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President Joe Biden is expected to give a speech in Tampa, Florida, on Tuesday decrying the state’s six-week abortion restriction before it is set to go into effect. Biden will tie Florida’s abortion restriction to the 2024 presidential election and talk about “the stakes of this election for reproductive freedom across the entire country,” NBC News first reported. The president is expected to blame his opponent, former President Donald Trump, for Roe v. Wade being overturned in 2022 and for the wave of state restrictions in the wake of the ruling, including the recent Arizona Supreme Court decision upholding a...

Biden’s Pregnant Workers Fairness Act attempts to force all employers to cover abortionThe Biden administration announced a new rule that will force employers to cover abortion under the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act (PWFA), trampling upon religious liberty and conscience rights and furthering the White House’s aggressive abortion agenda.On Monday, April 15, Biden’s Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) announced the “Implementation of the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act.” The rule is over 400 pages and set to be published Friday, April 19.According to the summary of the Act, the government will require “a covered entity to provide reasonable accommodations to a qualified...

Governor Katie Hobbs (D-AZ) said Friday on ABC’s “The View” that women in her state will die because of the reinstated abortion ban from 1864. Hobbs said, “This is absolutely outrageous, and, you know, we can talk about how crazy it is that a law passed in 1864 by 27 men now controls the lives of millions of Arizona women, but I want to talk about the effect that’s going to have on women in our state.” She added, “I, myself, have personally experienced a miscarriage, losing a pregnancy by miscarriage and the treatment for that is a procedure that...

On Friday’s broadcast of HBO’s “Real Time,” host Bill Maher said that it’s wrong to argue that pro-life people are sexist, and pro-lifers believe abortion is “murder, and it kind of is. I’m just okay with that. I am. There [are] 8 billion people in the world, I’m sorry, we won’t miss you. That’s my position on that.” Provost of King’s College, Cambridge and Financial Times columnist Gillian Tett said that it’s odd that abortion is such a big political issue when there are other issues.

Fox News host Sean Hannity called on Arizona Democrats to nix an abortion ban that was reinstated by the state Supreme Court this week. On Tuesday, the high court reinstated a law that traces back to 1864 and was subsequently codified in 1901. It bans nearly all abortions except those that are needed to save the life of the mother. The decision supersedes Arizona’s 15-week abortion ban, though the state’s Democratic attorney general has said she will not enforce the “draconian” measure. The decision dropped a day after former President Donald Trump – who said it goes too far –...

Senator Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) said Tuesday on MSNBC’s “Andrea Mitchell Reports” that the election in November was about electing lawmakers “to codify Roe v. Wade into law.” Klobuchar said, “This all came out of Dobbs. We wouldn’t be having these arguments right now. This came out of Dobbs. We used to have protections for the women of this country. That was called Roe v. Wade. That Dobbs decision turned it on its head. now we are seeing a patchwork. If the judges went the other way on this, it wouldn’t just be states where abortion is banned, it would be...

"Donald Trump is weak and desperate-both as a man and a candidate for President. He spent the weekend golfing, the morning comparing himself to Jesus, and the afternoon lying about having money he definitely doesn't have. His campaign can't raise money, he is uninterested in campaigning outside his country club, and every time he opens his mouth, he pushes moderate and suburban voters away with his dangerous agenda. America deserves better than a feeble, confused, and tired Donald Trump."

Representative Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) said Sunday on MSNBC’s “Inside” that it was “clear” former President Donald Trump “is a grifter.” Host Jen Psaki said, “You’ve been ahead of the curve that Trump is a conman for a long time. The fact they want to pay his own legal bills despite claiming he is a billionaire feels like it’s an in-your-face example. I know your concern is not the Republican donors, but are they being duped? Pelosi said, “Well, I think it’s very clear that Trump is a grifter. That is the way it is. Integrity which is something we all...

Alaska Senator Lisa Murkowski has threatened to leave the Republican Party over the nomination of Donald Trump. Murkowski, who has long sought to undermine Trump and the wider conservative agenda, bemoaned the fact that he was once again the party’s nominee. “I wish that as Republicans, we had … a nominee that I could get behind,” Murkowski said in an interview with CNN. “I certainly can’t get behind Donald Trump.”

In a recent discussion with Atheist Alex O’Connor, Christian apologist William Lane Craig’s suggested that abortion is not bad for the babies, but rather confers a great good upon them. Frequently viewed as evangelicalism’s foremost Christian apologist, William Lane Craig’s name is most often associated with his ministry organization Reasonable Faith, the name of his most famous book and also weekly podcast. We last covered him after he made a number of startling claims about the origin of Adam and the nature of the bible, in our posts: Apologist William Craig Denies Genesis 1-11: Says Adam was Caveman that Lived...

