Results for: abortion

Durbin to progressives: Come on, we're not gonna impeach SCOTUS justices
https://hotair.com/ed-morrissey/2022/07/11/durbin-to-progressives-come-on-were-not-gonna-impeach-scotus-justices-n481880
– After all, Dobbs didn’t make abortion illegal — it simply returned that policy question to the states and to the people.…
Harvard-Harris: 60% of Dems and 75% of women want abortion limits sooner than imagined
https://hotair.com/ed-morrissey/2022/07/11/harvard-harris-60…5-of-women-want-abortion-limits-sooner-than-imagined-n481860
– Not according to the Harvard-Harris poll taken in June, when the issue of abortion became most acute. … That in itself is noteworthy, especially for those who foresee a civil war coming out of the abortion issue. … By far the most popular combination is to limit abortion to 15 weeks.…
Too fun to check: Does Harris even *want* to be president?
https://hotair.com/ed-morrissey/2022/07/10/too-fun-to-check-does-harris-even-want-to-be-president-n481807
– There hasn’t been an election cycle since 1980 where Democrats have not made protection and expansion of abortion a front-and-center … In 2016 and 2020, Democrats campaigned not on the idea that Roe and Casey had “settled” abortion but to change those “settled” cases … Indeed, when the Fourteenth Amendment was adopted, three quarters of the States made abortion a crime at all stages of pregnancy.…
Liberals fume after White House criticizes "out of step" pro-choice activists
https://hotair.com/allahpundit/2022/07/10/liberals-fume-afte…te-house-criticizes-out-of-step-pro-choice-activists-n481824
– Biden’s getting a noseful of that right now from his own base on abortion. … Democrats will never again have the full loaf of abortion rights they had under Roe. … that is less expansive than what had been covered by Roe is a “setback” for abortion rights.…
Dems who support Roe: Eh, we might not vote this fall
https://hotair.com/allahpundit/2022/07/29/dems-who-support-roe-eh-we-might-not-vote-this-fall-n486144
– Amid the big primaries on Tuesday night in Arizona and Missouri, Kansas will hold a referendum on whether the right to abortion that … On the other hand, national polls on this subject may be only so useful given the state-by-state dynamics of abortion. … There’s another complication for righties, namely that public opinion on Dobbs and abortion isn’t necessarily static.…
Alito to Prince Harry: Pound sand
https://hotair.com/ed-morrissey/2022/07/29/alito-to-prince-harry-pound-sand-n486026
– Worth noting: the abortion laws in France and the UK would not have been allowed under Roe and Casey. … — and not just abortion, actually. … Perhaps we should ask Trudeau why Canada has the same abortion policies as North Korea and China.…
Did cancel culture stop Clarence Thomas from teaching at George Washington University?
https://hotair.com/karen-townsend/2022/07/28/did-cancel-cult…thomas-from-teaching-at-george-washington-university-n485761
– His opinion, which was not in the opinion of Justice Alito, alarmed abortion supporters who expect the conservative-leaning majority … Do abortion-supporting students only appreciate the success of liberals rising from humble beginnings and not conservatives?…
Biden allies: Where the hell is Absent Joe?
https://hotair.com/ed-morrissey/2022/07/28/biden-allies-where-the-hell-is-absent-joe-n485769
– rights would snap into place all across the country and that Republican legislatures would get to work—on not just the next wave of abortion
The countdown begins for Texas abortion trigger law
https://hotair.com/karen-townsend/2022/07/27/the-countdown-begins-for-texas-abortion-trigger-law-n485461
– There is no constitutional right to abortion. … It allowed everyday citizens to file lawsuits against abortion providers who violated the law and those who aided in an abortion. … The only way for abortion proponents to go back to a federal right to an abortion is for Congress to codify Roe v Wade.…
Top House Dem: This GOP is the party of Marge Greene and Lauren Boebert, not Paul Ryan and John Boehner
https://hotair.com/allahpundit/2022/07/27/top-house-dem-this…ne-and-lauren-boebert-not-paul-ryan-and-john-boehner-n485577
– focus group data which shows a stronger and more lasting than expected resonance to recent Republican moves, particularly around abortion … Republicans, the presentation argues, will criminalize abortion and roll back marriage rights, end Social Security and Medicare, and…
Hoo boy: Biden trails Buttigieg in 2024 New Hampshire primary poll
https://hotair.com/allahpundit/2022/07/26/hoo-boy-biden-trails-buttigieg-in-2024-new-hampshire-primary-poll-n485276
– Scapegoating him for the end of constitutional abortion rights is silly as a matter of logic but understandable inasmuch as Dobbs is…
CNN: Roberts lobbied Kavanaugh to save Roe -- but the leak made it "all but impossible"
https://hotair.com/allahpundit/2022/07/26/cnn-roberts-lobbie…to-save-roe-but-the-leak-made-it-all-but-impossible-n485233
– claims Roberts continued to try to save Roe “to the bitter end,” preferring a ruling that would have upheld Mississippi’s 15-week abortion
South Carolina bill would criminalize websites that provide information on how to get an abortion
https://hotair.com/allahpundit/2022/07/25/south-carolina-bil…s-that-provide-information-on-how-to-get-an-abortion-n485064
– to an abortion provider, knowing that the referral will result, or is reasonably likely to result, in an abortion The paradigm case … Is every website on the Internet with information about local abortion providers now a criminal offense in South Carolina? … Certainly, if abortion is illegal in South Carolina, the state can take steps to prohibit a conspiracy to provide an abortion within…
University of Michigan med students stage walk-out during pro-life professor's keynote speech
https://hotair.com/karen-townsend/2022/07/25/university-of-m…e-walk-out-during-pro-life-professors-keynote-speech-n484963
– and supports the non-universal, theology-rooted platform to restrict abortion access, an essential part of medical care. … Abortion is legal in Michigan, for now. … Michigan Medicine, the University of Michigan-owned center, continues to provide abortion services.…
Grand jury indicts illegal immigrant on felony rape charges in case of 10 year old girl in Ohio
https://hotair.com/karen-townsend/2022/07/25/grand-jury-indi…ony-rape-charges-in-case-of-10-year-old-girl-in-ohio-n484888
Abortion activists exploited a pregnant 10-year-old girl to make a case that abortion is a national issue, not a state’s rights issue … favor of access to abortion. … There are exceptions to Ohio’s abortion law.…
SCOTUS and media silence: Whatever happened to the leak probe?
