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The House GOP majority plans to vote this week on three measures aimed at emphasizing its opposition to abortion, including a rules package that will fast-track consideration of legislation permanently banning federal funding of abortion.
For months, the midterm elections appeared to be a clash over rising prices, public safety worries and fears of a looming recession.
But another driving issue proved almost as powerful for voters: abortion rights.
Multiple Democratic lawmakers were arrested at an abortion rights rally near the Capitol on Tuesday, less than one month after the Supreme Court issued a ruling that reversed Roe v. Wade.
The U.S. House plans to vote this week on a bill introduced by North Carolina’s Rep. Kathy Manning to protect a person’s right to access contraception.
The Supreme Court on Friday overturned its landmark decision in Roe v. Wade that established the right to an abortion, with a ruling that marks a seismic shift in abortion law and will usher in new rules limiting or banning access to the procedure in half of the states, in some places immediately.
The U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade on Friday morning, however access to abortions remains protected in Colorado — one of 16 states that has enshrined it into state law.
Republicans in Congress were jubilant at the U.S.
In this piece, originally published in May 2022, five members of Congress gathered to discuss their personal abortion stories. Today, June 24, 2022, we revisit their words, as the Supreme Court overturns Roe v.
A group of Black women in Congress are urging President Joe Biden to take urgent action to protect abortion rights, as the Supreme Court overturns Roe v.