New Research Highlights the Limits of Abortion Bans
Out-of-state and self-managed abortions pose daunting challenges for pro-life legislators.
Out-of-state and self-managed abortions pose daunting challenges for pro-life legislators.
The report highlights the power and limits of state bans as well as the difficulty of measuring their impact.
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New data from the Public Religion Research Institute show a dramatic decline in Republican support for making abortion illegal in all cases. How this will effect voter behavior remains to be seen.
"It was a waiting game, the most horrific version of a staring contest: Whose life would end first? Mine, or my daughter's?"
The Constitution's commerce clause guarantees a domestic free trade zone. A state law that bars a resident from traveling to take advantage of another state’s economic activity would be unconstitutional.
Students for Life at George Mason University claims that another student organization defamed the group by criticizing its event that compared abortion to slavery and segregation.
Republicans turned off by Walker at least have a third option, but for House races in Georgia, state law makes it extremely difficult for third-party candidates to get on the ballot.
The policy, released this week, places unconstitutional prohibitions on faculty speech.
Justice Scalia, to the rescue.
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The problem is the Court's ultra-broad interpretation of Congress' power to regulate interstate commerce. But the justices might cut that back.
The senator's avowed devotion to federalism is no match for his political ambitions.
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The Republican senator improbably claims his bill is authorized by the 14th Amendment and the Commerce Clause.
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The Court's popularity has indeed fallen. But its relatively low approval ratings are neither unprecedented, nor worse than those of the other branches of government.
Republicans are losing ground in the wake of the Supreme Court overturning Roe v. Wade.
We already know what happens when governments try to impose prohibitions: messy, deadly black markets.
Some candidates, like Arizona's Blake Masters, have quietly removed abortion restriction initiatives from their campaign websites.
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People not only conceal their true beliefs, but often mouth opinions they don’t hold.
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Billboards remind state residents that controversial speech enjoys First Amendment protection.
The case shows the power given to judges when parental consent or notification is required for a minor's abortion.
We won't know the answer for some time. I suspect the drain will be relatively small, if we focus on abortion bans, as such. But it may get larger if anti-abortion laws end up having substantial negative side-effects on other activities.
We should be skeptical of some Democrats' newfound embrace of "freedom" until they abandon freedom-restricting policies.
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A mother-daughter arrest in Nebraska was fueled in part by unencrypted Facebook messages police accessed through a warrant.
The department claims that the ban, which provides no exceptions for medical emergencies, violates existing federal law.
An 1849 state law bans abortion in nearly all cases. The candidates disagree over whether it should be enforced.
Tampa top prosecutor Andrew Warren pledged to not prosecute women seeking abortions and those pursuing gender-affirming health care.
The amendment lost by a surprisingly wide margin in a state where Republicans far outnumber Democrats.
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The Supreme Court decision overturning Roe has made bad law and bad medicine
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The streaming platform has said gun- and abortion-related ads submitted by Democrats are too controversial to be aired.
Both laws seek to evade judicial review by delegating enforcement exclusively to private parties.
It's none of their business.
Republican voters disagree.
The New York Times misleadingly claims that cases like the abortion sought by a 10-year-old Ohio rape victim "are not as rare as people think."
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The FDA, and the Dalkon Shield scandal, deserve some of the blame.
Doing so would be blatantly unconstitutional.