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[1/3] Republican U.S. presidential candidate former Vice President Mike Pence addresses The Faith and Freedom Coalition's 2023 "Road to Majority" conference in Washington, U.S., June 23, 2023. The event, which former President Donald Trump will address on Saturday, coincides with the first anniversary of the Supreme Court's landmark Dobbs decision, which overturned the 1973 Roe v. Wade ruling that had legalized abortion. Apart from Pence, the other Republican candidates did not plunge deeply into policy specifics. Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, who is second in opinion polls to the front-runner Trump, referred to a six-week abortion ban that he signed in his state earlier this year. Trump has attempted to ally himself with opponents of abortion rights, while also dodging specific questions on legislation he would or would not support.

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Over the past year, Biden has signed multiple executive orders aimed at shoring up access to abortion rights, including the ability to access abortion pills or travel out of states that have banned the procedures. Biden's campaign manager Julie Chavez Rodriguez said the organizing power of the three abortion rights groups was essential to Democrats' strong performance in the 2022 midterms and will be again. The June 24, 2022, Dobbs decision struck down the 1972 Roe v. Wade ruling that had largely protected abortion rights in the U.S. Strategists in both parties have attributed Democratic strength in 2022, in part, to higher support from people who back abortion rights. The biggest expansions of abortion rights over the past year occurred in states, including Michigan and Minnesota, where Democrats control both the legislature and the governor's office.

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☆ Abortion is ancient history and that matters today
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-23 | by ( Katie Hunt | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +9 min

This long view of abortion matters, according to Mary Fissell, a professor of the history of medicine at Johns Hopkins University. That’s because assumptions about how abortion was viewed in the past color present-day arguments about abortion rights. Abortion opponents portray the rights granted by Roe v. Wade and legal access to abortion as an historical aberration, according to Fissell, which is not accurate, historians say. Earliest references to abortionThe first written references to abortion are contained in an ancient Egyptian papyrus written about 3,500 years ago. For most of history, abortion has not been an issue about the fetus, like it is today, but rather about women’s behavior.

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☆ Pence Challenges 2024 Republicans to Embrace 15-Week National Abortion Ban
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-23 | by ( Shane Goldmacher | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Mr. DeSantis recently signed a six-week abortion ban in Florida that Mr. Trump said some in the anti-abortion movement considered “too harsh.” Both Mr. DeSantis and Mr. Pence have seized on that phrase to criticize the former president. Evangelicals are an especially large voting bloc in two of the early voting states, Iowa and South Carolina. Mr. Trump will headline an evening gala on Saturday. Mr. Trump has repeatedly avoided taking a clear stance on whether he would support a national abortion ban that would curb access to abortion even in Democratic-controlled states. “What I’ll do is negotiate so people are happy,” Mr. Trump said at one point.

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☆ Gretchen Whitmer says The Big Lebowski's credo of 'The Dude abides' is 'a really wise philosophy'
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-22 | by ( Brent D. Griffiths | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Gretchen Whitmer's love for "The Big Lebowski" is well documented. Gretchen Whitmer's love for "The Big Lebowski" is well documented. "You know, it's funny; 'The Dude abides'—it's a really wise philosophy," Whitmer told The Atlantic's Mark Leibovich as he followed her around the state last week for a brief profile that was published on Thursday. Whitmer, who Biden reportedly vetted as a possible running mate in 2020, repeatedly reiterated her support for the president. Along the way, Whitmer picked up "the Big Gretch" nickname that she has embraced, though she cautioned that was not her initial response.

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☆ Opinion | The Importance of Hope in the Pro-Life Movement
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-22 | by ( David French | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

No president saw sharper decreases in the abortion rate and ratio from the first to the last year of his presidency than Barack Obama. Yet that long trajectory toward lower abortion rates and ratios changed during Donald Trump’s single term. As a result, there were 56,080 more abortions in the final year of Trump’s presidency than there were in the final year of Obama’s. And no, this was not a Covid-induced blip: The abortion rate dipped slightly in 2017, the first year of Trump’s presidency, before rising in 2018, 2019 and 2020. Why is the decrease in abortion after Dobbs so much less than even the most informed observers anticipated?

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☆ Poll: 61% of voters disapprove of Supreme Court decision overturning Roe
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-22 | by ( Mark Murray | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +4 min

People march together to protest the Supreme Court's decision in the Dobbs v Jackson Women's Health case on June 24, 2022 in Miami, Florida. Zoom In Icon Arrows pointing outwards NBC News PollAnd by more than a 2-to-1 margin, voters say abortion access across the country has become too difficult rather than too easy. "A year after the Dobbs decision, though, there is no change in voters saying access is too difficult in their state." In the poll, 61% of all voters say they disapprove of the 5-4 decision, Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization, which leaves the legality and conditions of abortion up to individual states. And they're nearly unmoved from Aug. 2022 — two months after the Dobbs decision — when 58% disapproved, while 38% approved.

