Control of the Senate is also crucial because the Democratic-controlled Judiciary Committee last year subpoenaed Leo to talk about whether he was involved in gifts to members of the Supreme Court by prominent Republican donors...
Showing posts with label Roe v. Wade. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Roe v. Wade. Show all posts
Saturday, September 21, 2024
Opinion | The Man Behind the End of Roe v. Wade Has Big Plans for America - The New York Times
Capturing the presidency is important to Leo not only for policy and ideological reasons, but also because, if Donald Trump is elected, he will appoint the next I.R.S. commissioner. It would be very unlikely that such an appointee would pursue an investigation into Leo's finances.
Thursday, May 2, 2024
Meet the People Who Got Roe v. Wade Overturned
An abortion is a procedure to end a pregnancy. It can be done two different ways: Medication abortion, which uses medicines to end the pregnancy. It is sometimes called a "medical abortion" or "abortion with pills." Procedural abortion, a procedure to remove the pregnancy from the uterus. It is sometimes called a "surgical abortion."
Wednesday, February 21, 2024
'We’re getting slaughtered': Ann Coulter rips religious 'zealots' for sinking GOP - Raw Story
Coulter, during an appearance on Bill Maher's HBO show "Real Time," argued that religious "zealots" are causing Republicans to lose elections they should be winning. The subject came up during a discussion of Republicans losing ground among young female voters…
Saturday, February 17, 2024
Thursday, January 25, 2024
Harris attacks Trump over Roe v Wade at first campaign rally with Biden
"Extremists have proposed and passed laws that criminalized doctors and punished women. Laws that make no exception even for rape or incest," said Harris, who spoke first, before the US president.
Tuesday, January 23, 2024
Thursday, October 26, 2023
Abortion is still under threat by dark money groups that helped overturn Roe
Dark money groups help conceal who is behind the influx of cash and the political agendas of a wealthy donor, group, or corporation. For example, without looking into the Concord Fund, a major PWO donor, the average person would not realize its ties to anti-abortion lawyer Leonard Leo – the man who helped pick the supreme court justices who overturned Roe v Wade. In this particular context, such front groups help hide who is trying to influence the political outcome in Ohio's Issue 1…
Thursday, September 14, 2023
The End of Roe Is Having a Chilling Effect on Pregnancy - POLITICO
New polling shows that a third of young women say they have decided not to get pregnant because of concerns about maternal health care after Dobbs...
Tuesday, June 27, 2023
Why the Supreme Court Really Killed Roe v. Wade - POLITICO
Abortion opponents gained an ally in Leonard Leo, an attorney who had helped Thomas during his 1991 confirmation hearings. By 2001, Leo had become the head of the Federalist Society's lawyers' division, was profoundly opposed to legal abortion and wanted to dethrone the American Bar Association from its traditional role rating judicial nominees — which activists saw, as Leo put it, as rejecting conservative judges "on ideological grounds." In building new networks between movements and judges, and devising more sure-fire selection methods, Leo became both a patron and an entrepreneur…
Following the election of George W. Bush, Leo joined three other men in a group that called itself the Four Horsemen; the group included not only Republican legal veterans like C. Boyden Gray and Edwin Meese III but also prominent Christian conservative Jay Sekulow of the American Center for Law and Justice. Leo, who had long worked as a Republican Party liaison with Catholics, helped steer John Roberts' Supreme Court nomination through the Senate…
Leo, meanwhile, went on to gain further influence, helping choose the three Trump Supreme Court picks who would ultimately overturn Roe. The money has also flowed: He obtained a $1.6 billion donation last year from a wealthy conservative businessman named Barre Seid for his legal network, likely the largest political gift in American history…
A critical facet of this story is that a number of conservative grassroots objectives are broadly unpopular, from the recognition of an almost unlimited right to bear arms to the recognition of fetal personhood that would make abortion unconstitutional nationwide. This is an important reason why judicial entrenchment is so attractive to minoritarian interests: They can win by appealing to a handful of judges even when they lose decisively and repeatedly through the political process…
Sunday, June 25, 2023
Abortion is a Religious Right (Bradley Onishi and Daniel Miller; Straight White American Jesus podcast)
Brad and Dan dedicate this episode to discussing the state of reproductive rights, activism, and law one year since the overturning of Roe v. Wade. Brad begins by going through the numbers on support for abortion in the country, policy and campaign surprises since Roe’s fall, and the ways Democrats and Republicans have responded.
In the second segment Dan outlines the American religious groups who are suing to have abortion bans overturned in their states on the basis of religious freedom. The argument: abortion is a religious right that is part of their religious practice.
This leads to a broader discussion of how law and religion work in the USA and why using religion as a means of policy change is so effective.
Interview:
In the second segment Dan outlines the American religious groups who are suing to have abortion bans overturned in their states on the basis of religious freedom. The argument: abortion is a religious right that is part of their religious practice.
