It was no surprise that John Oliver began the show with the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade. But the folks at Last Week Tonight are better than just about anyone at finding infuriating illustrations of whatever horror is in the news, and tonight was no exception, because …
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In the days following the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, musicians and celebrities spanning from Taylor Swift and Jazmine Sullivan to Billie Eilish, John Legend, Kendrick Lamar, and more have used their platform both online and in-person to voice their disappointment and frustration with the reversal that …
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Although he signed into law a 2019 trigger law that would ban all abortions in Arkansas “except to save the life of a pregnant woman in a medical emergency” if Roe v. Wade is overturned, Republican Governor Asa Hutchinson claims he disagrees with the law’s lack of exemptions for victims …
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Reproductive rights are under siege after the leaking of a Supreme Court draft opinion threatening to overturn Roe v. Wade. Obtained by Politico on May 4, the 98-page draft opinion — written by Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito — reportedly has the majority support needed to overturn Roe. Should conservative …
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Back in 1966 — seven years before the Supreme Court decided Roe v. Wade — Mississippi was the first state in the nation to legalize abortion for victims of rape. Up until the early 1980s, when state legislators embarked on a campaign to shutter them via a series of increasingly …
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Amanda Shires is one of Nashville’s most celebrated singer-songwriters, winning widespread acclaim for such releases as 2018’s To the Sunset and last year’s debut from The Highwomen, the all-star group she founded with Brandi Carlile, Maren Morris, and Natalie Hemby.Last month, Shires released “The Problem,” a single recorded with her …
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A record number of women — mostly Democrats, many of them galvanized by the threat the Trump administration poses to reproductive freedom — were swept into Congress during in the 2018 midterm elections. The results were still being tabulated on Wednesday when Trump’s Department of Health and Human Services quietly …
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At a JW Marriott hotel a few blocks from the White House last January, Denise Burke, a cheerful-looking 52-year old woman with wispy blond hair and a lopsided smile, explained to attendees of the 2018 Evangelicals For Life conference exactly how she and her colleagues intended to make abortion illegal …
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