Blanche’s testimony echoes the dangerous rhetoric of the anti-abortion leaders and groups.
This summer, Tennessee-based anti-abortion advocate Randall Terry made headlines after launching legislative campaigns in New Jersey and Hawaii. As Terry quickly learned, running two simultaneous congressional campaigns is illegal.
Jonathan Mitchell and anti-abortion leaders continue to show that the goal of the anti-abortion movement is not to stop abusers, but rather to stop abortion and limit reproductive freedoms more broadly – even if it means representing accused abusers.
On Mother’s Day, the Trump administration unveiled their Moms.gov with the blazing banner that promised, “Resources, Information, and Help for New and Expecting Mothers.”
Since women are, as Evie put it earlier this spring, “far smarter than the agendas being pushed on them,” we feel confident this guide will be more than enough to help them steer clear of the right-wing girl grift.
Women facing fertility challenges don’t need anti-abortion propaganda with a side of diet culture-style shame.
I also think there's so much mutual aid work, whether it's our students who are doing this on Catholic campuses, or also ourselves as a part of EC4DC, that are providing reproductive healthcare that folks often can't access within the formal medical system.
Existing research has proven the misoprostol-only method to be around 85-90% effective at ending a pregnancy.
The Foundation to Abolish Abortion, which has been sharing its pro-criminalization since 2022, has made it clear that they support the death penalty.
Students for Life and Kristan Hawkins have already publicly signaled their openness to criminalizing people who have abortions.
The FACE Act is a tool to address the serious problem of anti-abortion violence. It should not be repealed by Congress. Further, the FACE Act should not be weaponized to further the aims of authoritarianism.