Democrat Vice President Kamala Harris visited a Planned Parenthood abortion clinic in Minnesota this week, where she claimed that access to abortion is a “health crisis” and that “we have to be a nation that trusts women.” As Katie covered, Harris is the first sitting vice president of the United States to ever visit an abortion clinic. This was done as part of her national abortion rights tour leading up to the 2024 presidential election. “It is only right and fair that people have access to the healthcare they need. And that they have access to health care in an...

Singer Lily Allen appeared on the Radio Times podcast this week, where she claimed that her children have stopped her from having a successful career. “I never really had a strategy when it comes to career, but yes, my children ruined my career,” she told host Kelly-Anne Taylor. “I love them and they complete me, but in terms of pop-stardom, they totally ruined it.” Allen has two children from a previous marriage — daughters Ethel Mary, age 12, and Marnie Rose, age 11. Allen is currently married to “Stranger Things” star David Harbour. Allen went on to say that she...

Vice President Kamala Harris will visit an abortion clinic on Thursday, the first time a sitting veep has been known to do so. Harris is traveling to Minnesota as part of her “Fight for Reproductive Freedoms” tour, and is set to stop at a Planned Parenthood clinic that offers abortion services, NBC News and CNN reported. The VP is expected to meet with staff and patients as well as speak to reporters outside of the facility. Vice President Kamala Harris has been on a nationwide “Fight for Reproductive Freedoms” tour. 3 Vice President Kamala Harris has been on a nationwide...

PARIS (AP) – French President Emmanuel Macron has announced new legislation to legalize “aid in dying” that will allow adults facing end-of-life illness to take lethal medication, a first in the country. The move follows last year’s report indicating that most French citizens support legalizing end-of-life options. In an interview published Monday by French newspapers La Croix and Liberation, Macron said the new bill will be restricted to adults suffering from an incurable illness who are expected to die in the “short or middle-term” and who are suffering “intractable” physical or psychological pain. Macron said the law will offer “a...

Political commentator James Carville said Monday on MSNBC’s “Inside” that Democrats should “pummel” Republicans by running ads on “Nazi hags at school board meetings trying to ban Rosa Parks.” Carville said, “Democrats don’t lose elections anymore. We haven’t lost an election in the last year and a half. We have an advantage right now, and we need to pummel him right now. I used to have a saying when I ran campaigns: the more you pummel them, the more they plummet. We have to jump on this abortion issue. We have to jump on this book-burning issue. Run ads on...

Governor Gretchen Whitmer (D-MI) said Sunday on CNN’s “State of the Union” that “reproductive freedom” was at risk with the prospect of a second term of former President Donald Trump. Anchor Dana Bash said, “Let’s start with the question of IVF. Republicans are moving really quickly to distance themselves from that controversial Alabama Supreme Court IVF ruling. The Alabama’s attorney general says he has no intention of prosecuting families or IVF providers. Republicans across the country now, including former President Trump, have come out in support of protecting IVF treatments. Does that undercut the arguments by Democrats that Republicans are...

Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) said Friday on MSNBC’s “Alex Wagner Tonight” that Republicans want to control recreational sex and create a “patriarchal theocracy.” ... She added, “And going beyond that, they also want to control what they call recreational sex. Recreational sex! This is so clearly a patriarchal theocracy that has embodied itself in the DNA of an entire political party in the United States of America. And as women, and as any nonbinary and queer person in this country, they must be defeated. There should never be room for this kind of control by force over another person’s body...

President Biden told Democratic donors in California late Wednesday that he “served with real racists” during his decades in the US Senate — but Republicans in the 118th Congress “are worse.” “I’ve been a senator since ‘72. I’ve served with real racists. I’ve served with Strom Thurmond,” Biden said at an event in San Francisco, referring to the late segregationist senator from South Carolina. “I’ve served with all these guys that have set terrible records on race. But guess what? These guys [serving Republicans] are worse. These guys do not believe in basic democratic principles.”

On Monday, Maryland Governor Wes Moore announced more funding to advance abortion in the state. Totaling $15.6 million, the funding includes a $10.6 million grant for Maryland’s Abortion Care Clinical Training Program at the University of Maryland, Baltimore, and an additional $5 million budget proposal to increase Medicaid provider reimbursement for abortion. The Medicaid budget proposal will first need to be approved by both the House and Senate. According to Maryland Matters, the abortion training funding will be released by the Maryland Department of Health, which says it will be used to “initially conduct a statewide needs assessment to understand...

Governor Josh Shapiro (D-PA) said Sunday on ABC’s “This Week” that former President Donald Trump is an “agent of chaos who’s trying to restrict our freedom.” Partial transcript as follows: SHAPIRO: Joe Biden is going to be our nominee, and I’m proud to support him. He talks about being a bridge — and let me tell you something, he helped us repair that bridge on I-95 in 12 days. He was my partner in that, and he’s been a partner to many of us across the country in moving our country forward and saving our economy from ruin and helping...