News projects
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-09 | by ( Emma Kinery | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

Gretchen Whitmer won a second term after defeating Republican challenger Tudor Dixon, who was endorsed by former President Donald Trump, NBC News projected. Whitmer led by about 6 percentage points with more than 70% of the vote in, according to NBC. As the economy became top of mind for voters, Whitmer cast herself as a bipartisan leader and deal-maker. She frequently touted passing a balanced budget every year of her term and her commitment to rebuilding Michigan's crumbling roads. Trump endorsed Dixon four days before the state's primary.

☆ Live Results: Vermont votes in congressional and state elections
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-08 | by ( Walt Hickey | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

Explore more race results below. Polls close in the state at 7 p.m. Eastern Standard Time. It symobilizes the 2022 Election. Proposal 2 would add language to the state constitution explicitly prohibiting slavery and indentured servitude. Another, Proposal 5, would add the right to abortion directly into the state constitution.

Already fighting from behind, Democrats' chances of keeping the House have slipped further in the last month. In a letter to Democratic colleagues on Thursday, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi called on House members to make a point of defending their record on crime. Republican groups including Citizens for Sanity, headed by former aides to Trump, poured money in recent weeks into ads criticizing Democrats as weak on crime and illegal immigration. In a Reuters/Ipsos poll released Tuesday, respondents were twice as likely to list crime, rather than abortion rights, as the country's biggest problem. Shield PAC, a Third Way-affiliated political action committee, launched ads on Monday promoting the law enforcement records of Virginia's Elaine Luria and Minnesota's Angie Craig, both endangered Democrats.

☆ Biden to ask Congress to codify Roe v. Wade abortion rights protections if Democrats keep control
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-18 | by ( Emma Kinery | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +1 min

President Joe Biden announced Tuesday that he will push the next U.S. Congress to codify the abortion rights protections outlined in Roe v. Wade if Democrats keep control of the legislature. Biden made the promise during a speech hosted by the Democratic National Committee on Tuesday afternoon in Washington, DC. The president vowed that if more Democratic senators are elected and his party keeps the House in the upcoming midterm elections, the first legislation he will send would enshrine abortion rights protections. Biden aims to sign the bill into law close to the 50th anniversary of the Roe v. Wade decision, which is Jan. 22 of next year, according to a Democratic official familiar with his remarks. Abortion has become a critical issue for voters after the Supreme Court's Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization decision overturned the protections of Roe earlier this year, sending the issue back to the states.

☆ Biden promises to codify Roe if two more Democrats are elected to the Senate
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-23 | by ( Emma Kinery | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

U.S. President Joe Biden delivers remarks at a Democratic National Committee event at the National Education Association headquarters in Washington, U.S., September 23, 2022. REUTERS/Evelyn HocksteinPresident Joe Biden vowed that Democrats will codify the right to an abortion into law if two more are elected to the U.S. Senate in the upcoming midterm elections. "The power to get things done is in the hands of the American people, especially the women out there," Biden said. In total, nearly half of states have banned, placed limits on, or attempted to ban abortion. Biden in his speech Friday said Republicans would try to pass a ban on abortion if they gained control of the legislature after the midterms.

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