ABORTION

‘Gut punch after gut punch’: IVF patients speak out after Alabama ruling
by The 19th
| February 28, 2024
IVF patients speak out after Alabama ruling regarding IVF embryos. Here's what you need to know about the Alabama Supreme Court's IVF ruling.

Not just abortion: IVF ruling next phase in the right’s war on reproductive freedom
| February 27, 2024
The Alabama Supreme Court directly cited the Dobbs decision—in which the US Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade—in its ruling that effectively bans IVF in the state. But amid furious public backlash, Donald Trump and Republicans have raced to distance themselves from the ruling they made possible.

Biden blasts Trump’s support of a nationwide abortion ban
| February 20, 2024
President Joe Biden took Trump to task for his support of a nationwide abortion ban and his role in repealing Roe v. Wade, criticizing him for “taking away women’s freedom,” putting women’s lives in danger, and unleashing “cruelty and chaos all across America.”

Republicans want to use a 150-year-old law to ban abortion nationwide
| February 13, 2024
Project 2025, a conservative blueprint for a second Trump administration, calls for the Justice Department to start enforcing the Comstock Act of 1873. The old law bans the mailing of “anything designed, adapted, or intended for producing abortion,” which could include medical instruments.