This leads to a broader discussion of how law and religion work in the USA and why using religion as a means of policy change is so effective.
Interview:
Friday, June 23, 2023
10 surprises since Roe v. Wade fell - POLITICO
But several developments defied predictions: Conservative lawmakers at the state and federal levels have struggled to agree on the parameters of abortion bans, while progressive groups have clashed over how far to go in expanding access. Doctors in states with bans have reported hesitancy around providing even legal care because of vague new policies and the fear of prosecution. Voters in Kansas, Kentucky and Montana rejected attempts to curtail access, and Democrats held the Senate in part because of their promise to protect abortion rights...
Thursday, June 15, 2023
Record-high 69 percent in new poll say first-trimester abortion should be legal | The Hill
Support for abortion access in the second and third trimester of pregnancy also reached an all-time high, according to the surve…
The poll finds support for at least some legal abortion, increasing polarization : NPR
A year after Dobbs, 61% of respondents said overturning Roe was a "bad thing," while 38% said it was a "good thing." …
Thursday, March 2, 2023
Jessa Duggar Seewald Got A D&C After A Miscarriage, A Procedure Out Of Reach For Many After Roe v. Wade Was Overturned
An estimated 26% of pregnancies end in miscarriage, and the D&C procedure is crucial to care for many kinds of pregnancy termination, including elective abortion. Here's what you need to know about the D&C procedure, and how abortion restrictions can affect people looking for treatment…
Wednesday, September 21, 2022
They overturned Roe and, amid the chaos, gutted 12 more rights and freedoms you might have missed
These 12 decisions demonstrate why the legitimacy of the court is in question. It's not "simply because people disagree with an opinion," as Chief Justice John Roberts whined earlier this month. It's because the radical, extreme majority has been dismantling core tenets of the Constitution and settled law, undermining the will of the majority of Americans, throwing out decades—even centuries—of precedent, and demonstrating that it is an existential threat to the rule of law.
The court's next term, starting in just two weeks, will feature cases that threaten LGBTQ rights, environmental safety, election integrity, affirmative action, and more. That includes Moore v. Harper, an effort by Republican legislators in North Carolina to declare themselves the sole arbiters of federal elections, putting them above the state's constitution and the state's courts. The specious and radical theory they're arguing—the "independent state legislature" theory—is based on an early 19th-century document that "is a well-known fake." In other words: fraud…
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/9/19/2123887/-They-overturned-Roe-and-in-the-chaos-gutted-12-more-rights-and-freedoms-you-might-have-missed
The court's next term, starting in just two weeks, will feature cases that threaten LGBTQ rights, environmental safety, election integrity, affirmative action, and more. That includes Moore v. Harper, an effort by Republican legislators in North Carolina to declare themselves the sole arbiters of federal elections, putting them above the state's constitution and the state's courts. The specious and radical theory they're arguing—the "independent state legislature" theory—is based on an early 19th-century document that "is a well-known fake." In other words: fraud…
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/9/19/2123887/-They-overturned-Roe-and-in-the-chaos-gutted-12-more-rights-and-freedoms-you-might-have-missed
Monday, May 9, 2022
Forced Birth or Freedom — with Kurt Bardella, Eric Goldman, and Cliff Schecter (The Mary Trump Show)
Mary Trump sounds off on the terrible decision leaked from the Supreme Court that would overturn Roe V. Wade. Together with strategists Eric Goldman, Cliff Schecter, and Kurt Bardella, she lays out the threats to our very notions of freedom and a constitutional republic, how to reclaim the language of America from the Right, and fight back with our values using 21st century communication techniques.
Interview:
Wednesday, April 13, 2022
GOP readies strategy in case Roe v. Wade is overturned | The Hill
…The Republican Study Committee, the largest conservative caucus in the house, sent a messaging memo last week that advised members to communicate the message that "the Left holds the extremist position" on abortion…
Monday, May 3, 2021
Targeting Roe v. Wade, GOP Has Launched 'Unprecedented' Attack on Abortion Rights in 2021 | Common Dreams News
"We're seeing right-wing ideologues engaging in a shock and awe campaign against abortion rights as part of a large and deliberate attack on basic rights that also includes a wave of voter suppression laws and attacks on LGBTQ people," said Nash, the institute's principal policy associate, in a statement to The Hill.
Wednesday, April 7, 2021
Opinion | The Authoritarian Plan for a National Abortion Ban - The New York Times
Some on the right want the Supreme Court to go beyond ending Roe...
Saturday, October 3, 2020
Why flailing Republicans are lying about Roe v. Wade
Chris Hayes: “Why are Republicans like Joni Ernst and the President lying about something so obvious? Because overturning Roe v. Wade is deeply unpopular.”
https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/why-flailing-republicans-are-lying-about-roe-v-wade-92974661509
https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/why-flailing-republicans-are-lying-about-roe-v-wade-92974661509
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