Abortion Rights Advocates See Harris as an Ideal Messenger
Vice President Harris has been a more direct and consistent messenger on abortion rights than President Biden.Morry Gash/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. On Sunday, abortion rights advocates got some rare good news. After President Joe Biden announced he would not seek reelection…
J.D. Vance Supported Using the Comstock Act to Criminalize “Mail-Order Abortions”
Sen. J.D. Vance has recently claimed he believes mifepristone should be accessible—but new reporting shows that just a year ago, he was one of more than 40 Republican lawmakers who thought the opposite.Maxppp/ZUMA Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. When former President Trump announced…
Here’s the Latest Example of How Conservatives Have Gamed State Supreme Courts to Restrict Abortion
Abortion-rights protesters wave signs and cheer at a rally in Des Moines, Iowa, in 2022.Charlie Neibergall/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. When the Iowa Supreme Court ruled in 2018 that abortion was a fundamental right to be protected under the most stringent level…
The DNC Just Launched Its First Paid Media Ad Against J.D. Vance
Former President Donald Trump named US Senator JD Vance (R-Ohio) as his Vice Presidential running mate on July 15, 2024 at the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Annabelle Gordon/CNP/ZUMA Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. Former President Donald Trump announced his selection of…
Anti-Abortion Firebrands Are Celebrating the Trump-Vance Ticket
Sen. J.D. Vance (R-Ohio) has railed against abortion, divorce, and people who don’t want to have children. Now, he’s Trump’s running mate.Annabelle Gordon/CNP/ZUMA Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. After former President Trump announced on Monday that he had picked Sen. J.D. Vance (R-Ohio)…
RNC Official: Nothing In Our Platform Says We Won’t Ban Abortion Nationwide
Ed Martin, president of the Phyllis Schlafly Eagles, a conservative political organization, is one of three people the RNC and the Trump campaign appointed to run the committee tasked with shaping the GOP platform.Al Drago/Getty Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. Last week, after…