President Trump Backs Megadonor Foster Friess for Wyoming Governor
Republican mega-donor Foster Friess at the 40th Annual Conservative Political Action Conference.Brooks Kraft LLC/Corbis/Getty Images Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Foster Friess, the Republican megadonor running for governor in Wyoming, has President Trump’s “complete and total Endorsement,” according to a tweet sent early Tuesday as polls opened in the state.…
Sen. Susan Collins Says Brett Kavanaugh Believes the Right to Abortion is Settled Law
Tom Williams/Associated Press Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Brett Kavanaugh believes that Roe v. Wade, the 1973 Supreme Court decision that legalized abortion nationwide, is “settled law,” Senator Susan Collins (R-ME) told reporters outside her office on Tuesday. Collins made the statement after a highly-anticipated meeting with Kavanaugh, who is President Trump’s…
The Promise and Peril of Vaginal “Rejuvenation”
champja/Getty Images Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. When Erika Sherek was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2016, she knew the road to recovery would be long and painful. Surgery and radiation therapy saved her life, but the treatment fundamentally changed her body. Because she stopped producing estrogen, the female sex…
Argentina’s Senate Votes to Reject Legal Abortion
Supporters of legal abortion comfort each other after senators rejected the bill.Eitan Abramovich/AFP/Getty Images Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. In a highly anticipated vote, Argentinian senators early Thursday rejected a bill that would have legalized abortion for pregnancies no further along than 14 weeks. The vote, which followed 16 hours of…
Inside the Surprisingly Difficult Fight for Reproductive Rights in One of the Bluest States
Education Images/UIG via Getty Images Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. When Edith Ajello, now a 13-term lawmaker in Rhode Island’s General Assembly, became pregnant in 1965, she was a college student in central Pennsylvania and abortion was illegal. It was eight years before the Supreme Court legalized abortion nationwide in Roe v. Wade,…
“This Is Devastating”: a Top Reproductive Health Researcher Talks About Kennedy’s Retirement
A large crowd on the sidewalk at the steps in front of the Supreme Court Building as the Court’s decision on Whole Woman’s Health v. Hellerstedt was about to be announced. Evan Golub/ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Now that Justice Anthony Kennedy has announced his retirement from the Supreme Court, vacating…