13 years ago this week a right-wing anti abortion group called operational rescue, emailed its members encouraging them to participate in the special hollowing contest. it was known as the nancy pelosi and harry reid burn in hell competition. yes, really. operation rescue included a video showing step-by-step how you could make your very own nancy pelosi and harry reid effigy. they even showed you how to burn the effigy once you made it. the whole thing was supposedly a protest about abortion related aspects of the affordable care act. the winner of the contest would receive an all expense paid trip to d. c. just burn that effigy. i m not showing you this because the contest was particularly impactful in anyway. it wasn t. this was a fringe group in 2009 taking dangerous political rhetoric about political figures like reid and pelosi to a new and discussing extreme. but the fact that there were not mass effigy burning across the country is not the point. the worry is not th
good morning. it is saturday, july 30th. i m michael steele in for my friend ali velshi. the january six select committee s historic public hearings may be done for the short term. but, the investigation into the insurrection continues on multiple fronts. the two former senior officials at the center of the latest leaked controversial chad wulf, and former beauty secretary, ken cuccinelli, has responded to a report in the washington post but their text messages leading him to january 6th and vanished. by saying, they did not do it. both former officials took to twitter to blame the former department they worked for, dhs, for the missing text. with wolf adding, quote, dhs has all my texts, emails, phone logs, and schedules. speaking of wolf, the ap report of the select committee has reached out to him could potentially appear. as an act of talks are looking to bring in another high-ranking trump official, including the former director of national intelligence, john ratcliffe
A lawsuit filed this week by anti-abortion group “Voices for Life” seeks to regain access to Indiana abortion records that are no longer being released by the state health department. The South Bend-based group is suing the Indiana Department of Health (IDOH) after it stopped releasing individual Terminated Pregnancy Reports (TPRs), while still compiling statewide […] The post Anti-abortion group sues Indiana health department for access to abortion records appeared first on Indiana Capital Chro
Former President Trump declined to take a position on a potential federal abortion ban Monday and instead acknowledged the issue is being left to the states as he looks to navigate the politically fraught issue ahead of November. Trump’s lack of an explicit endorsement drew criticism from some on the right, including a prominent anti-abortion…
Tennessee could soon become the latest state to require public school students to watch a three-minute AI-generated video on fetal development created by an anti-abortion group.