https://hotair.com/ed-morrissey/2022/07/25/scotus-and-media-silence-whatever-happened-to-the-leak-probe-n484995
– Wade and end federal protection of abortion rights had been leaked and published. … leak was an incredibly rare event and, if the document was confirmed as authentic, the decision would reshape women’s access to abortion
"American tsunami": The GOP could pick up 70 seats in the House this fall, says Gingrich
https://hotair.com/allahpundit/2022/07/25/american-tsunami-t…ick-up-70-seats-in-the-house-this-fall-says-gingrich-n484966
– There’s just little evidence at the moment that the party’s elected officials share it on the hottest cultural dispute of all, abortion … My guess is that Newt himself continues to support a total abortion ban and opposes legal SSM notwithstanding his counsel to the party…
More Kamala: Pregnancies are a crisis in America, you know
https://hotair.com/ed-morrissey/2022/07/25/more-kamala-pregnancies-are-a-crisis-in-america-you-know-n484958
– In trying to make a case for pushing abortion-rights legislation, Harris ends up making fertility and motherhood sound like a public … The Dobbs decision returned the issue to legislatures; it didn’t make abortion illegal. … There’s no contradiction in pursuing legal abortion through legislative action.…
AP/NORC poll: Two-thirds of Americans want SCOTUS term limits and/or forced retirement
https://hotair.com/ed-morrissey/2022/07/25/ap-norc-poll-two…ans-want-scotus-term-limits-and-or-forced-retirement-n484944
– conducted just weeks after the high court issued high-profile rulings including stripping away women’s constitutional protections for abortion … The poll also shows more Americans disapprove than approve of the court’s abortion decision, with just over half saying the decision…
Would it help Democrats if Biden announced his retirement before the midterms?
https://hotair.com/allahpundit/2022/07/24/would-it-help-demo…f-biden-announced-his-retirement-before-the-midterms-n484838
– I am not sure it would save one or both majorities, but it certainly has the potential to have a greater impact than abortion, guns…
Kagan: SCOTUS should reflect public opinion to retain its credibility
https://hotair.com/ed-morrissey/2022/07/23/kagan-scotus-should-reflect-public-opinion-to-retain-its-credibility-n484691
– Wade decision that legalized abortion nationwide, Kagan stressed the importance of the justices staying in their proper roles as judges … authored by Stephen Breyer was remarkable for its absence of a defense of Roe and a legal explication of the supposed right to abortion
"That's where it gets weird": The best comic allegory on abortion ever
https://hotair.com/ed-morrissey/2022/07/22/thats-where-it-gets-weird-the-best-comic-allegory-on-abortion-ever-n484609
– This NSFW argument on abortion from comedian Bill Burr takes the cake — almost literally, in fact. … Burr pronounces himself as “on the fence” on the issue of abortion, because both sides make sense to him. My body my choice? … is not the winning abortion message I would have predicted, but Burr makes it work brilliantly here.…
Newsom trolls SCOTUS: I dare you to strike down my gun law after upholding Texas' abortion bill
https://hotair.com/ed-morrissey/2022/07/22/newsom-trolls-sco…down-my-gun-law-after-upholding-texas-abortion-bill-n484588
– Gavin Newsom wanted to craft a gun-control bill similar to Texas’ SB8 that granted standing for any citizen to sue an abortion provider … Supreme Court a direct challenge at the confluence of gun and abortion rights as Gov. … of broadly accepted legal abortion existed in American history prior to Roe.…
District judge rules in favor of abortion clinics and against Louisiana's trigger law
https://hotair.com/karen-townsend/2022/07/22/district-judge…abortion-clinics-and-against-louisianas-trigger-law-n484511
– For now, abortion is legal in the state. … On Thursday, Judge Don Johnson ruled in favor of abortion providers who sued the state. Another state, another abortion ruling. … This is a win for the state’s abortion advocates who have been fighting the trigger law in order to keep abortion clinics open.…
Marquette poll: No real Roe change in midterms -- except to motivate Republicans
https://hotair.com/ed-morrissey/2022/07/22/marquette-poll-no…oe-change-in-midterms-except-to-motivate-republicans-n484474
– Did the Supreme Court change the midterm field in its Dobbs decision to overturn Roe and send abortion policy back to legislatures … Wade, which had established a right to an abortion. There has been much speculation that this June decision, in Dobbs v. … Attitudes on abortion haven’t changed at all, which shouldn’t surprise too many people.…
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