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☆ One Year, 61 Clinics: How Dobbs Changed the Abortion Landscape
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-22 | by ( Allison Mccann | Amy Schoenfeld Walker | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +18 min

One Year, 61 Clinics: How Dobbs Changed the Abortion LandscapeIn the year since Roe fell, 20 states enacted laws banning or restricting abortion, forcing a rapid shift in the country’s patchwork of abortion access. Hawaii A map showing the locations of abortion providers that have closed, stopped offering abortion services or opened a new location. Gabriela Bhaskar/The New York Times Emily Kask for The New York Times Emily Kask for The New York Times Emily Kask for The New York Times A year ago, the Jackson clinic was the last one standing in Mississippi. Kendrick Brinson for The New York Times Kendrick Brinson for The New York Times Kendrick Brinson for The New York Times Kendrick Brinson for The New York Times Terreisha Rancher, 26, recently sat in an exam room at the West Alabama Women’s Center in Tuscaloosa, pregnant and uninsured. No abortions Austin, Texas Closed Houston No abortions Madison, Wis. No abortions Memphis A grid of photos of abortion clinics in nine locations.

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☆ Opinion | Dobbs Could Mark the End of the American Bargain
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-21 | by ( Katherine Miller | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +3 min

The proof of the existence of this bargain is the way people talk about prospective trades: Would you give up this for that? But the table feels like it’s tilting like that in the 21st century, the bargain rebalancing in unpredictable ways, even when unwanted by the public. Governors who sign laws that reverse older laws sometimes stay quiet; Republican presidential candidates remain vague about what policy should look like. We didn’t know if we’d be fined,” a Florida woman told CNN. A Republican participant said, “If they are demanding control here, where does it end?”

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☆ Waiting for the Justices
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-21 | by ( David Leonhardt | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Sometime in the next 10 days, the Supreme Court is expected to tightly restrict or ban race-based affirmative action in college admissions. The ruling could come as soon as tomorrow or as late as Friday, June 30, before the justices leave for their summer break. The justices faced a fundamental decision: Should they overturn Roe v. Wade and allow states to outlaw abortion? Once a majority of justices decided to do so, the written opinions that they released were less meaningful. “The decision in Dobbs was essentially binary,” Adam Liptak, who covers the Supreme Court for The Times, told me.

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☆ Senate Democrats Seek to Highlight G.O.P. Opposition to Abortion Rights
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-21 | by ( Annie Karni | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

(The case that overturned the right to abortion is Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization.) The outcome seems preordained: Republicans blocked many of those same bills last year. Last year, the Senate also failed to pass legislation to guarantee abortion rights nationwide, as Republicans and one Democrat in the Senate blocked an effort to enshrine the Roe v. Wade precedent in federal law. Since the overturning of Roe, 14 states have passed near-complete bans on abortion. An additional eight states have passed abortion bans that are temporarily blocked in court.

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☆ Senate confirms abortion rights lawyer to US appeals court
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-20 | by ( Andrew Goudsward | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

June 20 (Reuters) - A lawyer who argued on the losing side of the U.S. Supreme Court case that ended the national right to abortion won confirmation on Tuesday to a seat on a federal appeals court. The U.S. Senate confirmed Julie Rikelman, a top lawyer for the Center for Reproductive Rights, to the Boston-based 1st Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals by a vote of 51-43. Rikelman represented Mississippi's last remaining abortion clinic in urging the Supreme Court to reaffirm the constitutional right to abortion and strike down a state law that banned the procedure after 15 weeks of pregnancy. Rikelman's nomination drew opposition from Republicans, who questioned her abortion rights advocacy during a September 2022 Senate hearing and described her position on the issue as extreme. She is Biden’s third nominee to secure a seat on the court, whose active judges were all nominated by Democrats.

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☆ A Year After Dobbs, Republicans Push Into Risky Territory on Abortion
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-20 | by ( Katie Glueck | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

But for a critical slice of Republicans — those who represent competitive districts in state legislatures or in Congress, who support some degree of abortion rights, or, in some cases, presidential candidates — the issue presents a particularly difficult balancing act. Their decisions and calculations are at the heart of the tensions over the abortion debate within the Republican Party in the post-Roe era. “I was hearing from both sides strongly,” said State Representative Mike Caruso of Florida, a Republican who opposed a measure — ultimately signed by Gov. “It was pretty much a ban on abortion.”“I’ve got seven children, been through nine pregnancies,” he added. “We should suffer electoral consequences if we don’t do what we said we would do.”

