Column: Watch for even small shifts in Texas politics. Sometimes tectonic movements follow
Waskom, Texas, is an old railroad town of about 2,000 nestled at the midway point between Dallas and Shreveport, La. According to the city’s website,…
Faction of ‘abolitionists’ wants women who have abortions to face criminal charges
WASHINGTON — As Kristan Hawkins, president of the national antiabortion group Students for Life, tours college campuses, she has grown accustomed to counterprotests from abortion rights activists.But…
Planned Parenthood St. Louis resumes surgical abortions, while Missouri blocks others
COLUMBIA, Mo. — Planned Parenthood on Thursday resumed surgical abortions in St. Louis, months after voters in November enshrined abortion rights in the Missouri Constitution. The same…
New York doctor indicted for prescribing abortion pill in Louisiana
BATON ROUGE, La. — A New York doctor was indicted by a Louisiana grand jury Friday on allegations that she prescribed an abortion pill online in the…
Trump, Vance join antiabortion activists in celebrating movement wins
WASHINGTON — President Trump vowed to support antiabortion-rights protesters in his second term as tens of thousands of demonstrators rallied in Washington on Friday.“We will again…
Opinion: What antiabortion activists want next
The state of Texas filed a major lawsuit on Dec. 12 against a New York doctor who mailed abortion pills to a Collin County, Texas,…
Texas sues New York doctor for prescribing abortion pills via telemedicine
In suing a New York doctor for prescribing abortion pills to a woman near Dallas, Texas has launched one of the first challenges in the…
Opinion: Evangelical Christians’ long road to Donald Trump
We don’t yet know the precise numbers, but it appears once again that four out of five white evangelicals voted for Donald Trump in the…
How both Trump and abortion access won the 2024 election
PHOENIX — Abortion access was on the ballot Tuesday and voters supported it in seven of 10 states nationwide, giving an overwhelming win for the abortion…
Trump and Harris head to Texas seeking to sway voters on abortion, border security
Deadlocked in the polls less than two weeks before election day, Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Trump head to staunchly Republican Texas on…
Harris ad features Texas woman who nearly died amid strict abortion ban
WASHINGTON — A new series of Kamala Harris campaign ads seek to highlight increasingly perilous medical care for women since the fall of Roe vs. Wade…
Here are 4 campaign promises from Harris. What are their chances if she wins?
As she runs the most truncated presidential campaign in modern American history, Vice President Kamala Harris has made lofty promises on issues that polls show…
Melania Trump’s abortion defense shows how the GOP ignores women
It pays to listen to women.Republicans have repeatedly ignored that adage, as evident in their demolition of Roe vs. Wade, opposition to IVF and contraception,…
Study: More women charged with pregnancy-related crime since Roe’s end
It became more common for authorities to charge women with crimes related to their pregnancies after the fall of Roe vs. Wade in 2022, a…
Trump calls for universal coverage of IVF treatment, offers no specifics
POTTERVILLE, Mich. — Former President Trump says that, if he wins a second term, he wants to make IVF treatment free, but he did not say…
Trump would veto a federal abortion ban, Vance says
NEW YORK — Republican vice presidential candidate JD Vance says Donald Trump would not support a national abortion ban if elected president and would veto such…
What drives one of America’s few late-term abortion doctors
Warren Hern is every bit as intense as you would expect of someone who has been threatened with death for most of his career.One of…
Trump promises to ‘save’ America with mix of lofty, vague policies
The way former President Trump tells it, the United States is a “crime-ridden mess” with “the worst border in the history of the world,” simultaneously…
How Trump and Republicans are gaslighting women voters
When it comes to abortion, Republicans are doing nothing less than gaslighting America. Well aware that the divisive issue could be their Achilles’ heel in…
Opinion: The Republican Party’s bait and switch on abortion
When Republicans affirmed their party’s platform this week, it included a supposedly moderated position on abortion. Don’t believe it.For decades, the GOP has explicitly pledged…