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New Hampshire voters have spoken, and it seems increasingly clear that this November’s election will pit President Joe Biden against former President Donald Trump. Both appear to be making health a key part of their campaigns, with Trump vowing (again) to repeal the Affordable Care Act, and Biden stressing his support for contraception and abortion rights. Meanwhile, both candidates will try to highlight efforts to rein in prescription drug prices. Alice Miranda Ollstein of Politico, Anna Edne...

Life News

On Saturday’s edition of PBS News Weekend, the abortion expert relied upon by PBS, professor Mary Ziegler, made an embarrassing flub of a basic fact, apparently confusing the Hyde Amendment of 1976, which outlawed federal funding for abortion, to the Comstock Act of 1873, making Ziegler just over a century off.

And the Patriot Front boys joined in on the so-called "Right to Life" march. When they tell you who they are, believe them.

U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson spoke at Friday's anti-abortion March for Life, at which speakers addressed their desire for a national abortion ban.

As Biden unveils blitz of events to mark 1973 ruling, conservatives try to stage comeback after key ballot failures

As Biden unveils blitz of events to mark 1973 ruling, conservatives try to stage comeback after string of ballot failures

It’s the 51st anniversary of Roe v. Wade, and between looming court decisions and messy ballot fights, 2024 will be another crucial year in our post-Roe world.

Abortion foes are trying to weaponize the Comstock Act, a draconian 19th-century law still on the books, in ways that could make it the greatest threat to reproductive rights in America, write law professors David S. Cohen, Greer Donley and Rachel Rebouché, who argue the law must be repealed as soon as possible. Allowing it to remain on the books is too dangerous and the stakes are too high, they say.

Abortion foes are trying to weaponize the Comstock Act, a draconian 19th-century law still on the books, in ways that could make it the greatest threat to reproductive rights in America, write law professors David S. Cohen, Greer Donley and Rachel Rebouché, who argue the law must be repealed as soon as possible. Allowing it to remain on the books is too dangerous and the stakes are too high, they say.