Persons: —, ”, Mike Caruso, Ron DeSantis —, ” “ I’ve, Mike Beltran, Florida, Beltran Organizations: Republican Party, Republican, Gov, State Locations: Florida

☆ A Year After Dobbs, Advocates Push in the States for a Right to Birth Control
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-17 | by ( Sheryl Gay Stolberg | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

“It’s going to be up to Republicans to choose whether they want to protect the right to contraception,” Senator Edward J. Markey, Democrat of Massachusetts and the sponsor of the failed Senate bill, said in an interview before the governor’s veto. Mr. Markey called the Dobbs decision “a preview of coming atrocities.”On Wednesday, Mr. Markey and Representative Kathy Manning, Democrat of North Carolina, reintroduced legislation to create a national right to contraception. With the House now controlled by Republicans and Senate Democrats well short of the 60 votes needed to break a filibuster, the legislation is most likely dead on arrival in Washington. Polls have consistently shown broad bipartisan support for access to contraception, and while Republicans may not be eager to enshrine a right to it in federal law, neither do they generally want to ban it. Still, some opposition to birth control does exist.

Persons: “, Edward J, Markey, Kathy Manning Organizations: Democrat, Republicans, Senate Democrats, Roman Catholic Church, American College of Obstetricians, and Drug Administration Locations: Massachusetts, North Carolina, Washington, implanting

☆ DocuSign shares rise on earnings beat and strong guidance
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-08 | by ( Hayden Field | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

DocuSign, the e-signature provider, reported an earnings and revenue beat for the fiscal quarter ended April 30, alongside announcing a handful of C-suite hires and new service offerings. Here's how the company did:Earnings: 72 cents per share, adjusted, vs. 56 cents per share expected by analysts, according to Refinitiv. 72 cents per share, adjusted, vs. 56 cents per share expected by analysts, according to Refinitiv. Revenue: $661 million vs. $642 million expected by analysts, according to Refinitiv. For the fiscal second quarter, DocuSign expects revenue of $675 million to $679 million, compared to analyst estimates of $667 million, according to Refinitiv.

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☆ Stocks making the biggest moves after hours: DocuSign, General Motors, Vail Resorts and more
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-08 | by ( Sarah Min | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +1 min

DocuSign posted first-quarter adjusted earnings of 72 cents per share, topping consensus estimates of 56 cents, according to Refinitiv. Vail Resorts — Shares fell 3.9% after Vail Resorts missed third-quarter earnings expectations. The mountain resort company posted earnings of $8.18 per share, while analysts polled by Refinitiv expected $8.84 per share. It reported revenue of $1.24 billion, lower than the estimate of $1.27 billion. It slightly beat on revenue expectations, reporting $136.3 million, compared with consensus estimates of $136 million, according to FactSet.

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☆ The New Terms of Abortion Politics
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-01 | by ( The Run-Up | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

The Dobbs decision upended political calculations on both sides of the abortion debate. Democrats used the issue as evidence of Republican extremism, and it cost the G.O.P. seats in the 2022 midterms. Now, with a presidential primary looming, abortion activists have an opportunity to reset their strategies for 2024 and roll out new litmus tests for their respective candidates. This week, Marjorie Dannenfelser, president of Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America, and Alexis McGill Johnson, head of Planned Parenthood, on how they’re trying to reshape the abortion debate in the U.S.

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☆ Argentina eases access to 'morning after pill', broadening reproductive rights
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-31 | by ( Anna-Catherine Brigida | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

The Catholic country and homeland of Pope Francis approved a law allowing abortion up to 14 weeks in December 2020, part of a wave of liberalizing legislation around the region, even as the United States further north has seen abortion access tightened. In the official bulletin, the health ministry wrote that the measure would help avoid unintentional pregnancy by helping overcome "difficulties of access to health services, contraception supplies, and education" faced by some. "This removes an important barrier to access," Valeria Isla, director of sexual and reproductive health at the Health Ministry, told Reuters. The day-after pill is available without a prescription in at least 70 countries, including the United States. "For a long time it was thought to induce an abortion, which is not true," Gagliardi said, referring to the common criticism of emergency contraception from pro-life groups.

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☆ Larger Screens, Heated Seats, Sushi: Theater Owners Want You Back
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-31 | by ( Jane Margolies | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Theaters are installing heated lounge chairs that fully recline or have built-in trays and buttons to summon waiters. Some auditoriums now have screens on the sides as well as at the front. One outside Fort Worth built a gangplank 22 feet above an arcade floor — walk it if you dare. Another in Dobbs Ferry, N.Y., has a kitchen and lobby bar with TV screens so a customer can, say, catch the end of a ballgame before the feature starts. But they tried the Dobbs Ferry venue, part of the Look Dine-In Cinemas chain, after it opened, sharing a pizza and a salad before “80 for Brady.”“It felt like a real date night,” she said.

