Abcarian: Trump would allow RFK Jr. to infect the body politic with crackpot theories
After all the votes are counted, no matter who wins, the empowering of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. by Donald Trump will be one of the…
Study: More women charged with pregnancy-related crime since Roe’s end
It became more common for authorities to charge women with crimes related to their pregnancies after the fall of Roe vs. Wade in 2022, a…
Harris spotlights woman’s death to blast abortion bans and Trump
ATLANTA — Kamala Harris blasted Donald Trump as a threat to women’s freedoms and their very lives, warning in a speech in the battleground state of…
Arizona’s 1864 abortion ban is officially off the books
PHOENIX — Arizona’s Civil War-era ban on nearly all abortions officially was repealed Saturday.The Western swing state has been whipsawed over recent months, starting with the…
Dozens of pregnant patients turned away from ERs despite federal law
WASHINGTON — Bleeding and in pain, Kyleigh Thurman didn’t know her doomed pregnancy could kill her.Emergency room doctors at Ascension Seton Williamson in Texas handed her…
Abortion-rights measure appears headed for November ballot in Arizona
PHOENIX — Arizona abortion rights supporters on Wednesday turned in more than double the signatures needed to put the issue on November’s ballot in the key…
The Arizona political couple on opposite ends of 1864 abortion ban
Before she voted to repeal Arizona’s near-total abortion ban, Sen. Shawnna Bolick rose from her seat on the Senate floor to painstakingly detail one woman’s…
Florida’s 6-week abortion ban takes effect as doctors voice alarm
BOCA RATON, Fla. — Florida’s ban on most abortions after six weeks of pregnancy, before many women even know they are pregnant, went into effect Wednesday,…
Newsom calls out Republican abortion policies in Alabama ad
In Gov. Gavin Newsom’s new political advertisement, two anxious young women in an SUV drive toward the Alabama state line. The passenger says she thinks…
Arizona’s abortion ban is worse than its 19th century origins
Arizona’s Supreme Court opened a new front in the war on women’s reproductive rights last week when it resurrected an obscure 1864 law that bans…
Arizona’s 1864 abortion ban was modeled on California’s
It was the era of the Wild West, when white men from back East were flooding into Arizona to reap the golden bounty of the…
Review: Abortion bans make ‘Spring Awakening’ even more relevant
Since winning the 2007 Tony Award for best musical, “Spring Awakening” has only grown more excruciatingly relevant. Book bans in schools censoring anything that might…