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More than 130 House Democrats are pressing the Department of Veterans Affairs to maintain a policy enabling veterans to access abortion care and counseling as part of their medical benefits.
Today at SXSW, Rep. Ayanna Pressley (D-MA) joined The Emancipator’s Amber Payne to talk about reproductive justice, advocacy, and community. They talked about Pressley’s work in Washington representing Massachusetts’ 7th Congressional District, and how she infuses her work with love and care.
Rep. Lois Frankel (D-Fla.) is the lead sponsor of the recently introduced Global Health, Empowerment, and Rights (HER) Act.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said Wednesday he would study the abortion pill mifepristone for "safety issues" if confirmed to lead the Department of Health and Human Services.
Newsweek reached out to the White House for comment via email.
It didn’t all happen on Day 1.
But by the end of his first full week in office, President Trump waded back into an issue that he finds particularly politically treacherous: abortion.
Members of the U.S. House Committee on Oversight and Accountability are asking Texas’ maternal mortality committee to brief them on the controversial decision to not review pregnancy and childbirth related deaths from the first two years after the state banned nearly all abortions.
“Free riders” can be considered to be the people who join a group dinner just for the free food or the neighbor who enjoys a community event but never helps organize it. In politics, a “rider” isn’t a person but a small, often hard-to-spot provision that hitchhikes on a bigger bill, quietly steering policy in a particular direction.