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☆ How Did the Dobbs Decision Change Your Life? - The New York Times
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-25 | by ( Lauren Kelley | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

There’s an argument you used to hear back when the death of Roe v. Wade was looming but had not yet occurred. Nearly a year after the Supreme Court handed down its decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, that is not what has come to pass. There are dozens of legal cases underway around the country, both challenging abortion access and challenging efforts to bar abortion access. Times Opinion wants to know how the end of Roe v. Wade has reshaped the lives of readers. Do you feel differently about the morality of abortion — or about whether it should be a federal legal right — than you did before?

Persons: Roe, Wade Organizations: Supreme Court, Jackson, Health Organization Locations: Dobbs v

☆ Abortion fallout: Connecticut Supreme Court pick drops out due to Amy Coney Barrett letter
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-19 | by ( Dan Mangan | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +1 min

Supreme Court nominee and U.S. Court of Appeals Judge Amy Coney Barrett on Capitol Hill in Washington, October 21, 2020. A federal prosecutor on Friday removed her name from consideration for a seat on the Connecticut Supreme Court after blowback from legislators over a 2017 letter she signed in support of Amy Coney Barrett, who is now a U.S. Supreme Court justice. The state expanded access to abortion on the heels of the controversial U.S. Supreme Court decision last summer in the case known as Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization. "Looking back and knowing what I now know, I shouldn't have signed it," Glover testified about the letter, which was signed by every U.S. Supreme Court clerk who worked during that court's 1998-99 term. At the time, Glover was a clerk that term for Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, and Barrett was a clerk for the late Justice Antonin Scalia.

☆ Trump is right: He's directly responsible for the state of abortion access in the country. He's also the source of the backlash against it
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-17 | by ( Madison Hall | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Trump said on Wednesday that he alone is responsible for the progress the anti-abortion movement has made in recent years. "Without me the pro Life movement would have just kept losing," Trump posted to Truth Social. Thank you President TRUMP!!!" Ultimately, Trump's Wednesday Truth Social post is true — there isn't anyone currently more responsible for the current state of abortion rights in America. But don't expect a Truth Social post about that anytime soon.

☆ Fertility app fined $200,000 for leaking customers health data
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-17 | by ( Brian Fung | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

CNN —The company behind a popular fertility app has agreed to pay $200,000 in federal and state fines after authorities alleged that it had shared users’ personal health information for years without their consent, including to Google and to two companies based in China. Wednesday’s proposed settlement targeting Premom highlights how regulators have stepped up their scrutiny of fertility trackers and health information in the wake of the US Supreme Court’s decision last year striking down federal protections for abortion. In addition, Premom allegedly shared location information and device identifiers — such as WiFi network names and hardware IDs — with two China-based data analytics companies, known as Jiguang and Umeng, according to the complaint. That information, the FTC alleged, “could be used to identify Premom’s users and disclose to third parties that these users were utilizing a fertility app,” according to an FTC complaint filed against Easy Healthcare, Premom’s parent company. “We will vigorously enforce the Health Breach Notification Rule to defend consumer’s health data from exploitation.”

☆ $787 million settlement with Fox News rested on an unwritten agreement to fire Tucker Carlson: Variety
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-16 | by ( Brent D. Griffiths | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Tucker Carlson's ouster at Fox News was reportedly linked to a secret deal with Dominion Voting Systems. According to Variety, Dominion made Carlson's departure an unwritten condition of its settlement with Fox. Variety cited multiple unnamed sources who were aware of an April 26 conversation Carlson had with an unnamed member of Fox Corporation's board who reportedly told Carlson about the agreement. Instead, Carlson's ouster as the highest-rated cable news host was based on a verbal agreement. "That condition was intended to hurt Fox, and Tucker is just collateral damage," a source told Variety.

☆ Jane Roberts' anti-abortion advocacy helped her husband, Chief Justice John Roberts, land his spot on the Supreme Court years before Roe v. Wade was overturned
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-13 | by ( Erin Snodgrass | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +11 min

Chief Justice John Roberts' wife's anti-abortion advocacy once helped bolster his judicial career. Details of Jane Roberts' work, though not new, are worth revisiting in the aftermath of Roe v. Wade's reversal. Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts and his wife Jane exit the funeral service for Antonin Scalia. Jane Roberts' advocacy and public political beliefs ultimately helped convince two conservative legal power players, Leonard Leo and Jay Sekulow, to publicly advocate for John Roberts' confirmation, according to the Times. Photo by Alex Wong/Getty ImagesAt the time of John Roberts' nomination, liberals feared he might pose a threat to Roe v. Wade.

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