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Democrats Are Using Brett Kavanaugh’s Nomination as an Election Season Rallying Cry for Reproductive Rights

Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y., joins protesters objecting to President Donald Trump’s Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, at a rally in Washington, Wednesday, Aug. 1, 2018. J. Scott Applewhite/AP Photo Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Democrats are throwing their support and their advertising dollars into a vocal defense of abortion rights,…

The Trump Official Overseeing Migrant Girls’ Health Care Once Wrote He Couldn’t “Support Abortion for Any Reason”

Mother Jones illustration Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Scott Lloyd’s anti-abortion crusade began when, as a young man, he found himself faced with a partner’s unexpected pregnancy. Many years later, Lloyd would take his battle to the Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of Refugee Resettlement, where, as its leader…

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…