ST. LOUIS - Lawmakers in Congress are reintroducing the Women s Health Protection Act, which would ensure a pregnant person s right to access - and a doctor s right to provide - abortions without adding restrictions that are medically unnecessary. Angie Postal, vice president for education, policy and community engagement at the Advocates for Planned Parenthood of the St. .
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. - Lawmakers in Congress have reintroduced a bill they say would ensure access to safe abortions across the country, just as abortion rights are being challenged with a strict Mississippi law that will be reviewed by the U.S. Supreme Court in 2022. .
New Poll Finds Opposition to Trans Athletes But Is It an Outlier? May 26 2021 7:18 PM EDT
A new poll from Gallup shows a majority of respondents saying transgender athletes should compete under their birth gender contrary to some other polls and possibly influenced by widespread anti-trans rhetoric.
Sixty-two percent of respondents said trans athletes should play on teams only for the gender they were assigned at birth, while 34 percent said they should be able to compete under their gender identity, with 4 percent having no opinion. Support for the birth gender option was highest among Republicans, with 86 percent, while it had the support of 63 percent of independents. A majority of Democrats favored the gender identity option 55 percent.